#hidden meaning

[hands-of-lazarus]

a personal favourite of mine. can you guess what it means?

Insaitiable hunger

#deep sea #deep space #surreal #creepy #cosmic horror #spaceship #space exploration #hidden meaning #angler fish

[awesomecooperlove]

STARBUCKS’S LOGO.. I’LL NEVER LOOK AT IT THE SAME WAY AS BEFORE

😲😲😲

#starbucks #hidden meaning #hidden agenda #bad taste #dirty games #strange logo #weird #truth #speak up #please share #wwg1wga

[occvltswim]

Etymological meaning of the word "BLACK" is to be "pale, colorless or albino". @therealcushdey

— source: An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

#cush dey #uncomfortable conversations #the beam out #education #etymology #definitions #hidden meaning #black #pale #colorless #albino #moors #moorish science

[fyreflys]

Only I would write such specific imagery with such a deep metaphor that literally only I would ever get or understand

(For anyone curious- Hawks are a symbol of Artemis. Crows are symbolic of Erebus, the creator/Greek god of the underworld and darkness. Essentially, I’m trying to signal that Artemis, which I have chosen to associate with Katniss, is marking an end to Katniss’s all-consuming grief. I’m ridiculous.)

#the hunger games #everlark #katniss everdeen #fanfic #wip #snippet #imagery #metaphor #hidden meaning #Greek mythology #Greek mythology metaphor #i’m crazy

[calendulacraft]

Have you ever wondered if there is a deeper meaning behind the names of the months?

I just began a new series on Medium.com ~ and I would so appreciate your readership over there 📚✏

The entemology of February coming soon 🌬

#mythology #entemology #hidden meaning #months of the year #name meanings #wheel of the year

[innervoiceartblog]

There are hidden Pagan teachings in many of the fairy tales and I'll tell you what to look for hidden in Hansel and Gretel...

In it we see the Pagan cycle of the seasons: Hansel represents the youthful grain god known in Slavic lore as Jarillo, Lado or Kresnik, accompanied by Gretel, the maiden of spring who is the Slavic goddess known as Jarilla, Lada or Vesna. These deities were twin siblings and in their maturity become divine spouses.

To recognize the Pagan symbols of the seasons we need to look back at least 6,000 to 8,000 years. The original herding cultures had only two seasons running from May 1st/ May 5th (the Slavic St. George’s Day, Jurjevo, or Beltaine) to the end of October/beginning of November (Dzady or Samhain.) Later it divided into three seasons starting February 2nd, to the Summer Solstice and then end of October/ beginning of November (this is when the concept of the triple goddess and triple god developed, as a seasonal representation of Maiden, Mother, Crone, but very little is remembered today of the triple god.) Eventually settling out into the modern four seasons divided at the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice. This means that the concept of the “new year” started in the spring on May 1st/ May 5th, then became perceived as February 2nd, then on the Spring Equinox (March 15th) and eventually settled on the Winter Solstice, until the Romans moved it a few days to January 1st. This gives us a strange similarity of many springtime traditions to winter solstice traditions/ New Year celebrations. For now we’ll just focus on the springtime god and goddess represented by Hansel and Gretel.

These two siblings were sent forth because in the privation of winter they had no more food to eat in the house. Their father leads them into the forest and they build a large fire “as high as a little hill” where they fall asleep and their father leaves them. This is the Bel fires lit in the spring and alternately the Koliada or Yule fire of the Solstice. In the Russian variation, we can see the triple goddess, where the young Hansel and Gretel are sent by their mother to their old “grandmother” who lives in the forest. This elderly woman is the ancient goddess of winter, known in Slavic lands by the name of Baba Jaga, Morana or Mara.

The symbolism of the bread crumbs to try to lead the children back home connect to the grain god and the last “crumbs” from winter. When they are finally lost with no bread to guide them back, in some variations, the children are led by a “snow white” bird to the witch’s gingerbread house which the youths begin to eat. Understand that all birds, but especially white birds, were known to be messengers of the Goddess, while the honey-sweetened gingerbread represents the sacrificial food of the season offered to the deities. In some variations when the witch asks who is nibbling on her house, Gretel answers, “The wind, the wind.” This makes more sense when you know that the Spring Goddess’s name of Vesna, means “breeze,” as in the breezes that bring springtime. Eventually, the old witch catches the children, Hansel is put in a cage and Gretel must slave away doing chores. The girl eventually destroys the old witch by tricking her and shoving her into the oven.

The oven as a symbol of transformation is seen going back to the Baden culture dating around 3000 BCE. On my trip to Zagreb, Croatia, in the museum I observed small votive pottery sculptures of ovens that were found in temples and burials around the Slavic lands. Why ovens? This sacred image from five thousand years ago holds the transformative property of transmuting grain into life-nurturing bread. It is the same seasonal cycle that is mentioned in John Barleycorn and other Pagan songs, “Corn and grain, corn and grain, all that dies will rise again.” By “killing” the old witch of winter, Gretel releases young Hansel from his cage and the siblings carry off the witch’s “treasure” bringing the prosperity of spring! In some variations of the tale, they are led back home by a white duck (symbol of the Goddess) and in a Romanian version, the boy gets turns into a cuckoo, a bird that symbolizes the return of spring.

