A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Aboriginal art
Aborigines
Abraham
abstract symbolism
acacia tree
acanthus
Achilles
acqueduct
Adad
Adam
Adonis
Aeolus
Aesculapius
afterlife
afterworld circular levels
afterworld Egyptian beliefs
Age of Aquarius
Agni
agriculturalrituals
agriculture
Ahriman
Ahura Mazda
Ainu people
air
air element
air Father divinities
air Zodiac signs
Akbarnama
Al Mahab architecture
Aladdin
Albertus Magnus
alchemic symbolism of mercury
alchemy
alchemy Chinese circles and squares
alchemy Chinese female principle
alchemy Chinese gold
alchemy Chinese male principle
alchemy Chinese numbers
alchemy Secret Fire
alchemy union
Aleutian Islands
Aleutian Islands death masks
Algonquin people
all roads lead to Rome
Allah
Allegory of Good Government
alligator
almonds
almonds and semen
Alphonse Louis Constant
altars
Amaltheia
Amamet
amaranth
Amaterasu
amber
amethyst
Amida
Amitabha
Amman Citadel
Amun-Ra
Ananta
ancestor worship
ancestral spirits
ancestral symbolism
anchors
anemone
Angel of Death
angels
angels in art
Anger
Anglo-Saxon England national emblems
animals
animals and rebirth
animist symbolism
ankh
Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
antelope
anti-Semitism
antlers
antlers and shamanism
Antony of Padua
Anubis
Apep and sun the boar and sun dragons and sun
apes and monkeys
Aphrodite
Apis bull
Apocalypse
Apollo
Apotheosis of Homer
apple of the Hesperides
apples
Apsu
Aquarius
arabesque symbols
archangel Michael and Final Judgement
Archangel Raphael
archangel Raphael and children
Archangels
arches
archetypes
architecture
architecture of Buddhism
ardour
Ares
Argus
Aries
Aristotle
ark of Noah
Ark of the Covenant
ark symbolism
arrows
arrows and shamanism
art
art and Buddhism
art and iconography of Egypt
artefacts
Artemis
Artemis and childbirth
Artio
Ascension of Christ
ascent
Ascent
Ascenticism
asceticism and Shiva
Asphodel
aspiration
asses
Asshur
associated symbols of Christ
Astarte
astral symbolism
astrology
astronomy
Athene
Athene and Zeus
atman
atonement of Christ
atonement rituals
Attis
Augean stables
auguries
aureole
Aurora
Australian Aborigines
Austrian Empire national emblems
authority
autumn
Avalokiteshvara
Avarice
axe
axial symbolism
Aztec Codex
Aztecs butterfly symbols
Aztecs corn gods
Aztecs sun cults
Ba
Baal
Babylon
Bacchu
Bacchus
bad luck
Balder
bamboo
bamboo and music
baptism
baptism of Christ
baptism rituals
baptismal fonts
barley
basilisks
Bast
Bastet
bats
bats and death
battle between good and evil
battle goddesses
Bau
bay tree
beans
beards
bears
beauty
bees
beetle
Behemoth
beliefs about divinity
beliefs about Heaven
beliefs about Hell
Bellerophon
bells
bells and marriage
bells and tongue
belly
belts
Benares
Benu bird
Beowulf
Berne
Berserkers
Bes
bhakti yoga
birch tree
birch trees and shamanism
birching of witches
birdman
birds
birth of Christ
birth of gods
birth of Venus
birth-death-rebirth cycle
Bishop of Myra
black
Black Virgin icons
Blarney Stone
blood
blood and fertility
blood of bulls
blood symbolism
blue
boars
boars sacrifices
boats
Bodhisattvas
Bodhisattvas and lotus
body
bones
Book of the Revelation
Books of the Dead
Boreas
Borneo ‘pole’ figures
bows
bows and sexual symbolism
bracelet
Brahma
Brahmins
branches
bread
bread and sacrifices
breath
brevity of life
bridal jewels
bridge
bridge of souls
Britannia
bronze
bronze serpents
brooms
brooms and witches
Buddha
Buddha as a lion
Buddhist symbols
buffalo
bulls
bulls and resurrection
bulls sacrifices
burial
burial masks and souls
butterfly
Byzantium
Cabbalism
Cabbalism and numerology
Cabbalism and the Tarot
Cabbalism images
caduceus
calendar
calmness
calumet and union
calumets
calumets and prayer
Calypso’s island
camellia
Canaan
Cancer
candles
canopies
Capricorn
Capricornus
caps
caps of wizards
Carl Gustav Jung
carp
carpet patterns
carpets
Carthage
castles
Castor
catastrophes
Catherine of Aragon
cats
cats and Buddhism
cats and djins
cats and evil
cats and fertility
cauldron
cauldrons and magic
cauldrons and punishment
cauldrons and trials
caves
caves and dragons
caves and Hell
caves and souls
caves and underworld
cedar
cedar and power
celestial symbolism
centaurs
Central American calendar
