Snakes, religious and symbolical

In India not just they consider as one of their God and must be threaten nicely, but also snakes, a crawling creatures which are consider enemy on most of country in the worlds. And India traditional music to call and made snakes dancing is snake earrings.
Traditional earrings in the villages and tribal areas of India are manifestations of symbolism, religious meaning and social significance. A woman wears a particular type of earring as a sign of identity, of membership in the defined social group into which she was born. Wearing the specific earrings of her community, she continues the tradition of her ancestors.
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Animal Symbols, Pagans, and Arts

The seemingly now-separate categories of person and animal have never been stable, but medieval people lived in a shifty world of monsters, manifestations and muscaliets.
A law-breaking dog ‘confesses without torture’ and is hanged to deter other dogs from crime, a glacier is warned to desist its landslip activity and when it doesn’t is anathemized by the bishop, and a werewolf is arraigned but only in its human form.

Medieval people were commonly magical thinkers or, if you prefer, they lived within unstable cultural signs. They slipped easily between mental categories. For them a rose was not necessarily a rose even when its rose-ness seemed unarguable. Looking like a rose, smelling like a rose and behaving like a rose wasn’t enough. Roses did not merely stand in for other things, such as ‘love’ or ‘England’,—but could become other things.
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Symbols of Gluttony and Evil

Posted in Ancient, Animal, Arts, Symbols

Centuries ago, human used painting to represent some conditions. Just like egypt, Maya, etc, between good and bad, they’re using animals. So what do the following creatures symbolize in paintings means, lets find out more deeper.

1. The bat
The bat is generally known as a symbol for the night. Furthermore, in the West it is a symbol of evil and is associated with vampires. But in China it symbolizes good luck and longevity. Bats were considered by the early Christians to be “birds of the Devil” because of their association with darkness and their similarity to rats. Read the rest of this entry »