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The secret language of symbols : a visual key to symbols and their meanings
- Title
- The secret language of symbols : a visual key to symbols and their meanings / by David Fontana.
- Author
- Fontana, David
- Publication
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1994.
- ©1993
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BF458 .F56 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 192 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Explores the web of culture, history, and psychology behind symbols and symbol systems.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 187) and index.
- Contents
- The Jungian view -- The archetypes -- Cultural perspectives -- The power of symbols -- Symbols in prehistory -- Gods and myths -- Ritual, magic and prayer -- Male and female -- Opposition and unity -- Cross-currents -- The uses of symbols -- Symbols in art -- The search for inner wisdom -- Dream symbols -- The world of symbols: a visual directory -- Shapes and colours -- Sacred geometry -- Mandalas and yantras -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Numbers and sounds -- Colours -- Objects -- Royalty, office and consecration -- War and peace -- Musical instruments -- Knots, cords and rings -- Buildings and monuments -- Animals -- Dragons and serpents -- Heraldic beasts -- Dogs and wolves -- Cats -- Birds and flight -- Fishes and shells -- Monkeys and elephants -- Sheep and goats -- Bulls, stags and bears -- Swine -- Lesser creatures -- Hybrid creatures -- The natural world -- Trees -- Flowers and plants -- Food and drink -- The elements -- Air -- Fire -- Water -- Earth -- Rainbows -- Thunder and lightning -- Day and night -- Jewels and precious metals -- Sun, moon and stars -- Human and spiritual symbols -- Sex and fertility -- Body, youth and age -- Good and evil -- Haloes, masks and shadows -- Gods and goddesses -- Witches, priests and wizards -- Heaven and hell -- Symbol systems -- Occult systems -- Alchemy -- The Kabbalah -- Astrology -- The tarot -- Tantra -- Chakras -- I Ching.
- ISBN
- 0811804623
- 9780811804622
- 0811804895
- 9780811804899
- LCCN
- 93010297
- OCLC
- ocm27895483
- 27895483
- SCSB-9594130
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library