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6 Famous Symbols That Don't Mean What You Think

6 Famous Symbols That Don't Mean What You Think
The entire point of using a symbol is that it conveys meaning and saves space -- you see one picture of a stick figure in a dress and you no longer need the phrase "This is the place where female humans can discharge waste." But what is fascinating is that sometimes the meaning of a symbol will get lost to history, but we'll just keep right on using it anyway. But would we do that if we knew ... Note: Did you know that Cracked used to be a magazine? #6. Kevin Jaako Apart from the cross, the most ubiquitous symbol of Christianity is the ichthys, known to us as the Jesus Fish, and today it appears predominantly in its natural habitat -- car bumpers. Getty"Seriously, guys? The Origin: It's a vagina. Jezebel / Wikipedia New Starbucks Haddockuccino, served in a vulva cup! According to some researchers, Christians adopted the vagina-fish symbol simply because of how common it was, but later looked for all sorts of non-vaginal justifications for it. GettyOr sex. #5. Getty thehairpinSo yeah. #4. Related:  Simboli

UNIVERSITÉ DU SYMBOLE : Dédale e Icare L’organisation psychique de l’homme s’enracine aujourd’hui encore dans le vieux fond mythologique gréco-romain. Ainsi en est-il du mythe d’Icare, cet adolescent qui incarna la fougue et l’utopie de la jeunesse pour, finalement, se brûler les ailes en tentant d’atteindre un inaccessible soleil. Or, en ces temps de bouleversements intenses, nous avons besoin des visionnaires icariens pour la mise en route d’un nouveau monde. C’est dans cet esprit que nous allons revisiter cette histoire plurimillénaire : afin d’évaluer les conditions de réussite du jeune homme, ainsi que les pièges et les dangers qu’il rencontre nécessairement dans son aspiration à s’élever vers une nouvelle lumière. Mais commençons par rappeler les grandes lignes de l’histoire. Il y a très longtemps, Minos régnait sur la grande île de Crète. Dédale se rend donc à la convocation de la reine. La solution au problème, Minos va la demander une fois encore à Dédale. Reprenons un à un les éléments constitutifs du mythe.

Johan Kruger | Paper Models – Set 1 Paper models designed to be cut out and assembled. They were free downloads aimed at the Miniature Wargaming community. 9mm-13mm. These are quite old, my latest paper model can be seen here: 3D Paper Monster You can download some of the paper models here: Village Models: Apothecary shoppe, Blacksmith, Gate House, Guard House, Prancing Pony Inn, Watch Tower War Models: War Tents, Lothlorien Tree Outpost, Guard Tower, Skull Gate, Edoras City Gate

Le culte du vent chez les Indo-Européens | Albert Carnoy Il y a quelques ressemblances entre les dieux du vent et ceux du feu. Tous deux sont changeants, insaisissables, tous deux sont inspirateurs et bons artisans. De même qu’on lisait l’avenir dans le foyer, on le devinait dans la chanson des vents. De même que les flammes de l’âtre sont des âmes, le vent emporte les âmes à travers l’espace. D’autre part, le vent est le compagnon de l’orage et des eaux. Tels sont les caractères que l’on rencontre chez les dieux du vent et chez les divinités, soit issues des génies du vent, soit contaminées avec eux. Dans l’Inde, il est Vâyu ou Vâta (mots tirés de la même racine que le néerl. waaien, «venter»), l’inséparable compagnon d’Indra et de Parjanya. Rudra et les Maruts A côté de lui il y a les Maruts et il y a Rudra. Rudra réunit en lui la plupart des traits des Maruts. Il est impossible de ne pas être frappé par l’existence de nombreux traits communs entre Rudra et le dieu grec Apollon, sous sa forme la plus ancienne. Les Muses, déesses du vent Wodan

Jag skrattade när jag såg den här hunden i kyrkan. Tills jag såg varför han var där. Mitt hjärta krossades. Det hör inte direkt till vanligheten att se en söt hund vara med på mässan varje söndag. Men Tommy är ingen vanlig hund. I den lilla staden San Donaci i Italien går hunden Tommy nästan varje dag till kyrkan och är med på mässan. Han sitter längst fram vid altaret och under hela mässan. Hunden Tommy är 7 år gammal och tillhörde Maria Margherita Lochi, 57 år. Mrs. Nu har hela byn adopterat Tommy och människorna i byn ger honom mat och kärlek varje dag. Gilla gärna Gurragillar om du gillade det här: Gilla Gurra Gillar? Klicka gilla här så du inte missar något.

Síla na Géige - Sheela na Gig and Sacred Space Síla na Géige is the Cailleach as Creator. She is the Hag of the winds and of winter, the Old Woman who lives in the stones. She is Sheelah with her branch, who strikes the ground with her stick to make the earth freeze, who washes her plaid in the whirlpool of Coire Bhreacain to bring the snow that covers the land. She is the crux point on the edge between life and death, between death and rebirth. She helps women give birth, and when it is time to die, she opens the door to the next world. Sheela (Irish: Síle) means Hag. The more obscure, Old Irish spelling, Síla means "cause or origin" and "both the seed and the ground in which it is planted." The Irish and Gaelic Cailleach also means Hag. As weather spirits, she and the Cailleachan raise the winds and bring storms as well as the change of seasons. At the spring equinox in Ireland, the rising sun illuminates the inner chamber at Sliabh na Caillí (Loughcrew), Ireland. The Hag overlooking the sea.