centre
Cerberus
Ceres
Cernunnos
Chac
chakras
Chalchiuhtlicue
chalice
chameleon
chaos
chariot of Venus
chariots
Charity
Charity a fundamental of Islam
Charity and flames
Charlemagne
charms against evil
charms against sterility
Chartres cathedral
Chartres cathedral maze
Chastity
Cherokee masks
cherry
Cherubim
chestnuts
childbirth
childbirth rituals
children
children as symbols
Chimera
China national emblems
Chinese calendar
Chinese New Year
Chinese theatre
Chinese Zodiac
Chi-Roh emblem
Chiron
choirs of Angels
Chokwe Dance mask
Chou dynasty
Chou dynasty emblem
Christ and Final Judgement
Christ as Messiah
Christ as Saviour
Christ in art
Christ in the Cabbalah
Christ in the wilderness
Christ the Redeemer
Christ’s conquest of death
Christ’s crucifixion
Christian funerary monograms
Christian rituals
Christian virtue
Christianity
Christianity priesthood
Christianity rituals
Christianity Sabbath day
Christmas
Christmas tree
chrysanthemum
Church
Church and alchemy
Church symbols
Cihuacoatl
circle
circular vaults
circumcision
circumcision and sacrifices
circumnambulation
circumnambulation and Buddhism
circumnambulation rituals
citron
cleansing rituals
Cleopatra
cloak
clothes
clouds
club
Clytemnestra
cobras
cocks
cocks and witches
coins
coins in divinatory systems
colour green and Venus
colours
colours of confirmation
columbine
communication with the gods
completion
concealment
concept of evil
concept of good and evil in Christianity
concepts of good and evil
conch
cones
confirmation
conflict
Confucian perfection
Confucius
conjugal interdependence
conquest of evil
constancy
Constantine the Great
constellations
contemplation
continuity
copper
Coptic Church
corn
cornucopia
coronations
cosmic egg
cosmic energy
cosmic harmony
cosmic power
cosmic serpent
cosmic symbolism
cosmic tree
cosmic wheel
cosmic windows
cosmos
courage
cowardice
cows
cows and Buddhism
cows and Hinduism
coyote
crabs
cranes
creation
creation and destruction
creation beliefs
creation zodiacal significance
creative energy
creative power
creativity
creator divinities
cremation
crescents
Crete
Crete bull beliefs
crocodile
Crocodopolis
Cronos
crops
cross
cross of St. Andrew
crown of Virgin Mary
crowns
crowns and sacrifices
crows
crows and evil
crozier
Crusades
crutches
crystals
crystals and shamanism
cube
culture hero
culture heroes
cunning
Cupid
cupolas
cups
curative symbols
curatives
Cybele
cypress tree
Dagda
Daikoku
Dalai Lama
Damocles
Dana
dance
dance and magic
dance and theatre
dance of death
dance rituals
dancer symbols
danger
Daniel
Daphne
darkness
Dawn
Day of Atonement
death
Death
Death in art
death ships
decans
deceit
deer
Delphi
Delphi cult of Apollo
Delphi priestesses
Demeter
demonic symbolism
demonic symbolism hair
demons
depression
destiny
destruction
destructive energy
devotion
dew
diamond sceptre
diamond throne symbol
diamonds
Diana
dignity
Diodorus
Dionysian rituals
Dionysius of Syracuse
Dionysus
disease
disembowelment
disembowelment rituals
disks
disks as weapons
dismemberment
divination
divine archer
divine authority
divine energy
divine gardener
divine nature of Christ
divine power
divine providence
divine revelation
divine semen
divine smiths
divine wrath
divinity
divinity and light
divinity of kings
djed pole
djins
DNA double helix
dogs
dogs and healing
dogs sacrifices
dolphin emblem and Venus
dolphins
domes
Dominicans
dominion of Christ
donkeys
Donn
Dorje
double-headed eagles
doves
dragon dances
dragons
dragons and earth
dragons and evil
dragons and fertility
dragons and rain
dragons and thunder
dragons and underworld
dragons and water
drama
dreams
Druidic rituals
Druids
Druids colours
‘Druid’s foot’ sign
Druids rituals
Druids teaching on death
drums
drums and thunder
Dryads
duality
ducks
durability
Durga
Ea
eagles
eagles and evil
earth
earth as element
earth goddesses
earth symbolism
earth Zodiac signs
earthly life
earthly power
earthquakes
East
Easter
Easter Island
Easter Island sculptures
Echidna
Echo
eclipses
ecology
Eden
Edfou
Edfou ankh motif
effigies of tutelary gods
egg symbolism
eggs
eggs a symbol of resurrection
eggs and sexual symbolism
Egypt
Egypt afterlife beliefs
Egypt astrology
Egypt cosmogony
Egypt creation myth
