As Georges Gurvitch wrote, “we are convinced that symbols reveal themselves in hiding and hide in their revelation.” Symbols are an all-access key to penetrate and understand particular spheres. Some say we are not living in a world of symbols, but it is a world of symbols that is living with us.
However aware of how cryptic and chameleon symbols can be, we will still attempt to uncover the most pure meaning of each symbol before it assumes another shade and hides from us again.
Isis, wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, is also commonly associated with another ancient Egyptian deity named Hathor. This name, which literally means “house of Horus”, represents a symbolic lap for her son, who is also the son of Osiris.
Following suit of her many forms, Hathor was the goddess of love as well as [...]
The Fontana Maggiore, or Main Fountain, is like a book of stone that unfolds while walking around it.
It is like a great clock that transcends both cosmic and earthly timetables. Completed in 1278, the monument of Perugia became the fulcrum to which public life revolved around, and therefore the symbol of the Platea Magna (latin [...]
Woman, in her role as wife, is the protagonist of four different scenes out of the twelve months of the Main Fountain of Perugia, carved in 1278 on the lower basin by Giovanni and Nicola Pisano. There is no doubt of her identity as uxor – wife – because the Latin word is clearly written [...]
