In the alchemical tradition, the symbol of Mars is a graphic image of a circle with an arrow located at an angle of 45 degrees. The “symbol of Mars” was iron, which in medieval esotericism was inextricably linked with the “red planet” and the element of Fire. At the same time, Mars primordially embodied strength, aggression and militancy (in fact, Mars is the name ancient roman god wars), that is, purely “male” signs. That is why, over time, the symbol of Mars became the gender designation of the male (in a similar way, the symbol of Venus began to be used to designate the female, also coming from medieval alchemy, and getting into it from ancient mythology).
So the symbols of Venus and Mars from the alchemical environment moved into the category of universal gender emblems, which, in fact, is not surprising, given character traits attributed to the images of these planets. However, the mythological background of the symbols of Venus and Mars has much more value than it might seem. In particular, the symbol of Mars in its statutory inscription has its own characteristic name - "shield and spear of Mars." And here, in the literal sense, we mean the legendary weapon of the ancient Roman god of war.
However, in the concept of "shield and spear of Mars" only the concept of "shield" has a mythological meaning. That is, Mars (in the sense of god) was depicted with a spear (unlike, for example, the Greek Ares, who was sometimes armed with a sword). However, the spear here acted as an absolutely abstract male and military symbol, in which it is easy to see a phallic image. And there is no evidence that Mars had any special spear that could be classified as magical artifacts.
But the shield of Mars is a completely different image, which is sometimes called (not unreasonably) the symbol of Rome. The shield of Mars, called the ankil, according to legend, fell from the sky and landed exactly in the hands of King Numa Pompilius while his people were suffering from an epidemic of pestilence. Pompilius claimed that the fall of the ancil was accompanied by a loud voice that told the king that Rome would rule the world as long as the shield of Mars was in the hands of the Roman. Actually, at the official level, the shield of Mars was never a symbol of Rome, however, this myth was widely known at all times, therefore, in traditional Roman architecture, bas-reliefs and statues are often found that include a characteristic element - ankil, the shield of Mars (its image above).
There are two points of interest in this tradition associated with the shield of Mars. First, the etymology of the word "ankil" itself is not known. Secondly, by order of Pompilius, 11 copies of the original shield were made, and once a year, on the feast of the god of war, the servants of the cult of Mars carried these shields through the streets of Rome.
It is not known exactly when the phrase “spear and shield of Mars” appeared (although, for example, the origin of the concept “mirror of Venus”, denoting a female gender sign, is beyond doubt). At the same time, taking into account the features of the image of the god Mars in the form of statues and bas-reliefs (with an ankil and a spear), this combination looks quite logical. No less logical is the correlation of the desired symbol with the planet of the same name and the masculine principle, as such.
So the symbol of Mars, which arose in deep antiquity, experienced a “second birth” in the Middle Ages on the pages of alchemical treatises, and in the 20th century it became a generally accepted “male” sign. And it is very important that today we know well the true origin of this truly ancient and profound image. After all, if a culture uses emblematics, the essence of which it does not understand, then such a culture is worthless.
Which has a rich history and is even currently used as a designation for male and female principles.
From ancient times to the present day
Since ancient times, people have tried to reflect the feminine and masculine essence with the help of special symbols. It should be noted that such images were transmitted distinctive features genders, as well as their unity. The most common masculine and feminine signs include "Yin and Yang", as well as the symbolism of Mars and Venus. Each of them has its own history and designation.
The sign "Woman and Man" is the emblem of two completely opposite principles: this is the Moon, water and earth for the female essence, and the Sun, heat, fire for the male. The masculine principle symbolizes the creative, social and active principle, and the feminine symbol is the personification of a soft, passive force connected with nature.
Male and female signs
The first symbols of Mars and Venus appeared in the days of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The well-known and recognizable signs were taken from astrology, and they gained popular scientific fame thanks to the botanist Carl Linnaeus. Of course, he used them to indicate the sex of plants. Almost from that moment on, the symbol of a man and a woman began to be used as a sign of the sexes.
The symbols of the male and female principles are absolutely opposite, however, they have similar features. In their essence, they are in some way reminiscent of opposite types, such as life and death, up and down, moon and sun, earth and water, right and left, etc. They can be collected into a single whole and characterize the masculine principle as the south or east, the Sun and the landowner. Also, under this definition, the concepts are suitable: day, house, elder, strong, male. But the female essence will be the complete opposite - west and north, female, younger, weak, Moon, etc.
Mars and Venus
The symbol for Venus is shown as vicious circle with a cross pointing down. Sometimes there is another name - "mirror of Venus". This name was given to the symbol because of the external similarity. This sign represents beauty, femininity, warmth, care and love.
