The constellation
Z150 Other symbols
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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The same sky, in words
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- Ring broken as token of broken engagement · Z151 entry
- Princess crushes lotus-flower to show that she will be submissive · Z153 entry
- Gray hair the symbol of departed usefulness · Z155 entry
- Cloud (mist) as symbol of misfortune · Z156 entry
- Olive branch symbol of peace · Z157 entry
- Symbolism: not to fight alone. Various figures employed to show it is not good for one warrior alone to fight the battles of a host · Z161 entry
- Arthur's Round Table symbolic of round earth · Z162 entry
- Message or orders given symbolic action · Z174 entry
- Sign language. Message delivered by means of the fingers, etc · Z175 entry
- Symbolism of the mass · Z176 entry
- Lamb as symbol of Christ · Z177 entry
- Allegorical game. Witch, aided by dragon (lion) is vanquished by maiden, aided by lamb (ram). Witch is devil; maiden, church of Christ · Z178 entry
- Nudity as sign of anger · Z181 entry
- Symbolic wounding of king · Z182 entry
- Symbolic names · Z183 entry
- Symbols of divinity · Z184 entry
- Mill turned by the water of the grace of God as symbol of saint · Z185 entry
- Symbolism: needle and thread – sexual intercourse · Z186 entry