Egypt funerary art
Egypt funerary practices
Egypt solar mythology
Egyptian beliefs
Egyptian calendar
Egyptian funerary rites
eight
Eight Auspicious Signs
Eight Precious Things
El Dorado
elements
elephants
elephants and fertility
elephants supporting the earth
eleven
Elijah
Eliphaz Levi
elixir
Elixir
elixir of life
Elysian fields
embalming
emblem of Han dynasty
emblems of power
emerald
Emperor
energy
England national emblems
enlightenment
Envy
Eos
ephemerality of life and Buddhism
ephemerality of life and Hinduism
Epic of Gilgamesh
equilibrium
Erichthonius
ermine
Eros
Estonia national emblems
eternal
eternal life
eternity
ether
ether as element
Etteila and the Tarot
Eucharist
Eugene Delacroix
Eusebius
Evangelists
Eve
evening star
evening star and Venus
evil
evil colours
evil eye
evil spirits
evolution
evolution of mankind
Excalibur
exorcism of demons
Ezekiel
Ezekiel’s visions of God
fairies
fairy rings
Faith
faithfulness
falcons
falcons and Incas
fallen angels
fame
familiars
family
fasces
fasting
fate
Fates
Father Christmas
Father divinities
Father divinities and lightning
father symbols
Father Time
Fatima
Feast of Weeks
feather
fecundity
feet
feet of Buddha
Feng-Huang bird
Fenris
fern frond patterns
fern fronds
fertility
fertility cults
fertility dances
fertility rites
festival of Hilaria
fidelity
fifty
fig leaves
fig tree
fig trees and Buddhism
fig trees and sexual symbolism
Final Judgement
Finn mac Cumhaill
fire
fire and Father divinities
fire and ice
fire and union
fire element
fire sticks of Agni
fire symbolism
fire worship
fire worship rituals
fire Zodiac signs
fish
fish and Buddha
fish and childbirth
fish and sexual symbolism
Fisherman’s Ring
five
flagellation
flags
flags use of symbolism
flails
flames
flaming heart
fleur-de-lis
flood stories
flower vase
flowers
flowers and Buddha
flowers and funerary rites
flowers and life
flute
fly whisk
flying saucers
food
food as sexual symbol
food of the gods
food of the Sabbath
forbidden food
foresight
forest spirits
forests
Fortitude
fortune
fortune-telling
forty
Fountain of Knowledge
Fountain of Youth
fountains
four
four horsemen of the Apocalypse
four winds
Four Worlds
foxes
Fra Angelico
France national emblems
Franciscan friars
Francisco de Goya
frankincense
freedom
Freemasonry
Freemasonry regalia
Freya
friendship
frogs
frogs and magic
frogs and resurrection
frogs and toads and rain
frogs and water
fruits
Fujiyama
funeral dances
funeral mounds
funerary art Egyptian
funerary customs
funerary emblems
funerary memorials
funerary monograms
funerary objects
funerary rites
Gabriel
Gaia
Gamma cross
Ganesha
Ganga
Ganges and underworld
Ganges River
gardens
gardens and Virgin Mary
Garuda
Gate of Heaven
Ge
geese
geese sacrifices
Gemini
gemstones
Genghis Khan
gentleness
germination
giants in creation myth
giants supporting the earth
gifts of Magi
gingko tree
Giotto
girdles
girdles and sexual symbolism
globes
glove
Gluttony
gnana yoga
Gnosticism
Gnosticism mystic star
goats
goats and sexual symbolism
‘Goat’s foot’ sign
God
god of silence
God speaks to Job
goddesses
goddesses and colour green
gods
gods of love
gods of the elements
gods of underworld
gods of victory
gods of war
gold
golden apple
Golden Calf
Golgotha
good and evil
Gorgons
Gorgons and evil
grace
Graces
grain
grapevine
graphics and patterns
Great Mother
Great Spirit
greed
Greek theatre
green
Green Dragon
Green Lion
Green Man
griffin
Griinewald
guardian cobra
guardians
guidance and guides
Gustav Klimt
Hadad
Hades
Hair
hair and chastity
hair and souls
hakas
hallucinogens
halos
hammer
Han dynasty
hands
hands talismans
Hanuman
Hanuman and healing
happiness
Happy Isles
hares
harmony
harmony of the spheres
Harpies
harvest moon
harvests
Hathor
hawks
hawthorn
hazel and rain
hazel tree
head
headdress
healing
healing amulets
healing plants
health
heart
Heaven
heavens
heavens ruled by Shiva
Hebrew Tabernacle
Hecate
Heket
Helen of Troy
Heliopolis
Helios
heliotrope
Hell
helmet
Henry VIII
Hephaestus
Hera
Herakles
Herakles and Augean stables
Herakles and the Nemean lion
Hercules
heresies
Hermes
Hermetic magic
Hermetic science
Hermetic science and magic
Herod Antipas
Herodotus
heroes
herons
Hesiod
Hesperides
hexagram