The male sign - the symbol of Mars - is the same closed circle, but with an arrow pointing skyward. If you imagine the dial, then the hand should point to two hours - this is a characteristic of the god of war. "Shield and spear of Mars" is another name for the male sign.
The combination of these two signs has several interpretations. First of all, it is worth noting one of the most common interpretations - this is the embodiment of heterosexuality, that is, love between representatives different sexes. It is worth noting that this symbolism is also used to denote bisexuality, only in this case the signs can be located in different ways (today there is no single designation).
An interesting fact: transsexuals also have their own symbols - the male and female sign overlap each other, forming a circle with a cross and an arrow. The connection between a male and a female sign does not have a clearly defined interpretation. So, this symbol can mean love, friendship, strong affection and passion.
Masculine and feminine in the Yin-Yang symbol
It says: almost everything in the world happens under the influence of the feminine and masculine principles. "Yin" is a female symbol, which is the personification of passivity and humility. The male sign - "Yang", in turn, acts from the standpoint of intensive development and activity. Laws can describe any phenomenon or event in nature, object or action, from the point of view of the male and female principles. The laws of "Yin-Yang" obey all living beings on the planet Earth, as well as heavenly bodies. For example, the signs of the zodiac begin with a male symbol, and then they alternate.
Gender beginning in the modern world
Most representatives of the strong and weak half of humanity fully share the ideas Chinese philosophy. For example, almost every man likes to demonstrate his superiority, remarkable strength, and even the smallest victory in the form of a repaired stool. Women, in turn, are distinguished by softness and beauty. developed intuition. However, in modern world Increasingly, there are women who have a strong and strong-willed character, that is, they are inherent in the features of the masculine principle. Or, on the contrary, the character of a man is distinguished by excessive softness and even cowardice. This, of course, individual characteristics which have developed under the influence of psychological traits of character and life circumstances. Nevertheless, the union in which the sign "Woman and Man" is harmoniously combined is considered the most successful and lasting.
Gender symbols
The symbols are masculine and have a variety of interpretations in different religions and cultures. Moreover, there are some not very common theories that offer a completely different interpretation of all recognizable signs. Nevertheless, circles with an arrow and a cross still remain characteristic and most famous. The sign "Woman and Man" is the simultaneous embodiment of difference and unity, between representatives of the opposite sex and a sign of their immediate essence. Gender symbols are simple signs that hide very deep meaning male and female essence.
Pythagoras: the world is built on the power of numbers. How the Zodiac works, we describe the structure of the zodiac and the world by numbers.
Structure of the Zodiac
One (from which all numbers can be obtained) is the number of the Creator Astrology leads us to the fact that the Creator rules this world. The unit to astrology is the Earth in the center of the world, the unit is us. The symbol of the Sun is a circle and a dot in the center, this is the symbol of the ancient Egyptians. The whole world is a circle, and in the center of the world is a dot of a person.
Two in astrology and in the structure of the world is the number of unity and struggle. But if there are two people, there is both attraction and repulsion between them, it can be used in a positive sense, as a symbol of human development. The stronger the attraction, the stronger the repulsion, from love to hate is one step.
Structure of the Zodiac: male and female signs
In nature, the deuce is represented by charges of opposite poles. Zodiac signs are also divided into two types: male and female. Male - all odd signs (Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius). Women's signs follow the male ones (Taurus. Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces). Men usurped the primacy of the world until they discovered the planet that turns everything upside down (Uranus).
The uranium of the United States, where the leading positions are occupied not by men, but by women. Male qualities- activity, female - passivity. Each person physically belongs to one of the sexes, but psychologically in the character of each person there is a masculine and feminine principle. The complexity of relationships between people is in the discrepancy between psychology and gender.
If this were not so, then all boys would be active and strong, and women passive and weak. However, there are women who will give odds to any man, and vice versa, men are hysterical and emotional. How much male and female is in each can be determined only by the horoscope
Structure of the Zodiac: crosses
Troika is three crosses of signs. The cross is a figure that has 4 points. Signs located opposite, 12 signs, 4 signs each in the cross. The first is cardinal, which includes the signs of the equinox (Aries, Libra) and the solstice (Cancer, Capricorn). Cardinal because in these signs 4 seasons begin. Spring is from Aries, summer is from Cancer, autumn is from Libra, and winter is from Capricorn.
The quality of this cross is energy, people who themselves want to dictate conditions have a cardinal character. The second cross is fixed. It includes the following cardinal signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius. All symbols of these signs are quite motionless - slow (except for Aquarius). The main quality of a fixed cross is will.
Will in Russian comes from volus - bull. The will compels us to continue. h then the first 4 began, if there is no will, what has been started will be lost. Here, too, there is a weather correspondence: fixed signs in terms of weather are the most stable periods of the season. The third cross is mutable (change) - the destruction of what was - Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces (almost all double).
