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Plants and Minerals * Oak tree - represented ower to the druids. - rune letter D = "duir" (source?) Symbols and Objects * Arrow - Some Amer. Indian tribes thought of it as a symbol of male power. "sacred medicine arrows" - dominance over other tribes. hunting animals. (WDS.21) (see war,storm,lust,male) * Diamond - (stemming from the Dorje - see Dorje) a symbol of royal power and the power of love. (WDS.22) * Dorje - Tantric buddhist scepter. Also northern india "vajra" at once, a jewel, thunderbolt, and phallus. The thunder bolt is the lightning god as fertilizer of Mother Earth's hidden depths. and the gems being solid drips of his divine semen'" also called a 'diamond holder' - the diamond represents the divine spirit sensed through sexual orgasm. Hence, the diamond is a symbol of royal power and power of love (WDS.22) * Duir - druidic rune letter D - representing power. (source?) * Fasces - Roman birchrods tied with red things. symbol of authorit and power to punish the disobedient. (later the symbol was used by 'fascists') (WDS.23) * Money - main symbol of power in today's patriarchal society. (WDS.146) * Rod - general symbol of fertility. a king's sexual attatchment to the goddess of the land, (his connection with the country) - the rod is a scepter of rulers. (WDS.28) Later, the rod is made of metal and precious jewels, symbol of economic power. (WDS.29,30) (see wealth) |