Symbols - What does heaven look like
Valley
A valley is the opposite of a mountain or hill. Whereas hills and mountains represent ascent, a valley is descent. In ascent you move symbolically closer to the spiritual world bliss, happiness and peace. In descent into the valley you move symbolically away from your composer, away from spiritual experience, away from your Higher spirit. The result is depression and despair.
When you say you are feeling ‘low’ this is what a valley means. The symbolism is neither complex to understand, nor particularly multi-faceted as it can be with other landscape features. The only thing worth pointing out is that a hugely deep bottomless valley or chasm may be the abyss!
We have valleys of alienation or melancholy, of loneliness and angst, every negative emotion is found in a valley . Valley dwellers are truly in the shadow, in darkness, because they deny themselves or are being denied all the support of spiritual input. Those on the mountain are in sun much earlier and longer – thus physically true but allegorically true too.
It is also possible to ‘see’ valleys or gulfs in the sea or in water, that sink down to the depths of the ocean in a trough. The symbolism is the same but the severity of the effects can sometimes be greater, the person feels as though they are drowning figuratively in their sorrows, being unhinged by them, being dissolved by them.
Observations
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- African nurse meets her dead grandmother
- American footballer
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Valley of the Quest
- Attempted suicide
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Above ponds, above valleys Mountains, woods, clouds, seas
- Billy Joel - The River of Dreams
- Bingen, Hildegard of - The valley of scorpions
- Blake, William - Memory hither come
- Blithe spirit - The green valley, the lion and the sadhus
- Book of Enoch-26
- Braveheart - A long shamanic journey
- Cardiac arrest
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Clare, John - Wilt thou go with me sweet maid
- Crowley, Aleister - Divine synthesis
- Dickinson, Emily - I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up
- Eliot, T S - Hollow Men 02
- Frater Albertus - Introduction to Alchemy 02
- Gentling the Bull – 06 Returning home on the back of the Bull
- Hardy, Thomas - Wessex heights - In the lowlands I have no comrade
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Thorny Forest
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - O driver of the reddish-white camels
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 043 Section 3
- John Fletcher - Melancholy
- Kabir - Inside this clay jug there are canyons
- Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
- Lewis, C S - Dawn Treader - The underwater city
- Lowell, James Russell - O dwellers in the valley land
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - Misc quotes - Therein lay his secret
- Maeterlinck, Maurice – Wisdom and Destiny – On the loom
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 14 The shape shifting of Plumed Serpent
- Morrells, Luce and paths
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And the jackal story
- Palenque - Mayan - Overview
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Dream-Land
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Eldorado
- Poe, Edgar Allen - The Haunted Palace
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Psalm 23
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 14 Third Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 37 Eighth Elegy
- Songs of Valley Spirit 01
- Tales of the Trickster
- Temple Mount
- The role of Spirit helpers in an NDE 02
- The warm valley
- Thomson, James B.V. - Insomnia
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 02 - 2 The enormous game of chess
- Valleys and lakes
- Verlaine, Paul - Aspiration
- Zohar - III 107a – Rose of Sharon