End of season. The main quality of character is variability, flexibility, adaptability. Three stages of the development of the world: beginning, middle and end. This triple of crosses is answered by three indian god- Brahma or Brahma - the creator of the world, the second Vishnu - holds the world that Brahma created, the Third Shiva - the destroyer of the world.
By three crosses we will determine the character of a person and, ideally, there should be equal energy to start something, will to continue, and mutability to change, adapt.
The number 3 is based on space and time. Why the Trinity formed the basis of religion - space is three-dimensional, time is three-dimensional: sung, present, future Most processes on Earth have three stages: beginning, top, end. This applies only to bodily life, for our spiritual part there is no end, it must develop.
Structure of the Zodiac: 4 elements
Four in astrology. All the luminaries were created on the fourth day for omens, in order to determine the future by them, the luminaries were created for astrology. The four elements are the four basic principles of the Universe: Fire, Earth, Air and Water.
Water was introduced by the first scientist on the planet Thales of Miles (6th century BC). The main thing that he left behind is the beginning. He was absolutely right, we are 90% water. He is officially considered the first Greek scientist. He managed to predict a rich harvest of olives, he bought up all the oil presses, then he sold them at high prices, cunning (one of the seven legendary sages).
His disciple Anaximander, although he loved his teacher, said that everything is from the earth. He was right too. The third was named Anaximenes, he respected the previous ones, but said that everything was out of thin air, and he was also right. The fourth Heraclitus is all from fire, and he was also right. everything is from the sun. Two of his well-known wisdoms: you cannot step into the same river twice (the past cannot be corrected).
Everything flows and changes. The fifth was found, his name was Empedocles. He did not discover anything new, but he said: there is no need to argue, the world consists of 4 principles. He was overcome with pride. To hide his death, he threw himself into the volcano Etna, because. he told everyone that he was an alien and immortal.
The four principles are present in Zodiac signs: Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn), Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius), Water (Cancer. Scorpio. Pisces).
Structure of the Zodiac: element Fire
Fire is associated with energy, activity, initiative, a state of inspiration, excitement. Aries fire is the most powerful fire, physical work. muscles, fire fighting. Leo's fire is a cultivated fire, the fire of love and creativity. The fire of Sagittarius is the fire of the light of knowledge, enlightenment. They correspond to the plasma state of matter. fiery people burn.
Structure of the Zodiac: element Earth
The earth is everything material. The earth feeds. For the earth to feed, you need to work on it, practicality, practical work, materiality and solidity. Land is associated with material values. The Earth of Taurus is the Earth of direct work. Land of the Virgin - work with the harvest, sorting the harvest. The land of Capricorn is a dead Earth in winter, the rocks are peaks, there is no need to sow there, these are elevations, a way to make a career. The solid aggregate state of matter is associated with the Earth.
Structure of the Zodiac: element Air
Air is needed to communicate, it makes speech possible - the only thing that distinguishes man from animals. This is the element of information. The air of Gemini is the clouds of heaven, a variety of interests. The air of Libra is the air filled with perfumes, flowers, elite air, the air of smells, and the smell indicates where we are. The air of Aquarius is the air of ozone after a thunderstorm. Elements air corresponds gaseous state substances.
Structure of the Zodiac: element Water
Water is feelings. We constantly experience emotions and feelings. Three water signs are called silent signs. They are filled with emotions. Feelings are often compared to water. Love is like an ocean... The water of Cancer is the water of a domestic reservoir in which children bathe and fish. Scorpio water is geyser water or water on fire. The water of Pisces is a boundless ocean. The fourth law corresponds liquid state substances.
The four elements are reflected in the four states of matter. In the calendar, these are 4 seasons of the year, 4 weeks in a month. In arithmetic - 4 steps. In geography - 4 cardinal directions, 4 oceans. In biology - 4 chemical bases containing all of the DNA. In psychology - 4 types of temperament.
The first structure is each sign male or female. The second is the element. The third is crosses. The second structure absorbs the first structure, because all fiery and air signs- male, and earth and water - female. Three in the Zodiac - three crosses of the signs of the Zodiac. There are 12 signs of the Zodiac in total, there are 4 elements, 3 crosses with 4 signs in each.
Four elements - 4 types of temperament, 3 crosses 3 types of character The first cardinal cross: Aries - Libra, Cancer - Capricorn (cardinal signs); fixed, mutable.
Structure of the Zodiac: five planets
Five. 5 (five fingers), 5 planets of the seven, seven (septener) - these are 5 planets and two luminaries (two eyes). But there are 10 fingers. All the planets, with the exception of the luminaries, can move in two directions: in direct or directive D (from Aries to Taurus ...) and in retrograde or retrograde K (the planet stops and starts the reverse movement).
