#symbolism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #symbolism, aggregated by home.social.
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Behind the Scenes at Soulton Hall —
James D. Wenn on the code of the hall, the old altar stone from St. Paul's Cathedral, and the resting place of the relics of St. Erkenwald.
BBC Radio Shropshire August 2026
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Knowing sensitivity. The Faces of Sibilla ✨📖🌌
#poetry #symbolism #art #synchronicity #Sibilla #Sibyls #youtube #multimedia #youtubeshorts #healingart
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Rabbit,
Rabbit,
Rabbit:
I found 3 bunnies looking to the left (north) in the clouds before sunrise. I feel extra lucky today.
#photography #sunrise #clouds #landscape #symbolism #folklore #sky -
Views from the Peak 🌄🌅🐚
Visioni dal picco#poetry #painting #symbolism #nature #soulscapes #landscapes #stateofmind #multimedia #journeyreflection #youtube #youtubeshorts
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I hardly care about spoilers. I engage with #stories, to a large extent, in order to appreciate the craft, #symbolism, and #essence. Not really the plot per se. In light of this, to learn spoiler-ish information in advance sometimes is even helpful.
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Entering the Golden Hour ✨🧚♂️🌬️
Entrando nell'ora d'oro.
Tribute ti Elin Kleopatra Danielson Gambogi.
#poetry #nature #symbolism #lifejourney #goldenhour #mulmedia #youtubeshorts #youtube
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The Belgian producer Philippe Petit releases the new EP, United, on Ben Sims' Symbolism label. #music #PhilippePetit #united #symbolism
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"The Lonely Man on the Cliff," Pelle Swedlund, 1928.
Swedlund (1865-1947) was a Swedish artist known for his landscapes and cityscapes, especially of the Belgian city of Bruges.
Here he's taken us to a real place, Högklint, a dramatic limestone headland on the Swedish island of Gotland. A simple scene of a single figure standing atop the headland serves as a vehicle for the rich colors of the setting sun. The single figure has a downcast head, and the loneliness of the scene, and the setting sun, give it a strong melancholy air.
Swedlund had some success early on as an artist, and later became the curator of Stockholm's Thiel Gallery until just before his death.
From a private collection.
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Sibilla in the Sky with Diamonds 🪐🌌🌐
💫✨📜 #poetry #art #books #booktube #symbolism #synchronicity #multimedia #youtubeshorts #bookstodon #Sibyls
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From The Vessels of Hermes (ca. 1700).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b81b4f94-bf2b-49c9-93bb-635c07cbed8b
#watercolours #manuscripts #symbolism #alchemy #hermes #mythology #flora #esoteric #manuscript #art #publicdomain
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"Sun," Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, 1904.
Pellizza (1868-1907) was an Italian painter known for a highly individual style called "Divisionism," which was a sort of cousin to Pointillism (lots of itty bitty dots), only Divisionism had the dots grouped to color theory, so they formed actual patches of color.
Living almost entirely in Italy, he was educated in Rome and Florence, among other places, before returning to his home town of Volpedo, when he started adding "da Volpedo" to his signature.
He struggled for recognition all his life; many times his works were greeted with confusion and dismissal. He did manage an important sale in 1907 but then his wife died suddenly, plunging him into a deep depression that led to death by suicide.
After his passing, publication of his art in various Socialist magazines in Italy and elsewhere led to to recognition he was denied in life, and now critics recognize him as a significant artist.
From the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome.
#Art #GiuseppePellizzaDaVolpedo #Divisionism #Symbolism #Socialism #HereComesTheSun
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The Stellar #Lunarpunk #TTRPG can take its toll. We've been assigning #meaning & #symbolism to everything from numbers to letters of the alphabet. "L" means lose & when you get an 'L' typo, you bet it can feel like mockery! It's worse when it accidentally makes sense (because it's just a typo, it doesn't ACTUALLY mean anything) so we are trying (and failing) to retrain to think "L" is for "Love" or "Life" but mostly "Love" but it may be too late ;_;
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Suzanne Fabry💫
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One of the symbolic punishments for Masonic treatment speaks of a place where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours, and where historically traitors were left to nature's wrath for their crimes.
Two major stretches of water do not give this common movement of tides, the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Mexico.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #USA #treason #GulfOfMexico #Mediterranean #symbolism #ethics
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The Three Lions
There are few symbols in England more instantly recognisable than three golden lions marching proudly across a field of red.
Today they adorn football shirts, cricket caps and rugby jerseys. They are painted on pub signs, stamped on passports, embroidered onto military uniforms and waved from terraces whenever England dares to dream.