hexagrams and exorcism
hieroglyphics
hieroglyphics use of symbols
Hieronymus Bosch
High Priest’s breastplate
Hilaria
Hinduism
Hinduism castes
Hinduism fasting
Hinduism ideas of heaven
holes
holly
Holy City
Holy Ghost
Holy Grail
Holy Roman Empire national emblems
Holy Spirit
homeopathic medicine
honey
honey and immortals
honour
hooded cobras
hope
Hope
Hope and wine
Hopi
Hopi creation myth
Horn of Plenty
horned moon
horoscopes
horses
horses and funerary rites
horses sacrifices
horseshoes
Horus
hospitality
hourglass
Huehueteotl
Hugin and Munin
Huitzilopochtli
human sacrifice
human sacrifice and Aztecs
human sacrifice and sun
human sacrifices
humanity of Christ
Humbaba
humility
humility of Christ
humours
hunter goddesses
hunting
hybrid beasts
Hydra
Hypnos
I Ching
ibises
ice
ice and fire
ichthus
ideas of heaven
idolatry
ignorance
ikebana
illness
illumination
illusion
Ilyap’a
Immaculate Conception
immaculate conception of Virgin Mary
immortality
immortals
immutability
Inca priests rituals
Incarnation of Christ
Incas
Incas and gold
Incas rituals
Incas sun cults
Incas three deities
incense
incorruptibility
INDEX
Indra
infinity
initiation
initiation ceremonies
initiation rituals
inner realization
innocence
integrity
intellect
intelligence
intestines
Inuit
Inuit culture heroes
invincible power
invocation of rain
invocation of thunder
Ireland national emblems
iris
iron
iron and evil
Iroquois False Face society
Isaiah
Isenheim altarpiece
Ishtar
Isis
Islam
Islam circumnambulation
Islam colour symbolism
Islam concept of good and evil
Islam crowing cock
Islam fasting
Islam five fundamentals
Islam ideas of heaven
Islam number symbolism
Islam Sabbath day
Islam use of whips
Islam view of wine
Islam washings
islands
Islands of the Blessed Chinese myth
Islands of the Blessed Greek myth
Israel
Israel in the wilderness
Israel national emblems
Israel twelve tribes
Israel union with Judah
Israfil
ivory
ivory and Virgin Mary
Izanagi
jackal
jackals and evil
Jacob
jade
jade and sexual symbolism
jaguars
jaguars and earth
jaguars and moon
jaguars and Tezcatlipoca
Jainism
James
James son of Zebedee
Jan Brueghel
Japan national emblems
Japanese theatre
jealousy
Jean-Auguste Ingres
Jehovah
Jerusalem
Jesus
jewels
jewels and dragons
jewels and healing
jewels and union
jewels talismans
Job
John the Baptist
Jonah
Jonah and the whale
Joseph
Joseph of Arimathea
joss-sticks
joy
Judah
Judah union with Israel
Judaism concept of good and evil
Judaism numbers
Judaism Sabbath day
judgement
Judgement of Christ
judicial power
Jungian archetypes
Juno
Jupiter
justice
ka
Kaaba
Kahukara
Kali
Kalki
Kalki incarnation of Vishnu
karakiri
karma yoga
Khensu
Khepri
King David
King of France
King of Israel
King of Phrygia
king of Sparta
kings
kings as male principle
knights
knights of the Round Table
knives
Knossos
knots
knots and union
knots and Venus
knots and weather
knowledge
Krishna
kundalini
Kunlun
Kunlun World Mountain
Kwakiutl people
Kwakiutl people headdress
labyrinth patterns
labyrinths and Tlingit people
Ladakh
ladders
Lady of the Lake
lakes
lambs
lambs sacrifices
Lamia
Lamps
lamps and life
lance
language
lanterns
Lao-Tse
lapis lazuli
laurel
law and Father divinities
Leda
legends of dragons
lemon
Lent
Leo
leopards
Leviathan
liberty
Liberty Bell
Liberty Leading the People
Libra
Libya national emblems
life
life after death
life and death in symbol
life force
life matrix
life origin symbol
life source
life transitoriness
light
lightning
lightning and souls
lilies
lingam
lingam of Shiva
lion headed water spouts
lion masks
lion-mask dances
lions
lions and evil
lions and sacrifices
lnari
Loki
longevity
Lorraine national emblems
Lotan
lotus
Lotus of creation
Louis IX
Louis XVI
love
love charms
love in alchemy
low spirits
loyalty
lozenge
Lucas Cranach the elder
Lucifer
luck
lunar calendar
lunar calendars
lunar divinities
lunar eclipses
lunar forces
lunar hare
lunar phases
lunar principle
lunar symbolism
lunar trees
Lung
Lupercalia
lust
lute
lyre
Maat
Macbeth
mace
Machu Picchu
madness
Maenads
Magi
magic
magic girdle and Venus
magic lakes and springs
magic potions
magic rituals
magical powers
maize
Maja
Makara
Makara Vishnu’s steed
Malaysia national emblems
