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The Penguin Reference – Dictionary of SymbolsAuthors: Jean ChevalierAlain GheerbrantTranslator – John Buchanan-BrownBook Description: PDF – 1184 pages scanned, OCRed & bookmarked.Symbols are central to literature, religion and national identity, but they are also at the heart of our inner dream-worlds, a potent source of insight into our unconscious minds. This remarkable dictionary explores the huge variety of interpretations – sexual and spiritual, official and subversive, analytical and emotional – different cultures have given to the fundamental symbols of mankind.* Compiled by an international team of 15 experts, bringing together the insights of theologians and travel writers, philosophers and psychotherapists, classicists, astrologers and art critics* Acacias, Bats, Centaurs and Dolphins: the rich symbolism of animals, birds, fish, plants – and legendary creatures* The meanings which have become attached, all over the world, to colours, instruments, numbers, precious stones and parts of the body* Essay-length entries on seminal symbols such as the Cavern, the Cross and the Crossroads, the Serpent, the Soul and the Sphere* Central figures from the Bible, antiquity and the mythologies of East and West The web page for this book is at:http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,978014051254…This book took some time to finish, soPlease keep this a elib exclusive, thanks.Thanks to ddelias for requesting this book.For Power Users & Above.Thanks, Mazen