Tag Archives: holocaust

Deeper and Deeper into the Heart of Darkness

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Symbol Reader

On 10 July 1941, the most shameful chapter of my native Poland’s history was written. In a small town of Jedwabne, occupied by the Nazis, its sizeable Jewish community was brutally murdered by the Poles. For years, the perpetrators shifted … Continue reading →

Posted in Jedwabne | Tagged Bikont, depth psychology, evil, Gross, holocaust, Jedwabne, Jews, massacre, perpetrator, pogrom, pogroms, Poland, Poles, terror, victim | 21 Comments

Your Golden Hair Margeurite: Hair as a Symbol

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Rapanzel, via http://haleys-comet.deviantart.com/art/Rapunzel-Let-Down-Your-Hair-110501671 In an old pagan ritual known as the Maypole dance, on the Eve of May Day, female dancers circled the pole the counter-clockwise direction, which is sacred to women and associated with the moon while male dancers … Continue reading →

Posted in Hair | Tagged Apollo, archetypes, Auschwitz, Berenice, braids, Coma Berenices, Death Fugue, hair, holocaust, isis, Louis XIV, maypole, mythology, Osiris, Paul Celan, plaits, Samson, Shiva, symbolism, symbols, wigs | 23 Comments

Colour Symbolism: Blue

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Symbol Reader

the modern Nut, via http://the-broom-cupboard.blogspot.ch/2011/07/facebook-page-for-goddess-nut.html If it is true, as Flaubert says, that one does not choose their subject matter but rather submits to it, then I must write about the colour blue today. You have heard of the Grand … Continue reading →