male figure and universe
Mali
Mali gender symbols
Maltese Cross
Man
Man as symbol
mandalas
mandorla
mandrake
manna
Maori patterns sexual symbolism
Maoris
Maoris aggressive tongue display
Maoris myths
Maoris tattoo patterns
Mardi Gras
Marduk
marigold St. Mark
marriage
marriage and union
marriage contracts
marriage customs
marriage rituals
Mars
martyrdom
Mary Magdalene
Mary mother of Jesus
masks
masks and creator
masks and death
masks and illusion
Masks from New Guinea
materia prima
maternal nourishment
maternal symbolism
Maxentius
Mayan
Mayan astrology
Mayan calendar
Mayan culture
Mayan four gods
maypole
mead
Mecca
Medicine
meditation
Medusa
meekness
megaliths
megaliths spiral patterns
melancholia
Memnon
memory
Mendesian goat cult
menorah
mercury
Mercury
mercy
Meru
Mesopotamian creation myth
Mesopotamian myth
messengers
Messengers
Messiah
metals
metamorphosis
meteorites
mice
mice and underworld
Michael
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio paintings
Midas
mikado
mikado dragon motif
Milky Way
mind
mineral springs and healing
Ming dynasty
Ming dynasty emblem
Minoan civilization national emblems
Minos
minotaur
miraculous childbirth
mirrors
mirrors and magic
mist
mistletoe
mistletoe and Druids
mistletoe and lightning
mistletoe and sacrifices
mistletoe and semen
Mithraism
Mithras
Mogul Emperor Akbar
Moloch
monasterys
monasterys in Ladakh
money
money changers and Christ
monkey symbol
monkeys
monks
monks girdles
monks saffron robes
monograms
moon
moon as female emblem
Moon Festival
moon gods
moon jewel associations
moon mythic symbolism
moon worship
moral authority
morality
morning star
Morpheus
Morrigan
mortality
Moses
mother
mother divinities
Mother Earth
mother emblems
motherhood
mounds in Egyption creation myth
Mount Carmel
Mount Meru
Mount of Olives
Mount Olympus
Mount Safa
Mount Sinai
Mount Tlaloc
mountains
mountains and gods
mountains and immortals
mourning
Mouth
mudras
Muhammad
mummies
mummification
mummification canopic jars
mummification of cats
mummification of ibises
Munin and Hugin
Muses
mushrooms
mushrooms and Taoism
music
music and communication smoke and communication
music and planets
music and rituals
music and sexual symbolism
musical instruments
musical instruments and war
mutability
Mycenae
Mycenae golden masks
myrrh
myrtle
myth of Narcissus
mythic symbolism
Nagas
nakedness
nakedness and the fall
nakedness and witches
names of God
narcissus
Narcissus
national emblems
Native American art
Native Americans and fire
Native Americans art
Native Americans calumets
Native Americans headdresses
Native Americans masks
Native Americans number symbols
Nativity of Christ
natural catastrophes
nature
navel
Nazarites
Nazis
necromancy
Neptune
New Jerusalem
New Year
New Year bonfires
night
Nile floods
nimbus
Nine
nirvana
Nkongolo
No theatre
No theatre masks
Noah
noon
Norse creation myths
Norse myths
North Pole
North Pole Masonic symbolism
number and Satan
number symbolism
number symbols conflict
number thirteen
numbers and architecture
numbers and art
numbers and Aztecs
numbers and Hinduism
numbers and music
numbers and sexual symbolism
numbers and sun
numbers and underworld
numbers and union
numbers and Venus
Nun
Nun in Egyptian myth
nuns
oak tree
oak trees
obedience
obelisks
obstinacy
occult symbolism
oceans
oceans female emblems
octagon
Odin
Odysseus
offerings
oil
olive tree
Olympic Games
Om
Omphalos
one
opium
optimism
oracles
oracular figures
orange
orbs
order
order within order
orgiastic rituals
Original Sin
Orion constellation
Ormuzd
Orpheus
Orphic cult
Orphic cult of Bacchus
Osiris
Osiris and Final Judgement
Othello
ouroboros
Ovid
oxen
oxen sacrifices
Paeon
pagodas
painkillers
painting of Calypso’s island
painting of Danae
painting of Mary Magdalene
painting of the Holy Trinity
pallor of death
Palm Sunday
palm tree
Pan
Pan and music
Pan Gu
pan pipes
pansy
Paradise
Paris
parrots
partridge
Parvati
Paschal rituals
passing of tigers
passion
Passion of Christ
Passover
patience
patterns and graphics
peace
peach tree
peach trees and marriage
peacock dances
peacocks
peacocks and stars
peacocks mount of gods
pearls
pearls and Buddha
pearls and moon
pearls and Venus
pears
Pegasus
Pelias of lolcus