Millions sing Three Lions without ever stopping to ask a simple question.
Why three?
Why lions?
And why has this particular emblem survived almost nine centuries while kings, dynasties, empires and governments have all faded into history?
Like so many ancient symbols, the answer lies somewhere between history and mythology.
The lion itself had never roamed Britain. Wolves, bears and wild boar once stalked these islands, but lions existed only in stories carried home by pilgrims, crusaders and Roman writers. To medieval Europe, the lion represented everything a king was expected to be: courageous, just, noble, watchful and fierce.
Long before heraldry became an organised system, lions appeared throughout Christian art. Medieval bestiaries claimed that lion cubs were born dead before being brought to life by the breath of their father three days later. Whether believed literally or symbolically, the tale became an obvious parallel with the Resurrection of Christ. Lions were therefore not merely dangerous beasts; they were creatures associated with kingship, divine authority and eternal life.
It is hardly surprising that Europe’s rulers eagerly adopted them.
England’s relationship with lions began with the Norman kings. William the Conqueror himself probably bore no official coat of arms because heraldry had not yet fully developed, but by the twelfth century shields and banners had become increasingly important on crowded battlefields. Knights hidden beneath mail and helmets required instantly recognisable devices.
The first English royal lions seem to appear during the reign of Henry I. Henry married Matilda of Scotland, linking Norman and Anglo-Saxon royal bloodlines. Some historians believe one lion may have entered the royal family’s symbolism through this marriage, while another emerged through subsequent dynastic alliances.
Heraldry during this period was fluid, with symbols evolving rather than appearing fully formed. The decisive moment arrived with Henry’s son, Richard I.
Richard Plantagenet.
Richard the Lionheart.
Few English monarchs have acquired such legendary status. Ironically, Richard spent remarkably little time in England. He spoke French, regarded his continental possessions as more important than his English kingdom, and devoted much of his reign to warfare and the Crusades. Yet he became the king most closely associated with English courage.
Richard originally used seals depicting two lions passant guardant – walking with one forepaw raised while turning their faces towards the viewer. During his reign a third lion appeared, creating the royal arms that remain instantly recognisable today.
Whether Richard consciously chose three lions or inherited an evolving design remains debated by historians, but by the end of the twelfth century England possessed one of Europe’s most distinctive coats of arms. Three gold lions with blue claws and blue tongues, marching one above another upon a crimson shield.
In heraldic language the animals are not technically “lions” at all. They are described as lions passant guardant. Passant refers to the walking pose. Guardant means the head faces directly towards the observer. To medieval eyes this posture conveyed confidence rather than aggression. A rampant lion, rearing upon its hind legs, symbolised battle. A passant lion suggested calm authority – a ruler who possessed strength but had no need to prove it.
There may also have been another layer of symbolism. Throughout medieval Europe, the number three carried profound meaning. Three represented the Holy Trinity. Birth, life and death. Past, present and future. Faith, hope and charity. The symbolism would have been immediately understood by contemporary audiences. Whether Richard deliberately chose three lions because of religious symbolism remains uncertain, but medieval rulers rarely ignored such powerful associations.
Once adopted, the badge spread rapidly.Royal seals, coinage, castles, government documents,military banners. It became the visual signature of the English Crown.
As English armies marched across France during the Hundred Years’ War, three golden lions marched with them. The emblem flew above the armies of Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V. It fluttered above muddy battlefields at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, becoming associated not simply with monarchy but with English identity itself. Ironically, the badge survived periods when the monarchy itself seemed close to collapse.
During the Wars of the Roses, rival claimants fought beneath variations of royal heraldry. Under the Tudors, dragons, roses and portcullises joined the royal display, yet the three lions remained.
When James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne in 1603, the royal arms expanded dramatically. Scotland’s rampant lion and Ireland’s golden harp joined the shield, yet England’s three lions retained their place.
Empires rose. Empires fell. The lions remained.
One reason for their remarkable survival maybe lies in what they came to represent. Originally they belonged solely to the king. Gradually they became the property of the nation.The shift happened slowly over centuries. The English Civil War challenged royal authority. The Industrial Revolution transformed society. The British Empire reshaped Britain’s place in the world. Yet somehow the ancient lions adapted, and by the nineteenth century they had become less a symbol of monarchy than of England itself.
Then came football.