The fingers were divided into planets, rings with certain stones were put on in order to weaken the influence of a particular planet. Little finger - Mercury (symbol of prudence), nameless - Venus ( wedding ring, love), middle - Jupiter, index - Saturn, large - Mars.
Forefinger during the Inquisition, they painted on what needed to be burned. If Mercury is retrograde on your birthday, the left little finger works more. Right hand(only for right-handers) - directive planets, left retrograde.
Structure of the Zodiac: 6 pairs of signs
Signs of the Zodiac 12:6 pairs of male and female signs, 4 elements and 3 crosses. In total, a perfect circle of 12 characters is obtained. 360 degrees, each sign has 30 degrees. For the first time, the principle of equal distance was implemented by King Arthur, who had a round table and all the knights were equidistant from it. This is the ideal model of society.
But this will never happen on Earth, because. the people in the middle are the same. This is not in reality, but it is in heaven. Thanks to the circle, there are no bad and good signs. Of the 12 signs, all are equally good and equally bad.
Structure of the Zodiac: 12 signs
The number 12 is shown in history: 12 Caesars, 12 tribes old testament, in the New Testament 12 Apostles. Up in the sky 12 Zodiac constellations. There are 12 hours in a day during the day, 12 at night. There are 12 months in a year. The first number was the day of payment of debts and taxes, for selfish reasons the calendar starts on the 1st. 24 letters Greek alphabet, all stories in world literature can be reduced to 36 (Goethe calculated).
The most ancient symbols and signs that have come down to us from the depths of millennia are images, images and words that denote the stereotheistic pair of the Father-Creator, Mother-Matter (Great Mother) and their attributes
Masculinity
Bull - ox, Baal, Baal, Veles, Bel (god), bull, etc.
The bull as a large and strong animal with a powerful potency for people in pre-literate antiquity was the image (icon) of God the Creator who created the world, the First Ancestor
Perhaps the very word "god" goes back to some word that in ancient times had something to do with a bull.
The relationship of words can be direct - one word came from another or both go back to the same original word of one of the ancient languages or a single ancient proto-language. Kinship can be formed through folk etymology - randomly similar words are put in a single semantic series and eventually change as a result of interaction. Also, the similar sounding of words with a similar meaning may be random and have no relationship at all. Perhaps some of the consonances of the words below are random.
The phallus (faal, Baalos) is, along with the bull, another most common symbol of the Creator God.
Dad (possibly related to the word "phallus"), father, ata, father, etc.
Finger, phalanx
Mace (club, the main ancient weapon before the advent of swords)
White ("white", "baal") - light, shining, pure, divine, daytime
Big, great (“white”, “baal”) - large, strong, divine, horn And th, upper, high, heavenly
Visual and architectural symbols (images, iconography)
Phallic forms predominate
Menhirs and cromlechs
Hieroglyph Tien (sky, heaven). The word "tian" is possibly associated with the attribute of the male deity in the form of light, a bright, clear day. Therefore, the words "tian" and "day" are perhaps not just similar in sound, but related
Yang - light, white, clear, masculine
Obelisks (in the very word "obelisk" one can see the relationship with the words "white", "great"), steles
Irminsul
Pagan boobies (idols, idols)
Bread (Kulich) and pestles of mortars, in which flour was made from grain for baking bread
Labrys is an ancient exclusively cult instrument used for sacrifices. As military weapons labris was not used - it is extremely inconvenient and you can easily get hurt. Including the attribute of the minotaur (bull-man). Has inverted phallic symbolism. The Romans called labris the word "bipennis"
Hammer - an attribute of Thor (taura, tour - bull)
Thor (Taur - bull) and the serpent Jörmungandr
Light, day, sun are ancient male symbols, a number of which, taking into account the data modern science may continue quasars as the most powerful sources of light and energy in the universe. Thus, if we impose ancient ideas on modern knowledge, then "male" quasars oppose "female" black holes, which are hypertrophied mater ia with a gigantic mass.
Other symbols of the masculine: east (where the sun rises), sunrise (dawn, dawn), tree, adult male father, top - the direction of movement towards the sky, order, unity (written with a dash in Egypt, Babylon, Rome and other backgammon), etc.
The most important ancient symbol of the masculine divine principle is the horns as an attribute of a bull (associated with the Father-Creator), or another horned animal (deer, ram, goat, etc.).
In different localities different peoples animals that were used as an image (icon) of God the Creator were different. Perhaps the largest and strongest (great) horned animal was chosen. His horns were an attribute of the divine (male) principle
For example, the Celtic Cernunnos is depicted with deer horns, since giant deer lived in the territory of worship of this deity, which amazed people in antiquity with their size. Therefore, a giant deer was chosen as an image (icon) of a god, possibly God the Creator.
