Symbols - What does heaven look like
Crack and crevice
In the symbolic landscape that is the body, one of the features that all shamans explore is the Underworld. One of the ways in which the Underworld can be accessed is via a symbolic cave, however, an alternative is the crack or crevice. Thus a crack or crevice is yet another type of portal, but one leading figuratively speaking ‘down’
Observations
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- Ancestors, the - Art - David Lewis-Williams from The Mind in the Cave
- Blodeuwedd
- David Lewis-Williams - Caves and spiritual experience
- David Lewis-Williams - The San go down the rabbit hole
- Hans Peter Duerr - Dreamtime - Visiting the Earth Mother's womb
- Paul Devereux - Australian aboriginal – Flying through the sky
- Paul Devereux - Native American Indians - Mazinaw Rock
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - The cock-of-the-rock
- Simon, Paul - Hearts and bones
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - Rock art
- The Calculation of the Sigui - By the Dogon, the Bambara, the Bozo and the Minianka
- Thor Conway - Native American Indians - Rock Art
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Celtic Otherworld and the Sidhe