In 1863, when the Football Association sought an emblem, it turned naturally towards the ancient royal arms. The modern FA crest retained the three lions while adding Tudor roses between them. Few sporting badges possess such extraordinary ancestry. Every England football shirt carries a design whose origins stretch back to the Crusades. Every chant echoes nearly nine hundred years of history. Every major tournament briefly reconnects modern England with a medieval kingdom.
Of course, symbolism rarely remains fixed. To Victorian imperialists the lions represented national destiny. During the World Wars they became symbols of resilience. For football supporters they came to embody hope, frustration and stubborn optimism in equal measure.
The song Three Lions, first released during the European Championships in 1996, captured something far older than football itself. “It’s coming home” resonated not simply because the game originated in England, but because the badge itself already felt timeless. The lions seemed to belong to history rather than any particular generation.
Yet there is another, older way of looking at them.
Folklore often blurs the line between animal and guardian. Across Britain, churches possess spectral black dogs, castles harbour ghostly ravens and forests boast white stags. England’s lions occupy a similar symbolic space. Not literal creatures. Guardians. Sentinels. Beasts that exist not in the countryside but in the collective imagination of a nation.They have watched Norman knights become Tudor courtiers, Georgian soldiers become Victorian industrialists, and factory workers become football fans. They have witnessed plague, civil war, empire, Blitz, victory and defeat. Kings have died beneath them. Queens have ruled beneath them. Governments have come and gone. The lions simply continue their silent march.
Unlike flags, or borders, which shift. Unlike politicians, who disappear into history. The three lions remain reassuringly constant. Almost nine hundred years after Richard the Lionheart’s reign, children still draw them in school exercise books. Soldiers still wear them into battle. Sportsmen still carry them onto the world’s biggest stages.
Most never think about where they came from.But perhaps they should because hidden inside those three ancient beasts lies the story of England itself. And it’s a story of crusaders and kings, of heralds and holy symbolism, of battlefields and belief, of history transformed into legend.
And that is one of the greatest mysteries of all.
Not that three lions came to symbolise England.
But that, after nearly nine centuries, England still instinctively recognises them as its own.
#BritishHistory #castles #chivalry #ChristianSymbolism #coatOfArms #Crusades #England #EnglandFootball #EnglishFolklore #EnglishFootball #EnglishHistory #EnglishIdentity #EnglishMonarchy #Folklore #FootballAssociation #HenryI #HenryII #heraldicLions #heraldry #historyOfEngland #knights #lionSymbolism #medievalBestiary #medievalEngland #medievalHistory #medievalKings #medievalSymbolism #nationalSymbols #NormanEngland #passantGuardant #Plantagenets #RichardI #RichardTheLionheart #royalArms #royalHeraldry #royalHistory #StGeorge #symbolism #ThreeLions #ThreeLionsEmblem -
Modern World Needs Older Myths
People think atheists want to erase faith and leave behind a void but atheists actually want to fill that space with human connection and a deeper appreciation for the world. To reject the supernatural is to scrub the world clean of ghosts, ghouls, monsters and gods, leaving behind a landscape governed entirely by verifiable and quantifiable data. Or that's what we're told. But this is a misunderstanding. You do not need to believe in the literal existence of a village deity or a cosmic […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/modern-world-needs-older-myths/
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The Kintsugi Man
A Story Told In Tanka Form
Once I was broken,
#AndrogynousFigure #BeautyFromAshes #BeautyInBrokenness #Brokenness #ChristianReflection #ContemporaryPoetry #CyberpunkSpirituality #DigitalArt #divineMercy #Faith #FaithAndArt #FreeVersePoetry #FutureHumanity #futuristicArt #GodSGrace #GodSLove #GoldenCracks #Grace #Healing #Hope #HumanAndMachine #InspirationalPoetry #Kintsugi #KintsugiSoul #lightAndShadow #Mercy #newCreation #Redemption #restoration #resurrection #SacredScars #SacredTechnology #ScarsAndHealing #ScienceFictionArt #SoulLight #spiritualFormation #spiritualGrowth #SpiritualPoetry #Symbolism #TheGreatArtist #TheReluctantCyborg #Transformation #visualPoetry #wholeness #woundedHealer
a man of many pieces,
cracked beyond repair,
so many tiny places
scattered like leaves in the wind.
Healing was a dream.
Restoration was elusive.
Much of me was lost.
I could not find the missing,
my eyes dry from the seeking.
Then mercy found me.
The Great Artist touched my heart,
gathered me to me,
glued the pieces one by one
until I was whole again.
Why do the cracks show?
My question rose to the sky.
The scars are ugly.
Must they remain forever?
I wondered if I was healed.