Gingerbread’s earliest variation was made with honey. This important ingredient is sacred to the God and Goddess going back to hunter-gatherer times. Honey cookies were made for the Winter Solstice in the round shape of the sun (and the spring holidays too, but that’s a whole ‘nother essay!) Later oriental spices were added and it became what is known as gingerbread, but the honey was the most important ingredient. The names reflecting this treat’s ancient origins would start with med (meaning honey), such as medenjaci in Croatia and medenjaki in Slovenia. The Czech and Slovak variation of pernik, or pierniczki in Poland, and pryaniki in Russia come from variations on pryany which means “spicy.”

(copyright 2018 Patricia Robin Woodruff)

#hansel and gretel #folktales #folklore #fairy tales #once upon a time #pagan #lore #ancient ways #SymbolSpeak #witch #wheel of the year #kay nielsen #illustration #art #hidden meaning

[nekktorine]

Artwork by me. :-)

Let me know what you think 🤔

#love #inspiration #art #sketch #traditional art #lovers #intimacy #emotions #colour #corecore #meaningful #hidden meaning #sadness #anger #feelings #strong emotions #drawing #sketchbook #aesthetic #masculine #feminine #special #pencil #colour pencil #artists on tumblr #small artist #queer artist #queer

[sparklearts]

I hide all sorts of things in my art! Here's a guide to the cover art of ep 14 🌒🌕🌘 myth, symbology, and meaning.

Supporters also have a guide for an unreleased cover! If you'd like to support me, head over to GlobalComix and become a Superfan!

https://globalcomix.com/a/sparklearts

#celestis #comics #globalcomix #indie comics #webcomics #fantasy comic #webcomic #mythology #symbolism #hidden meaning

[aglio-orio]

"Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth" - Marcus Aurelius

follow my art ig: @Raikaku_

#art #icarus art #flight of icarus #sketch #digital illustration #hidden meaning #hidden message #digital art

[botanical-poetry]

strictly confidential.

hiding behind

double meanings

and concealed feelings

murmurs mysteriously matched

threaten exposure with

unwavering whispered wants

two hearts longing,

two hearts falling,

out of which

love comes pouring.

#botanical poetry #poem #hidden meaning

[tiredtreebranch1]

A Meadow Full of Skulls

Colours blurred together, I watched as greens, purples, blues, yellows mixed together as I waited for the world to straighten itself out. Slowly green turned into grass, and blues, yellows and purples turned into flowers that covered the ground for miles. The only thing to tell me they stopped at some point were towering mountains enclosing me in the meadow. I stumbled through the grass at first, trying to avoid stepping on the flowers, an impossible task. As I breathed in and out and focused on the beauty of the flowers and the endless clear blue sky above it became easier to walk. Soon I was sniffing the flowers and grinning at the place I have found myself in. A calmness had washed over me. As I strolled through the grass my foot hit against something hard slightly tripping me up. I caught myself and looked down to what had gotten in my way. Sitting innocently in between the flowers was a skull. Dread washed over me at the sight of it. All previous calmness had vanished. My vision filled with skulls. They overtook the colours of the flowers turning the world grey and white. My breathing sped up and I collapsed into a pile of skulls. As I knelt there for what seemed an eternity I reminisced on the flowers, the calmness, the beauty. As I knelt there, I saw the flowers in my mind. As I knelt there dreaming of flowers they grew. Grew back up through the skulls, twisting through the grey, blooming in the sun. I brushed my fingers against the nearest one and stood up.

On shaky legs I made my way through the skulls. I tried my hardest to focus only on the flowers, how they beat back against the skulls. Sometimes my mind slipped back to the skulls, and they started beating the flowers. At those times my legs would grow weak and I would feel as if I could crumble at any second. But at the times that it was hardest to think of the flowers that was the time I knew I needed to the most. And as I thought about them they grew around the skulls, overtaking them overtime. Now when I walked through the meadow only a few skulls littered the ground, far outnumbered by the flowers. Sometimes I can't see a skull for miles, but I always seem to come across one eventually. I can’t seem to avoid it. Despite my best efforts there will always be a skull in my meadow, not always seen or taken notice of but always there.

But that’s okay, My skulls make the flowers of my meadow all the more pretty.

#creative writing #writing #fiction #metaphor #sadnees #deppresion #recovery #hidden meaning #guys i wrote something that actually symbolised something look at me go #symbolism #writers on tumblr

[daddys-angel-cake]

Daddy and I got tattoos similar to this last month. Mine is a red T-Rex with rainbow spikes and a little heart tattoo on his arm lol. Daddy's is the green one in the picture. We love them so much!