In ancient times, man modern type(Cro-Magnon) the use of large horned animals as ritual images prevails. For Neanderthals, in accordance with the interpretation of numerous archaeological data, the image of the deity was a cave bear (2 meters at the withers, 3 meters in length and up to 5 meters in height, if it stands on hind legs). In all likelihood, the cult of the bear passed from the Neanderthals to some Cro-Magnon peoples and is practiced in some places to this day, for example, among the Nivkhs. Teddy bears and the abundance of bear characters in fairy tales are a faint echo of this ancient cult.
Feminine
Paleolithic Venuses, female images in caves and some bone products have come down to us. Figurines made of wood or images on wood or other surfaces have not come down to us.
Drawing of the Neolithic sanctuary of the Ignatievskaya cave
To designate the feminine, people in ancient times used directly the image of female reproductive organs as well as masculine (numerous archaeological phallic artifacts) in the case of the masculine principle. But for the feminine principle, no established animal image was used, as in the case of a bull or other large, predominantly horned animal, to denote the masculine principle.
Words and images
Mother - Tiamat, Maat, Maha, Mokosh, etc.; mother - Nana, Inanna, etc.
Matter is that from which the spiritual masculine principle creates the world
Belit (goddess) - from the god Bel
earth (as mater iya), water (as mater and I). A modern extrapolation of this symbol could be black holes as supermassive, that is, beyond mater ial phenomena in the universe.
Animals and creatures
Serpent, serpent, dragon, sea (water) monsters and various mythical creatures having features of women and reptiles (Tiamat, Humbaba, Gorgon, mermaid, etc.). modern development this ancient symbol are the Reptilians (draconians) of Devil Ike, who are also invented based on the subconscious archetype of the feminine.
Owl and zoomorphic creatures with features of a bird and a woman (for example, with the body of a bird and the head of a woman - Sirin (siren)). The owl is one of the main symbols of Astarte, the Mediterranean analogue of the Great Mother (Mother-Matter) at the end of ancient times, when stereotheism had already completely degraded into polytheism, and the veneration of the feminine was overgrown with orgiastic and bloody cults.
Visual Symbols
Vulvar and uterine forms predominate, paired with male symbols.
Numerous vulvar forms of archaeological artifacts found together with phallic artifacts in the sites of ancient sanctuaries
Dolmens are paired menhirs. The ancient caves themselves and the passages in them, apparently, served as symbols of the feminine principle.
Passage in the Ignatievskaya cave
Dolmen from the inside
Roofless megalithic sanctuary in Malta
A later form of dolmens, mounds and mounds are pyramids, which were used throughout the territory of human habitation in antiquity. For example, in Egypt, the pyramids were used for the funeral rites of the rulers (pharaohs), who were considered the children of the gods. In Mesopotamia, pyramids (ziggurats) were used as an artificial elevation for the sanctuary, where sacrifices and orgiastic rites of interaction with the divine world took place. Numerous ancient pyramids-ziggurats are known in Asia and America.
The image of the cave as a symbol of the female principle (the bosom of the Great Mother) may be present in the Bible when describing the Nativity of Christ. Jesus was born in a cave with animals. It is possible that this is a direct prototype of the oldest Paleolithic cave sanctuaries, painted with drawings of animals.
Ankh - double jedu
Yoni - double lingam
Yin - paired yang
The entrance to the temple is a pair of columns. The temples were created on the principle of ancient caves and dolmens, the entrance to which and the passages inside which were associated with the feminine.
Matter is paired with the spirit; ring - paired with a finger; bottom - direction paired with the direction up; night - a steam room for the day; The Moon is paired with the Sun; the west (where the sun sets) is paired with the east (where the sun rises); sunrise (dawn) - steamy sunset; chaos - pair order; cold - steam heat; zero "0" paired with one "1"; mate matika (the science of measuring matter) - a pair of theology; other characters
Dragon (serpent)
The source of this symbol, apparently, was the bones of large dinosaurs that people found in the ground.
Since the earth was included in the area of female symbols of Mother-Matter, dragons and other (already non-fictional) reptiles became an attribute of the feminine. Serpent dragons are always fought by male gods or male heroes: Marduk and Tiamat (mother) in the form of a dragon, Gilgamesh and Humbaba (woman is a woman), Ra and Apep, Zeus and Typhon, Apollo and Python, Perseus and Gorgon, Perseus and a sea monster, Hercules (Hercules) and the Lernean Hydra, Jason and the dragon (guarding the fleece), Thor (Taur - bull) and the serpent Jörmungandr (gad), Beowulf and Grendel's mother, St. George and the serpent, Siegfried and Fafnir and other numerous snakes and snake fighters.