pelicans
pelicans and Christianity
penance
pentacle
pentagram
peony
perfection
perfection in alchemy
perfumes
permanence
Persephone
Perseus
personal seals
perspicuity
pessimism
phallic snakes
phallic symbolism
phallic symbols
phallic talismans
phallus
pharaohs
pheasants
Philosopher’s Stone
philosophy
phoenix
Phrygia
Pi emblem
Pieter Bruegel
Pietro Lorenzetti
piety
pigs
pigtails
Pilate
pilgrimage
pilgrimage and shrines
pilgrimages and Virgin Mary
pillar of fire
pillars
pillars of cloud
Pillars of Wisdom
pillars supporting the earth
pine cones and flames
pine tree
pine trees and marriage
Pisces
planet Venus and sexual symbolism
planets
planets and days of the week
plant associations and Virgin Mary
plants
plants and wisdom
plants talismans
Plato
Pleiades
plenty
Pliny
ploughing rituals
ploughs
Plutarch
Pluto
poetry
Pole Star
poles
Pollux
Polydeuces
pomegranate
Pontius Pilate
Popes
poppies
Poseidon
poverty
power
power colours
power number symbols
Pradakshina
prayer
prayer flags
prayer wheels
presence of divinity
Priapus
Pride
profane passion
Prometheus
prophecy
Prophet
Proserpina
prosperity
protection and chastity
protection from evil
protection from lightning
protective amulets
protective divinities
protective magic
protective symbols
protective trees
providence
prudence
psychic energy
psychology of Carl Gustav Jung
Ptolemy
Ptolemy astronomical system
punishment
Purgatory
purification
purification rituals
purity
purple
purse
putti
pyramids
pyramids and mounds
Pythagoras
Pythagoras number system
Python
Qaf
quail
quarantine
queen
Queen of Heaven
quetzal
Quetzalcoatl
Ra
rabbits
Ragnarok
rain
rain and snakes
rain dances
rain gods
rain symbols
rainbow
rainbow and serpents
rainbow and underworld
rainbow goddess iris
rainbow snake
raja yoga
Ramadan
rams
Rangi
rats
rats and underworld
ravens
reason
rebirth
reconciliation
rectitude
red
red rose and blood
redemption
reeds
reeds and witches
refinement
reflective surfaces
regeneration
reincarnation
reindeer
rejuvenating effects of love
rejuvenating springs
rejuvenation
reliability
religious artefacts
religious devotion
remembrance
Remus
renewal
renunciation
renunciation symbols
repentance
reptile enemies
resin
resurrection
Resurrection of Christ
resurrection rituals
retribution
retribution and Final Judgement
revelation
Rhea
rice
rice wine drinking rituals
Rig Veda
rings
rings and magic
rites of passage rituals
ritual dances
ritual disembowelment
rituals
rituals in triplicate
River Styx
rivers
rivers and sacrifices
rivers between life and death
rivers female emblems
rock
rock carvings
rods
Rome
Romulus
roosters
Rosaria festival
rose
roses and Venus
Rosicrucians
Round Table
royal power
royalty
ruby
rumour
runes
runic crosses
Russian Empire national emblems
Sabbath
Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart of Christ
sacrifices
sacrifices and fertility
sacrifices of kings
sacrifices to Zeus
sacrificial animals
Sagittarius
Sailing to Byzantium
salamander
Salem
salmon
Salmon of Knowledge
Salome
salvation
Samson
samurai emblems
Sandro Botticelli
Santa Claus
sapphire
Saqqara
Satan
Satan as the serpent
Satanism
Saturn
Saturnalia
satyrs
saviour symbols
scales
scapegoat
scarab
scarabs amulets
scents
sceptre
sceptre of Buddha
sceptre of Indra
sceptres and punishment
scholars
science
Science and symbolism
Scorpio
scorpion
Scotland national emblems
scriptures of Buddhism
sea
sea power
sea serpents
seals
seasons
Sebek
Secret Fire
security
Seder meal
seductiveness
sefiroth
Sekhmet
self
self-control
self-denial
selfishness
self-knowledge
self-pollination
self-sacrifice
semen
semen of bulls
separation
serenity
Sermon on the Mount
serpents
serpents and the Tree of Life
serpents at base of the spine
serpents in creation myths
serpents in Eden
serpents supporting the earth
Set
seven
Seven Deadly Sins
seven emblems of Buddha
seventeen
seventy
sexual symbolism
sexual symbolism colours
sexual symbolism in art
sexual symbolism in Greek mythology
sexual symbolism in weddings
sexual symbolism of flowers
sexual symbolism of fruit
Shabuoth
shadows
shamanic healing
shamanic magic
shamanic masks
shamanic rituals
shamanism
shamanism and forests
shamanism authority symbols