#tattoos #little tattoo #hidden meaning #sfw littlespace #daddy and baby #couple tattoos

[catertaters]

Dream Thursday 12/1/22

First thing I remember from this dream is I’m in the car with you, but it’s a white car and there’s a huuuuge center console area. The world looks kinda pixelated through the windows, super slightly. We’re going down backroads and up and down hills. I’m trying to give you bj but I can’t reach so you pull your seat all the back and have me climb there and uh proceed. You tell me to stop before you cum because “she can’t find out I’ve cum” and I asked you who and you parked the car under a flight of spiral stairs in the middle of a double fenced in area by an overpass. We’re running down a massive highway dodging cars. We come across like 5-6 other people who are doing the same thing. The cars look insane, like rounded out fighter jets and the road has a divet for the pointy center on the underside of the cars. It looks super futuristic and nuts. And there’s like certain lanes for certain speeds and there’s booster pads for going up hills and shit. And in my dream logic I thought “oh this is why it took forever for the road work on 422, all highways are like this now”. Anyway, among the other 6 people that are dodging cars on this highway is my dad, but he’s only wearing torn jagged cargo pants and ripped up trench coat with no shoes and has like large masses or bumps all over his feet and his stomach. I try to run faster so he doesn’t notice me but you get all excited because you think he’s fascinating in like a macabre kind of way. So you grab my arm and make me slow down but I’m having a panic attack and can feel my heart beat in my eyes. We all stop at like a picnic area in the middle of this highway and all start sharing these weird sandwiches that look like tuna and cucumber but the one I get has hair on it so I throw it my dad. He eats it anyway. You’re laughing and hanging out with him and I get freaked out, and there’s some shit I don’t remember but the three of us are walking down this alley that’s lit up by torch light and isn’t paved, it’s just a dirt road in what looks like a shanty town, with fences everywhere with like scraps of fabric hanging. We come up to a guy wearing fat red nike shoes with no laces and he calls my dad a pussy cause he stole them from him and he can’t cut it here with the rest of the muties. This guy is like 7 ft tall with blisters on his face and hands and looks like he might has a tail (looks like a rats tail or could’ve been a giant rat behind him I don’t remember). But my dad grabs this giant bone, looks like it was a femur and it has another bone off the top of it that’s shaved down and sharpened and looks like it’s a scythe. He causually walks up to this guy thing and just stabs him up through is stomach and rips open is chest cavity and spits on his heart and steals his shoes back. You and I start running and we’re running so fucking fast we’re passing cars and hoping fences like 2 at a time (these fences are like two city blocks away from each other) and we find our car down that spiral stair case and just hop from the top of the stair case and right into the seats. There’s two massive ogre looking guys near the front and rear of the car and you try to back it away slowly but they start swinging so you back two walls and your headlights come off and you talk to the car “are you okay to drive” and it just goes and we drive and I’m crying and freaking out and you start to tell me something but there’s a fire in the street with a gang of these muties that are chasing us and some blockading the road we crash into them and then I woke up.

#dream #wasteland #trauma #hidden meaning #I’m scared of this #nightmare #panic attack

[shadyavenuejellyfish]

Deep Within- A poem by me

Deep within lies your truest self.

Deep within are your secrets that you hold so close.

Deep within me, my secrets burn my insides.

Deep within, my truest self tries to claw his way out but often screams as they try and fail to do so.

Deep within, I hide how I feel.

Deep within me, I feel the rage and hate rot me.

Deep within, I feel the urge to cause pain, spill blood, and destroy all that slightly irritates me.

I ignore my deep within.

I ignore it due to the vessel that hides my deep within.

My vessel is seen.

My vessel is heard.

My vessel lies.

My deep within is true.

My deep within is never seen or heard.

What about yours?

#deep within #poem by me #poem #angry poetry #hidden meaning

[lotus-eaters101]

I really admire when artists incorporate some meaningful thoughts in just random bunch of words, totally masquerading it and when actually discovered gives a whole new different dimension to it.

For instance, when I first heard the below verse from the song 'Starboy' by 'The Weeknd' I thought that these were just some mere arrangement of ultra random words without any internal depiction but after giving it a lotta thought and reiterating the words, found really something cool which I thought I should share.

The verse :

Twenty racks a table, cut from ebony

Cut that ivory into skinny pieces

Then she clean it with her face, man, I love my baby, ah

The interpretation :

Apparently, Abel —his girl now snorts cocaine (“ivory”) off of $20,000 tables made from ebony, an expensive hardwood sourced from rare, endangered trees.

Ivory and Ebony are both valuable materials often presented as opposites, as in the Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder hit. The title of that song actually refers to a piano, which might be the fancy snorting surface Weeknd is referencing here.

The “ivory” is being cut into “skinny pieces” as in cutting the coke into skinny lines. Abel is proud of his girlfriend who is able to “clean” the cocaine (by snorting it) with her face close to the edge of the table.

Straight up!

#starboy #the weeknd #abel makkonen tesfaye #abelxo #xotwod #perspective #interpretation #hidden meaning #song lyrics #abel tesfaye #genius #depiction

[dominiquejohn56]

He always brings me flowers

like roses and lily’s

he always brings me flowers

and i take them and smile

he always brings me flowers

and continues with “i love you”

but

I do not like flowers

so every flower is just a reminder

that he doesn’t truly know me

#poetry #love #love poem #flowers #meaning #hidden meaning #know me