Marduk and Tiamat
Astarte (sister (wife) of Baal) and snakes. Modern animation
Marduk strikes Tiamat
Tiamat
Thor (Taur - bull) and the serpent Jörmungandr
St. George and the Serpent
Siegfried and Fafnir
Apollo and Python
Gilgamesh and Humbaba
The struggle of a male god or hero with a dragon symbolizes the struggle of the male spiritual light principle with the female material dark principle, and the victory of the first over the second. Thus, on the one hand, the victory of the spirit over matter, the spiritual over the material is stated, on the other hand, the divinity of the male characters is emphasized, because only those who have divine power can cope with such creatures that seemed to people, looking with awe at the bones of the ancients. gigantic lizards.
In the epic of various European peoples, dragons are associated with treasures (gold, gems), which are the most prominent expression and extreme symbol wealth and material wealth. Many fairy tales have retained the motive when the hero (male spiritual principle) defeats the dragon (female material principle), but, having taken possession of his treasures, turns into a dragon himself. That is, it degrades from (male) spirit into (female) matter.
The dragon is also associated with the dungeon and caves, which are feminine in material essence (matter - stone, earth) and in symbolism (a cave is the womb of a mountain).
Perhaps the meaning of the snake-dragon symbol goes even deeper. The word gad (reptile) is consonant with the name of the brother of Zeus and the ruler of the underworld of the dead Hades (Hades), with which the word "hell" is etymologically connected ( underworld eternal torment of sinners).
It is characteristic that the fire (male symbol) in the underground (female) world of the dead appeared relatively recently. For example, in Greek myths, the kingdom of Hades still lies in darkness and gloom, in which the shadows of dead people roam. Five rivers flow there (Leta, Styx, Acheron, Kokytos and Phlegeton), which means that in the absence of solar heat, it is cold and damp there. In other words, the Greeks actually painted the image mountain caves that served as sanctuaries to people in ancient times.
It is also possible that the ability of dragons to spit fire also arose relatively recently, and initially the water snake-dragons did not have the ability to spit fire, which is not a female, but a male symbol. For example, in the myth of Marduk and Tiamat, it is said that Marduk possessed fiery breath, and not the dragon-like snake Tiamat.
Adam, Eve and the Serpent
In the light of the above connections of ancient symbols, the biblical myth of Adam and Eve has a completely understandable reading. Adam (masculine) is defeated by the feminine (Eve and the serpent). God (the masculine principle) leads the defeated Adam, whose spirit has degraded, in which the material (feminine) principle has won, out of the spiritual paradise. Adam and Eve enter the material world. In order for a person (a descendant of Adam and Eve) to return to paradise, one must reject the material and strive for the spiritual principle.
Thus, the fall into sin is the victory of the material over the spiritual, and the return to God is the victory of the spiritual over the material.
God and Adam in the myth personify the masculine principle, and the serpent and Eve represent the feminine. Therefore, the iconography of Satan often includes female attributes and organs. Thus, the belonging of the category of Satan to the material (maternal) or female nature is emphasized.
From the folklore images more familiar to us, we can cite the example of Baba Yaga and the Serpent Gorynych. The attribute of Baba Yaga is a stupa (a mortar for grain is a female symbol), Serpent Gorynych (female symbols: a serpent, a mountain, a cave).
The modern myth about reptilians (draconians) within the framework of David Icke's conspiracy theory is also located within the ancient archetype of the confrontation between dragons and heroes. Evil reptilians are terrorizing people, and the world is waiting for the appearance of heroes who will free humanity from reptilian tyranny.
In addition to the reptilians, the modern extreme negative interpretation of the feminine is manifested in the cult of Santa Muerte, as well as in the ecofascism of Mother Earth.
Dollar symbol - snake on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
In the sign of dollars, the main international (global) money, the symbolism of the snake as the female principle (mother - mammon) and the tree of knowledge of good and evil fatal to Adam and Eve is also visible. For cabalists, this serpent is Lilith, which has as its source the ancient female Mesopotamian deity Belit (Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte) - the image of the most ancient pre-literate stereotheistic Great Mother.
Fire
Fire is among the few substances that move against the gravity of the earth. In addition to fire, smoke and steam move upwards, the root cause of which is also fire. In accordance with the role of fire in the ritual practices of sacrifices and burials, the descriptions of which have come down to us, people in ancient times perceived fire as a substance through which communication with the divine world is carried out.
Primitively speaking, fire sends something or someone from earth to heaven. Speaking more difficult language, fire transfers something from the material world of this world to the spiritual (divine) other world. Fire is ancient mail in one direction - from a person to the gods (spirits) or to God.
