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20:12 Aug 2, 2017 |
French to English translations [Non-PRO] Art/Literary - Archaeology / ancient art | |||||
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| Selected response from: Christopher Crockett Local time: 01:21 | ||||
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3 +1 | anything related to concrete symbols |
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4 | inseparable from [or: inextricably linked with] the symbolic sense |
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anything related to concrete symbols Explanation: The mirror being the concrete symbol. |
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inseparable from [or: inextricably linked with] the symbolic sense Explanation: Here's my take on it: "The mirror, as a miniature representation of the sun, was an appropriate metaphor for it, even beyond the mystical meanings which were, for the Egyptians, inseparable from [or: inextricably linked with] the symbolic sense." I don’t much like “microcosm” here, since to me that word seems to imply a rather complex entity, rather than the single being which the [divine] sun represents. OED: "2. a. Any complex entity, esp. a community, regarded as forming a self-contained or self-regulating world or universe." So I prefer to explicitly enunciate the somewhat more obscure sense given in the OED, “2e. in microcosm: in miniature; on a small scale.” As I read it, the essence of what B. was intending to say was that the "mystical" meaning and the "symbolic" one were (to use Tony's happy word) inextricably linked in the Egyptian consciousness --a consciousness which, btw, we in the modern West really cannot fathom, much less fully appreciate; it is much closer to the consciousness of the Middle Ages in our own culture. |
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