Symbolic and Symbols of the Spiral

Publié par Pascal M. le 07 avr. 2019

Tattoo Spiral Braided Rope

The Spiral is a figure very represented in the natural environment, as in the vegetable kingdom with the vine, or in the animal kingdom with the snail, the shells, etc ... It evokes the Evolution of a Force, of a State.

Spirale sur une coquille d'escargot sur une feuille avec une coccinelle

We find this figure in all cultures, and always loaded with symbolic meanings: "It is an Open and Optimistic motif, nothing is easier, when we left one end of this spiral, than 'reach the other end." (BRIL)

spirale de l'eau qui s'écoule

For (CHAS): "It manifests the appearance of the circular movement coming out of the original point, this movement, it maintains it and prolongs it to the Infinite, it is the type of endless lines which incessantly connect the two ends of the to become ... [The spiral is and symbolizes] emanation, extension, development, cyclical continuity but in progress, creative rotation. "

Spirale d'un cyclone vu depuis l'espace

For the Maya, the winter solstice is symbolically the zero moment of their cosmology, which spiraled for Symbol. This is the critical moment when it is necessary to ensure the "re-departure" of the annual cycle, without which it would be the end of the world, and under the terror provoked by this threat, we know the insane human sacrifices that the Aztecs practiced for give strength and blood to the Sun, so that he begins his race again.

Thank's to Jean Chevalier

et Alain Gheerbrant

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