The picture has usually symbolic, magic, and mystic substances and meanings. It has also lot of meanings and there could be found psychoanalysis’s echo. Symbol isn’t precise, forces to think and it’s reserved for those who think and want do this.
So, agate since antiquity was priced and expensive stone. It used to be a medical and aphrodisiac also a stone protecting from bed weather, snakes bites and bed glance. Scientist Adamus Lonicerus thought that rich drew of lines on agates causes that this stone put on head of sleep person assures variety dream. Jean de Mandeville considered that agate gave its owner readiness and gift of pronunciation. Pseudo Albertus Magnus wrote (1581) that agate with black lines helps to fix damages, “and it gives power to heart and assures people strength and everybody’s goodwill and helps to conquer adversities”.
Pebble is a symbol of purity and brightness, that’s why it is often a symbol of spirit and consolidation between spirit and matter.
Gold is a symbol of invariability, ever lasting, perfection, recognition, love, heaven light. It’s also a quintessence of earth goods. It’s attachment to world or avarice. So, it’s pure light of heaven but also idolatry like in case of golden calf. Carl Gustaw Jung saw Golden Fleece, steeling by Jazon and other Argonauts as a symbol of purposes.
Flowers are happiness and Vanitas and vanishing, moment of sadness. Each flower has its own meaning and symbolism same like each color and bloom.
| home |
| fascinations |
| illuminations |
| destructions |
| iryses |
| about |