Symbols - What does heaven look like
Pennant or flag
Pennants and flags symbolically represents spirit output and thus perceptions making their way to the spirit world. In some contexts they specificaly represent prayers and this is where the use of prayer flags arises in Buddhist cultures.
There is some similarity here with the symbol of the rolls of thread or fabric.
This is why pageants held for knights often involved pennants and banners – a symbol of thoughts heading to the spiritual world – a sort of prayer via the pennant. As the energy is being output by us, it is symbolically red, which is why many pennants were red.
Lady Affixing a Pennant to a Knight's Spear by Elizabeth Siddall, 1856 |
Observations
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- Braveheart - Pencil case soldier and YORK
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Clare, John - Old customs, O I love the sound
- Crowley - 04 The Emperor
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - The flag wavers
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Cornucopia
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Elephants
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Leda and the Swan
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Triumph drawn by Centaurs
- Kabir - There is a flag no one sees blowing in the sky temple
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian magic
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - Concerning the spiritual in art - Wassily Kandinsky 2
- Moreau - Inspiration 1893
- Mudang spiritual experiences – The sufferings and initiation of the paksu Chang Myung-hoon
- Nick Jans - The Last Night Breaking - Maniilaq Part 5
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 04
- Popol Vuh Museum - Guatemala city - The 'butterfly catcher'
- Saint Brendan - from a 15th century manuscript
- Song of Solomon 2
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Flags and pennants
- The legend of Kartikeya
- Various examples - 19 The Sun
- Youtube video - Shaman of Korea, 몽골 UBS방송 '골든벨' 초청 황해도굿 시연