ISBN:
978-3-9813863-9-4
Language:
English
Pages:
325 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
Special limited ed. 2012
Keywords:
Flora Symbol
;
Semiotik
;
Kultur
;
Religion
;
Philosophie
Abstract:
Throughout history and across cultures, important figures such as Nostradamas in France, Daniel Andreeve in Russia, Dr. Edward Bach in England, and Dr. Tomin Harada in Japan have brought to light the symbolic and medicinal qualities of the rose. Written by scholars and researchers from diverse backgrounds, the essays in Rose Lore are a rendering of global cultural history, literature, and metaphysics, woven together in a collection that will be valuable to several disciplines. The essays present numerous qualities of the rose as a symbol with broad cultural, social, and historical meanings: from astrology, to the history of Catholicism, to the new anti-Female Genital Mutilation global movement.
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Wild Roses and Native Americans Chapter 4 FGM or Cutting the Rose in Alice Walker's Garden Chapter 5 Rose Symbolism in Qabalistic Tarot and Beyond Chapter 6 Tradition of the Rose in East Indian Culture and Ayurvedic Medicine Chapter 7 Rose to Rosary: The Flower of Venus in Catholicism Chapter 8 The Rose and Astrology Chapter 9 "Dying Laughing": The Rose from Yeats to Rumi Chapter 10 Rose Vignettes: Black Plague to Gulag Chapter 11 "...Blossom as the Rose" in OAHSPE, The Emerald Tablets, and the Holy Bible
