Sentences with phrase «symbols of fertility»

As symbols of fertility, they were believed to bring good luck.

Manu Fico and the right John the Baptist, ancient pagan and Christian symbols of fertility and initiation, used here to spiritualise the matter of contemporary art.

Water and its constant flow, popular symbols of fertility and prosperity, reinforce the exhibition's primordial focus.

whether we do not worship other gods or not, we use the same symbolisms, like the egg and the bunny, pagan symbols of fertility.

The rabbit is a symbol of fertility.

The followers of H. P. Blavatsky recognized each other by an ancient Eastern symbol of fertility — the swastika.

Documentation reveals that the onion was worshiped for its spherical shape and was considered a symbol of fertility.

Historically, pomegranate has been a symbol of fertility.

Pomegranates No. 1 (2014) takes a symbol of fertility and abundance and represents it in a startlingly beautiful yet realistic, unadorned way.

In 2010, as part of a 3 - year project based around gender imbalance in India, drawing parallels between the cow — sacred animal and symbol of fertility — and her observance of the undervalued condition of India's women, Nourry created life - like figurative sculptures, the Holy Daughters, that were part sacred cow, part girl, in resin, placing them in the streets of New Delhi before stepping back to film the reactions of local men.

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All the other stuff about Easter (as a holiday), eggs, rabbits etc are directly stolen from pagan fertility symbols that are relevant to the return of earthly fecundity in the Spring.

Horned animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned animals seems to come from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes of human women, and the animals are usually associated with fertility and female symbols.

Eggs are symbols of «The Universe and the Great World Serpent» (i.e. the Goddess), and Rab bits are fertility symbols.

Try to find away to synthesize the Apis Bull (Golden Calf, symbol of pagan fertility, complete with Sun Disc / sun worship, Curved Horns / Crescent Moon worship, and serpent motif (Ureus).

13 Fertility symbols apparently adorned the temple in profusion (see I Kings 6:29) Around the outside of the temple side chambers were built, for what purpose we do not precisely know.

Ancient and worldly, almonds have appeared throughout civilization from antiquity to modern times, celebrated as a symbol of good luck, fertility and love.

The fig tree is a symbol of abundance, fertility and sweetness.

When I was researching for my homework assignment, I learned that the bread is really common around the holidays because the poppy flower is seen as a symbol of good fortune and fertility.

The boiling of a kid in its mother's milk was an ancient Canaanite fertility ritual which compounded the symbols of the baby kid with the mother's milk.

Olivia is Latin for, «olive tree», which may not seem too exotic, but olive trees were actually a symbol of peace and fertility.

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Around A.D. 1100, Emerson says, the elite of Cahokia seem to have co-opted or codified the fertility symbol, raising it to an unprecedented stature that became a kind of brand identity for the budding metropolis.

Long a symbol of life and fertility in Eastern cultures, the fig tree has now shown that its sexual prowess is tops in the plant kingdom, at least in one respect: It appears to hold the distance record for how far its pollen routinely travels to fertilize other fig trees.

In these cultures the fruit has been seen as a symbol of beauty, fertility, sensuality and strength since ancient times.

Throughout Asia, rice is a symbol of abundance, happiness and fertility.

Those expecting a display of fertility symbols, fetish objects, kinky clothing or sex aids down the ages...

Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and used as symbols of peace.

In 1517 a Spanish expedition led by Francisco Fernández de Córdoba arrived on the island, and found an abundance of clay figurines depicting women, most probably fertility symbols.

Brought to mind was the Venus of Wllendorf — the famous pre-historic figurine, interpreted as a fertility symbol, which has no face, just enormous breasts and vulva.

Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture: solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.

Ms. Moyer's work has been compared to that of abstract painters like Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski and Arthur Dove — but also to that of representational models like Georgia O'Keeffe, and her proto - feminist iconography, or ancient fertility symbols.

Tongue - in - cheek investigations of Herstory and Judy Chicago's «central core» imagery are playfully tweaked in large paintings that place abstracted fertility symbols within flat, poster - like landscapes worthy of a 1960s Supergraphic.

Note to Enrique Juncosa [Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art] Drawings concerned with fertility symbols.