Wait, you gently said.
Dipping your finger in gold,
your love traced the scars.
beauty in my brokenness.
The cracks let the soul's light out. -
It's fun to be both Catholic and queer.
:ablobpride1:
#rainbow #prideMonth #GmundnerKeramik #religioussymbolism #symbolism #prism
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From Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century (1882).
Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9e11814b-ce52-497a-a726-bc29439b1f64
#symbolism #chapbooks #skeletons #trumpets #hourglasses #spades #art #publicdomain
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Barriers
Central Ohio
©2008 WickedLizzie#WickedLizzie #Art #DisabledPhotographer ©2008 WickedLizzie #ArchitecturalPhotography #UrbanGeometry #NightPhotography #LowAngleShot #ModernArchitecture #Skyscraper #Monolithic #LightAndShadow #LinesAndPatterns #Cityscape #HostileArchitecture #AccessibilityFail #UrbanObservation #RedDoors #ChurchArchitecture #StreetPhotography #FoundArt #Symbolism #StructuralExclusion #VisualIrony #OhioPhotographer #VintageDress #WeddingDress #DressShop
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If symbols train attention and memory, who shapes the symbols we follow today, and why do we trust them? #Occult #Symbols #HiddenKnowledge #Hermeticism #SacredNumbers #Platonism #Neoplatonism #Renaissance #Baroque #History #Philosophy #Curiosity #Symbolism #Design #Ethics
https://medium.com/@skmohindroo9/occult-symbols-and-the-minds-that-drew-them-8cf134eb3303 -
#TikTok Shop Showed Me Search Suggestions for Products With #Nazi #Symbolism
Even after TikTok removed #swastika #jewelry from its online shop, I was #algorithmically nudged toward a web of Nazi-related products during searches, like “double lightning bolt” and “ss” necklaces.
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From Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century (1882).
Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9e11814b-ce52-497a-a726-bc29439b1f64
#symbolism #chapbooks #skeletons #trumpets #hourglasses #spades #art #publicdomain
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Fox & Thistle Studio is blasting into 1999 technology with an RSS Feed.
Follow our monthly newsletter the Liminal, with your favorite feed reader!
https://griefngravy.github.io/liminal-rss-feed/liminal-rssUpload.xml
#foxandthistle #TheLiminal #rss #rssfeed #almanac #sustainability #upcycling #creativewriting #monthly #moonphases #lunarcalendar #vintage #cooking #symbolism #americana #folklore #microbusiness #indie
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Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919)
Evelyn De Morgan (30 Aug 1855 – 2 May 1919) was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. via Wikipedia #PalianSHOWhttps://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/evelyn-de-morgan/
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Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919)
Evelyn De Morgan (30 Aug 1855 – 2 May 1919) was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. via Wikipedia #PalianSHOWhttps://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/evelyn-de-morgan/
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Can YOU decipher the Eight Sifillitic Virtues?
#tarot #tarotcard #tarotreadings #tarotcards #book #books #zine #zines #90s #vcr #vhs #symbols #symbology #symbolism #illustration #illustrationart #bookboost #indieauthor #vulvar #bookstodon #bookstAdon #soda #chunks #fart
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When Freemasons Call You ‘Profane’—The Arrogance They Can’t See
https://youtu.be/zupM4De8afQ
#Freemasonry #MasonicWisdom #MasonicTeachings #EsotericKnowledge #ManlyPHall #AlbertPike #OccultKnowledge #HiddenTruths #SecretSocieties #MysterySchools #TruthSeeker #SpiritualAwakening #Enlightenment #Philosophy #Symbolism #TheGreatWork #ForbiddenKnowledge #MindControl #Gnosticism #HiddenAgenda #EgoTrap #CriticalThinking #Hypocrisy #SelfReflection -
As the holiday season approaches, many adults face a familiar question: How do we navigate the Santa Clause tradition without compromising honesty or wonder? 🎅✨
#MargaretMead #SantaClause #ChildhoodWonder #Symbolism #MythVsReality #HolidayTraditions #CriticalThinking
https://robert.winter.ink/preserving-a-little-magic-in-a-rational-world/
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https://specstories.substack.com/p/figures-of-speech
These #RhetoricalDevices add color and vividness to written or spoken words, making them more engaging and memorable.
#Similes #Metaphors #Personification #Hyperbole #Onomatopoeia #Alliteration #Symbolism #Irony #Oxymoron #Allegory#speculativeencounters #writingcommunity #substack #writersofinstagram #stories #plotting #storytelling #writingcommunity