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Symbols and Their Meanings: The Illustrated Guide to More Than 1, 000 Symbols - Their Traditional and Contemporary Significance
 
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Symbols and Their Meanings: The Illustrated Guide to More Than 1, 000 Symbols - Their Traditional and Contemporary Significance (Hardcover)

by Jack Tresidder (Author)
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Symbols are all around us: wedding rings, flags and logos are part of everyday life. We talk about olive branches, red cards and pearls of wisdom and we do symbolic things such as crossing a new baby's palm with silver or ringing in a New Year with bells. But some symbols, especially the ones extant in art and poetry, are less transparent and come from centuries-old traditions which pre-date widespread literacy. Animals, plants, patterns, natural phenomena such as rain, sun, colours and numbers, parts of the human body and man-made artefacts were made to stand symbolically and wordlessly in place of abstract ideas as visual or aural shorthand.

In the illustrated Symbols and their Meaning Jack Tresidder has readably unravelled the meaning of more than a thousand symbols. And it's fascinating that so many of them are global human symbols threading their cross-cultural way through different religions, nationalities and eras. "The hammer for instance was a symbol of male strength" Tresidder writes, pointing out its association with the Nordic god Thor and the Greek God Hephaestus (Vulcan to the Romans). To Freemasons it is an attribute of the Lodge master, symbolising creative intelligence, while in China and India a hammer signified the sovereign power to shape society.

Symbols and their meaning is full of intriguing nuggets for dippers. Did you know, for example, that amethyst meant sobriety to the Greeks? Or that emblems of lust include the ape, ass, basilisk, bear, boar, cat, centaur, cock, Devil, goat, hare, horse, leopard, Minotaur and witch? And consider the swastika (its name means "well being"--from Sanskrit) which was a happily positive ideogram representing cosmic dynamism before the Nazis got hold of it. The comprehensive index means that this fact-filled volume could also be used as a serious reference book for research purposes. --Susan Elkin

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