51 pretty shocking facts that make things harder for every woman you have ever met. Laci Green: The rumors are true. What they've been saying about me. I have to come clean. I, Lacey Green, am a feminist. What? I'm a feminist because I was told the first time I had sex it would be painful and bloody. I'm a feminist because male orgasm in the movies is rated PG-13, while female orgasm is rated R. By the time the average woman reaches sixty years old, she will have made four hundred and fifty thousand dollars less than a man in the same exact position. Nevermind the fact that it was most likely a woman who pushed your body out of her vagina. I'm a feminist because representation, it matters! I'm a feminist because in every corner of the world, every day, women's bodies are used as a battleground in wars started by men. Male Voice: ...if they were coming out of my mouth. Laci Green: Most of all, I'm a feminist because I believe in gender equality. There may be small errors in this transcript.

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5 Successful People Who Everyone Forgets Are Exposed Frauds Making a career out of ripping people off takes a special kind of asshole. But to make a career out of defrauding the general public, get exposed as a fraud, and then keep right on defrauding people as if nothing ever happened takes a special kind of asshole with balls of industrial steel. Either that, or a sociopathic lack of self-awareness. Here are five people who just can't stop making shit up (and are inexplicably rewarded for it). #5. Ed and Lorraine Warren Warner Bros. Hey, have you noticed how some recent haunted house movies have advertised themselves as being based on a true story? Warner Bros. That's Ed and Lorraine Warren, who've made a half-century's worth of headlines as honest to goodness ghostbusters -- not so much the wisecracking Bill Murray kind as the shit-your-pants spider-walking Exorcist kind. HyperionPixels/iStock/Getty ImagesEven their website is possessed by the ghost of GeoCities. The Fraud: Where Are They Now? Hollywood loves the Warrens. #4. Where Is He Now?

Progressive Punctuation 5 Childhood-Ruining Appearances from Famous Characters There comes a moment in the life of every child when you find out your parents are just people: Maybe you saw your dad getting intoxicated, or being racist, or committing mass murder. Nobody's perfect, is our point. As we've covered once before, this includes your favorite childhood characters, because for every pop culture icon, there's at least one obscure episode where they can be seen doing exactly the things we just mentioned. For example ... #6. Popeye Straight-Up Shoots a Dude in the Head King Features When he's not pimping fried chicken and weight-gain supplements or weaning children onto a cancer-ridden tobacco-smoking life with candy cigarettes, Popeye seems like a pretty cool guy. King FeaturesHis achievements are an inspiration to grossly deformed people everywhere. The problem is, when a character has been around for as long as Popeye, he's bound to have some skeletons in his closet (mostly super racist ones). King FeaturesAlways a fun way to start a kids' cartoon. #5. #4.

What Is an Ideogram? Definition and Examples An ideogram is a graphic picture or symbol (such as @ or %) that represents a thing or an idea without expressing the sounds that form its name. Also called ideograph. The use of ideograms is called ideography. Some ideograms says Enn Otts, "are comprehensible only by prior knowledge of their convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and therefore may also be described as pictograms, or pictographs" (Decoding Theoryspeak, 2011). EtymologyFrom the Greek, "idea" + "written" "“[T]he picture [of a finger pointing] is an ideogram; it does not represent a sequence of sounds, but rather a concept that can be expressed in English in various ways: 'go that way' or 'in this direction' or 'over there' or, combined with words or other ideograms, such notions as 'the stairs are to the right' or 'pick up your luggage at that place.' Pronunciation: ID-eh-o-gram

Locus Online – posts from Locus Magazine » Locus Bestsellers, August Recent releases dominated the hardcover list with Skin Game by Jim Butcher (a Dresden Files novel) taking the top spot, followed by Mirror Sight, the fifth book in Kristen Britain’s Green Rider series. L.E. Modesitt, Jr.’s Cyador’s Heirs (Tor) was the new runner-up, with 49 titles nominated, up from 43 last month. On the mass-market list, titles by George R.R. Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice remains first on the trade paperback list for the second month in a row, with Authority by Jeff VanderMeer and Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire tied for second place. William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher claimed the number one spot for a third month, with Jeff Mariotte’s Star Trek: Serpents in the Garden at number two. Forgotten Realms dominated the gaming-related list, taking all five spots. Compiled with data from Bakka-Phoenix Books (Canada), Barnes & Noble (USA), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (2 in Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Toadstool (2 in NH), Uncle Hugo’s (MN),

Animal Totems and Animal Symbolism Animal totems play huge roles in our lives. They aid in self-discovery and capture our imagination, giving us incredible avenues of self-expression and awareness. Additionally, they assist in understanding our past, and if we are attentive, our animal totems can reveal glimpses of our future. Webster's Dictionary defines a totem as: "A natural object, usually an animal that serves as a distinctive, often venerated emblem or symbol. A means of personal or spiritual identity." Native American animal totems most commonly come to mind when discussing this topic. Since time immemorial, animals have served as harbingers of personality traits we, as humans, all aspire to achieve. Animals afford us visions of how our lives could be if we lived more simply and lived with purity of thought and emotion. By focusing on the attributes of our totems, we internalize these traits and thus begin to externalize the very character we absorb from our totems. Earth Animal Totems Water Animal Totems Insect Totems

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