shamanism cave paintings
shamanism dance
shamanism drumming
shamanism father symbols
shamanism flight
shamanism leopard skins
shamanism magic
shamanism masks
shamanism number symbols
shamanism shapeshifting
shamanism sky travel
Shamash
shapeshifting
shaven head
shaven heads
sheep
shells
Shesha
Shi’ites
Shinto New Year
ships and boats
Shiva
Shiva Lord of the Dance
Shiva Third Eye
shooting stars
Shou Lao
Shri
shrines
sickle
signet rings
significance of marriage
Sikhs
silence
silver
Simon Magus
sin
Sin
sincerity
Sir Edward Burne-Jones painting
six
sixty
skeleton
skull
sky
sky gods
slavery
sleep
Sleipnir
Sloth
smoke
snails
snake symbolism
snakes
snakes and creator
snakes and evil
snakes and Herakles
snakes and sexual symbolism
snakes and the Tree of Life
snakes and underworld
snakes and water
snakes in Native American art
solar
solar disk
solar eclipses
solar energy
solar forces
solar palm tree
solar principle
solar symbols
solar trees
solidity
solitude
Solomon
Song of Solomon
sorcery
sorrow
souls
souls and Amamet
souls contained in the bone
souls of pharaohs
souls of the reborn
sovereign power
sovereignty
space
spades
sparks
speaking in tongues
spears
speech
speed
spheres
sphinx
spiders
spirals
spirit
spirit forces
spirit worship
spirits
spirits of the dead
spiritual authority
spiritual discipline
spiritual enlightenment
spiritual evolution
spiritual life
Spiritual perfection
spiritual power
spirituality
spring
spring festivals
spring rituals
spring rituals rituals
springs
squares
St Valentine’s Day
St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Francis of Assisi
St. George
St. John the Evangelist
St. Luke
St. Matthew
St. Nicholas
St. Paul
St. Peter
stability
staff
Star of Bethlehem
Star of David
Star of David and union
star of Magi
star shapes
stars
stars and sexual symbolism
sterility
still-lifes
Stoics
stone
stone and fertility
Stonehenge
stones and rituals
stored energy
storks
storm gods
storms
storms and punishment
strength
stupas
Styx
submission
Subramanja
success
sulphur
summer
sun
sun and the horse
sun gods
sun in the Zodiac
sun worship
sun worship rituals
supernatural
supernatural power
surrender
Swan of Tuonela
swans
swans and sun
swans and Venus
swastika
swastika and Buddha
swastika symbol
swords
swords and flames
swords and magic
swords and rituals
symbolic significance of bones
symbolism in Islam
symbols
symbols and images in astrology
symbols for tyranny
symbols of God
symbols of Virgin Mary
symbols origin and usage
sympathetic magic
Tabernacle
Tablets of the Law
talismans
tamarisk
Tantric
Tantric Buddhism
Taoism
Taoism and mushrooms
Taoism and the heart
Taoism eight Immortals
Taoism fasting
Taoism good and evil
Taoism number symbolism
Taoism perfection
Taoism water image
Taoism wheel symbol
Taoism writers and artists’
Taoist immortals
Taoist perfection
Tarot
tattooing
tattooing symbolic patterns
Tau
Tau Cross
taurobolium
taurobolium bull sacrifices
Taurus
teeth
Temperance
Temperance and water
temples
temporal power
temptation
ten
Ten Commandments
ten thousand
tests of witches
tetraktys
Tezcatlipoca
Thanatos
the aggressive display of tongue
the axe and Buddha
The Birth of Venus
the blues
the boar and moon
the Buddha as lion
the Child
the circle and union
the colour green and fairies
the crocodile and death
the crocodile and earth
the crocodile and life
the crocodile and music
the crocodile and song
the crocodile and water
the cross and earth
the cross and suffering transcended
the cross and the fall
the cross and union
the cross as symbol of Christianity
the Devil
the divine will
the eye
The Fall
the female principle
The Golden Bough
the Great Fire
the hand of God
the head
the head and power
the heart
the heart and charity
the heart and God
the heart and love
the heart and wisdom
the heart in Buddhism
the heavens of Shiva
the horse and Buddha
the lotus and Buddha
the lotus and creator
the lotus and Hinduism
the lotus and Taoism
the lotus and union
The Merchant of Venice
the moon and madness
the Morrigan
the mouth and fire
the olive tree and Virgin Mary
the ox and Buddhism
the ox and Taoism
the phoenix and charity
The Prophet
The Seasons
the serpent and the fall