For example, the objects to be transferred (forwarded) can be plants, fruits, bread, livestock, or humans. During the times of polytheism, this ritual was brought to the point of absurdity, in particular by the Phoenicians, who sent the most precious thing to the gods: their children and the elderly. Jewish monotheism in Palestine and more humane (than Phoenician) Roman polytheism in the Mediterranean, as a result of centuries of struggle, put an end to Phoenician ritual lawlessness
Minotaur
Fire as a hot, dry, active and light substance is an attribute of the masculine principle. But after the terrible Mediterranean cults associated with sacrifices in fire were defeated, the fire takes on a negative connotation and symbolically passes to the “female half” - hell ( underground area the world of the dead) becomes fiery, and dragons have the ability to spew flames.
Apparently, the same fate befell the horns as a symbol of the divine. They, as an attribute of the Baal (bull), vile for monotheism, for which children were burned, and the Golden Calf (the same Baal), acquired a negative connotation. Now the horns are often perceived as a symbol of Satan, who opposes God. Horned is today one of the epithets of the enemy of God.
Lightning
Fire is associated with lightning, which comes from the sky and often creates fire on earth. Therefore, lightning is also a well-established attribute of male deities. Lightning is associated with electricity, which replaces modern people fire as a source of heat and light.
| male | Women's |
|---|---|
| Creator Father | Great Mother Matter |
| Male deities | female deities |
| Intangible, otherworldly world | Material world |
| Spirit, soul | Matter |
| Infinity, eternity | Time, limb |
| Life (eternity) | Death (limb, time) |
| Light (wave, non-material nature of light) | Darkness, darkness (without light, all material objects are located in darkness, darkness) |
| Lightning (light) | Rain, night (water, darkness, cloud) |
| Cloud (spirit, White color) | Cloud (water, darkness) |
| Day (light) | Night (darkness, darkness) |
| Clear day | Rain (water, cry, sadness) |
| Sun (light, day) | Moon (night) |
| Sky (air, spirit, soul) | Earth (matter, mother earth cheese - gives birth) |
| Fire (rises up, into the sky, light, heat) | Water (river, lake, sea, ocean) |
| Top (sky) | Down (earth, water) |
| Altitude (sky) | Depth (cave, darkness, earth, water) |
| Kingdom of Heaven (sky, light) | Hell (Hades, dungeon, cave, earth, water) |
| Joy (in material world Father-Creator everything is eternal - the joy of eternal life) | Sorrow, sadness, cry (in the material world of the Great Mother-Matter, everything has its end) |
| Courage, courage, confidence, omnipotence (joy, eternity) | Fright, despair, deceit, cunning (sadness, cry, limb) |
| Strength (omnipotence, eternity) | Weakness (limb) |
| Hardness (stone, strength, rock (outer firmament), mountain (peak)) | Softness (earth, water) |
| Heat (day, light, sun) | Cold (night, darkness, earth, water) |
| Top of the mountain (sky, top, height, warmth), altar to the Father-Creator, male deity | Mountain cave (depth, abyss, darkness, cold, humidity, water), altar to the Great Mother, to a female deity |
| top of the pyramid (top of the mountain) | Pyramid corridors (cave, death - tombs) |
| Omnipotence (potency) | Weakness (weakness, death) |
| Miracle, miracles, signs (omnipotence, eternity) | Witchcraft (night, darkness, deceit, cunning, death) |
| open knowledge, religion | Arcane occultism, gnosis (witchcraft, death (world of the dead)) |
| Religion (striving for the Father-Creator) | Materialism, atheism (denial of the Father-Creator, subconscious desire for peace and death - for the Great Mother-Matter) |
| Temperance (soul, spirit, confidence, fortitude) | Sexuality (body, matter, weakness of the spirit) |
| Talent (height) | Vulgarity (sexuality) |
| Mind, wisdom (eternity, power, infinity, strength, confidence) | Stupidity, cunning (finiteness, weakness, fright, uncertainty) |
| Truth (mind, wisdom) | Lies (stupidity, chaos) |
| Love (light, life) | Hatred (fear, cruelty, death) |
| Generosity (spirit, eternity) | Greed (matter) |
| Reality (true) | Illusion (deception) |
| Sobriety (light, clarity, truth, strength, reality) | Intoxication (illusion, deception, chaos, darkness) |
| Order (mind, light) | Chaos (darkness, stupidity) |
| Theology | Mate matika (knowledge about the dimension of matter) |
| Yan | yin |
| Power (order) | Anarchy (anarchy mother, chaos) |
| Generosity (eternity, omnipotence, certainty) | Cruelty, violence (fear, struggle for life, death) |
| Sacrifice of people (death, fear, cruelty) | |
| Animals, creatures | |
| Horns (male, up, bull, giant deer, mountain sheep) | |
| Bull (creator, creator, potency, father, horns) | cow (mother) |
