Description: This Book-of-the-Month Club hardcover selection is a definitive compendium of symbols and their deeper meanings in individual human psychology and civilization. Tracing symbols to their cultural, religious, or mythical origins, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols explores a wealth of objects and concepts, as well as the hidden meanings that lie concealed beneath their ordinary outward appearance. Entries range from examples of metaphor and allegory to the symbolic meanings of numbers, letters, astrological and alchemical characters, as well as a rich array of abstract concepts that find their tangible expression in the universal language of symbols.

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