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
the sky
The Sleep of Reason
the sphinx as mother
the stork and Taoism
the sun
the sun and Buddha
the sword and tongue
the Tarot and souls
the Tarot and wands
The Tempest
the ten-thousand immortals
the tongue and flame
the Tree of Life and salvation
the Tree of Life and souls
The Triumph of Death
the true feather
the universe
the week
the week symbols and origin
the will
theatre
theatre masks
Theseus
Thetis
Third Eye
thirteen
thistle
Thomas Aquinas
Thor
Thoth
three
Three Blessed Fruits
throne of Buddha
throne of God
thrones
thunder
thunder gods
thunderbird
thunderbolts
Tiamat
Tiberius
Tibetan sceptre
tigers
tigerssymbolism
time measurement of tigers
Tincture
Tishtrya
Titania
Titans
tithes
Tlaloc
Tlingit people
Tlingit people crow myths
Tlingit people toads
Tlingit people tombs
toads and earth
tombs
tongue
tongue and truth
tongues
topaz
torches
tortoise
tortoise supporting the earth
totality
totemic animals
Tower of Babel
transcendence
transcendent wisdom
transformation
treachery
Tree of Death
Tree of Immortality
Tree of Knowledge
tree of life
tree spirits
trees
trees and fertility
trees and lightning
trefoil
trials in the afterlife
triangles
triangles and life
triangles and sexual symbolism
trident
trigram
Trimurti
Trinity the
Tripitaka
triskelion
Tristram and Isolde
Troy
trumpets
trumpets and Final Judgement
truth
Tsar of Russia Alexis
tumulus graves
Tunisia national emblems
turbans
turbans and Islam
Turkey national emblems
turkeys
turquoise
turquoise dragon Lung
turtles
tutelary gods
twelve
twenty
twenty-one
twilight
twins
two
Tyndareus
Typhon
tyranny
unconscious
underworld
underworld and the Tree of Life
underworld colours
underworld guides
Undry
Undry life-giving cauldron
unicorns
union
union of families
union of opposites
United States national emblems
universality
universe
uraeus
Uranus
vajra
Valhalla
vanity
Varanasi
vases
Vasuki
Vasuki earthquake snake
vaults
Vayu
Vedas
Vedic tradition
Venus
Venus in art
Vestal Virgins
vibration of cosmos
victory over death
vigilance
violence
violet
violets
virgin birth
Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary in art
Virgin Mary Rose of Heaven
virginity
Virgo
virility
Vishnu
Vishnu Surya
visions of Ezekiel
vitality
voice of the Law
volcanoes
Vritra
Vritra chaos snake
Vulcan
vultures
vulva
W B Yeats
Wala-Undayna
Wales national emblems
wall paintings
Walter Crane
wands
warlike spirit
washing
water
water element
water gods
water in creation myth
water spouts
water symbolism
water Zodiac signs
weapons
weather
wedding cake
wedding dances
wedding knots
wedjat
week
werewolves
Western Europe funerary rites
whales
wheat
wheel
wheel cross
Wheel of Becoming
Wheel of Existence
Wheel of Life
Wheel of the Law
wheel symbols power
whip
white
white elephant and Buddha
white magic
White Mountain
‘wicker man’
wild geese and shamanism
will
William Blake paintings
William Shakespeare
willow bark and childbirth
willow tree
willows and Taoism
willpower
wind
wind and sexual symbolism
wind gods
winds and evil
winds and rumour
wine
wine and blood
wine and rituals
wine and truth
wine and union
winter
wisdom
wisdom and dance
witches
witches and animals
witches of Salem
wizards
wizards hazel wands
wizards’ wands
Woden
wolves
wolves and evil
wolves and sexual symbolism
womb symbols
women menstrual cycle
women menstrual cycle as symbols
wood
Word of God
World Mountains
World Tree
wrath divine
wrath divine personified
wrath of God
wreaths
writers and artists’
writing
Xi Wang Mu
Xipe Totec
Xoltl
Xoltl Aztec dog god
yang symbols
yang symbols and the I Ching
yantras
yarrow sticks
yellow
Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil World Tree
Yi
yin symbols
yin symbols and the I Ching
yin-yang
yin-yang harmony
yin-yang symbolism
Ymir
yoga
yogic chakras
yogic serpent
yokes
Yom Kippur
yoni
yoni symbol
youth
Yuletide
Zarathustra
Zen Buddhism
Zeno
zero
Zeus and Amaltheia
Zeus and Danae
Zeus and Europa
Zeus and Leda
ziggurats
ziggurats and mountains
zigzag
Zodiac
zodiacal significance of destruction
Zoroaster
Zoroastrianism
Zoser
Sources Cited
Tressider, Jack. Symbols and Their Meaning. 2000.
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