| Cave bear, ordinary bear (strength, power) | |
| Giant deer, normal deer (strength, antlers) | |
| Owl (night, cry (hoot), fright, despair, secret) | |
| Serpent, snake (earth, water, cold-blooded, prey for owls) | |
| Water monster (water, snake, reptile, fish, cold) | |
| Dragon (serpent, fictional reptile, reptilians). Initially not fire-breathing (fire is a male symbol) | |
| Sirin, siren - a bird with a woman's head | |
| Ouroboros (serpent, snake biting its own tail, ring, vulvarity, death, emptiness, limb) | |
| Mermaids, kikimoras, water (water, cold, death, night) | |
| Phallic artifacts and elements of architecture (creator, creator, potency, top, sky, male genitals) | Vulvar artifacts and elements of architecture (mother, depth, darkness, female genital organs), images of female breasts |
| Below are the objects-symbols, which are characterized by phallicity (additional symbolism is indicated in brackets) | The following are symbol objects that are characterized by vulvarity (additional symbolism is indicated in brackets) |
| Menhirs (height) | Dolmens (cave, darkness) |
| Stele, obelisk, column (top, sky) | Entrance to the temple (cave, dolmen, depth) |
| Lingam | Yoni |
| trait | Circle |
| Unit (bar) | Zero (circle, circle) |
| Finger | Ring |
| Mace, sword, spear | Shield |
| Arrow | Target |
| Siege ram | Gate (city, castle) |
| 天 character Tian (sky, day) | 女 character Nu (female) |
| Jed | ankh |
| Irminsul | |
| Idols, boobies, idols | |
| Paleolithic Venus | |
| Bread (Kulich), pestles for grinding grain | Mortar for grinding grain |
| Labrys (bull) | Labyrinth (darkness, chaos, cave, death) |
| Hammer (for example, Thor (taura, tour, bull) | |
| Sacred metal that has both male and female symbols | |
| Gold (sun) | Gold (metal, cold, earth, softness, wealth) |
| Silver (white, sky) | Silver (metal, cold, earth, softness) |
| Money, coin (vulvarity, circle, cold, metal, material values, mammon (mother)) | |
| Male colors (sky, spirit, day, sun, fire, warmth) | Women's colors (night, darkness, earth, water) |
| White (sky, spirit, day) | Black (night, darkness) |
| Red (sun, fire, heat) | Green (ground, vegetation) |
| Yellow (sun, fire heat) | Blue (water) |
| Orange (sun, fire, heat) | Blue (water) |
| Purple (water) | |
| Modern interpretations | |
| Electricity (lightning) | Grounding (ground) |
| Quasar (light) | Black hole (heavy matter) |
Ancient symbols in the form of a mind map
Symbol of "Venus" is a female symbol, which is depicted as a circle with a cross pointing down. In its own way appearance this sign is somewhat reminiscent of the mirror of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and also personifies femininity.
Mars symbol is a male symbol, which consists of a circle representing arrows and a shield symbolizing a spear. 2 hours on the dial and denoted the courageous hero of the god of war Mars (Arrest).
The combination of these symbols represents several meanings and performances.
This sign Mars + Venus represents a heterosexual symbol and means love between two opposites, namely between a woman and a man.
IN Lately this symbol has gained immense popularity.
Another performance is when two male symbols are combined Mars + Mars which are meant to show homosexual relationships between men.
Sign Venus + Venus designate love between two women However, no certainty has come out of this kind of connections, confusion often arises, since this type of connection can mean both homosexual relationships and friendship between members of the same sex.
In order to designate bisexual relationship There are several interpretations, but they did not stop at anything specific.
Bisexuality, as a rule, is denoted by combining several symbols of the masculine and feminine principles in different sequences and quantities.
At transsexuals Unlike bisexual there are two strictly defined signs that are equally popular and have the same meaning.
first sign
looks like an overlay of two symbols of Mars and Venus, that is, one ring with a cross and a spear is drawn on the image.
Second sign
does not use the drawings of Venus and Mars, but their role is played by the symbol of Mercury.
The Ancient Greeks had an interesting tale about the origin of the sign of Mercury. When the god Hermes and Aphrodite had a child, they decided to give him a name by combining two of their own into one, thus their child was called Hermaphrodite. Then the gods commanded to merge the body of Hermaphrodite with the body of a beautiful nymph. Therefore, Hermaphrodite began to have signs of both sexes. This strange creature was assigned its own special sign, the symbol of Mercury.
If you try to analyze the image of the symbol of Mercury, you will notice that it contains crescent symbolizing masculinity, as well as the mirror of Venus symbolizing the feminine.
