AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Download dream about losing teeth10/4/2023 Teeth are the instruments whereby their owner takes possession of something and even assimilates it. Persian love-poetry is like that of Europe in comparing the teeth with pearls or with the fixed stars, as well as with hail-stones. The second-sighted bard or hero placed his thumb on his wisdom tooth, bit it, sang a verse and offered sacrifice to the gods. In Ireland, literary sources show the wisdom tooth being used in a spell known as the teinm laegda, or poetic enlightenment. In Vedic tradition, the teeth are endowed with much the same significance, and especially the canines, of which the aggressive strength needs to be controlled. It is the loss of the life force, since healthy, well-furnished jaws are evidence of manly strength and self-confidence. Toothlessness is the sign of the loss of youth and of the loss of the strength both to attack and to defend oneself: it is a symbol of frustration, castration and bankruptcy. The molars, ‘symbols of protection’, are a sign of endurance and perseverance and ‘those with strong molars are regarded as sticking obstinately to their opinions’. They appear in the foreground when the lips are parted in laughter and hence are also a sign of happiness and are regarded as giving speech a cheerful and youthful attraction.’ The canines are a sign of hard work as well as of relentlessness and of hatred. The Bambara separate the teeth into three groups - incisors, canines and molars - with different symbolic functions. The Bambara draw a correspondence between teeth and eyes, both being similarly associated with concepts of intellect and the universe.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |