Sentences with phrase «carried symbolic meaning»
Mirrors have long carried symbolic meaning, with strong associations to religion, cosmology, vanity, beauty, sex, death, magic and science.
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When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.
The inhibition of symbolic reference frees the conceptual element as exemplified in presentational immediacy from its exemplification in causal efficacy and thus frees the symbol to carry meanings other than those conveyed by the immediate past (ME 80; S 6, 83f).
But the traditions surrounding baby wearing go far beyond just carrying the baby close to a parent or caregiver; often, the actual carrier has a cultural and symbolic meaning.
He incorporates in his work the language of shapes, symbolic colors and motifs carrying a strong meaning.