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The Snow Child symbols - Coggle Diagram
The Snow Child symbols
animals
fox
slyness, cleverness, cunning, charming
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Japan: fertility, agriculture
raven
death, destruction, impending doom
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Pacific Northwest First Nation: creation, transformation, knowledge, prestige, unknown "Legend says the raven released the sun and moon from captivity, and discovered mankind in a clamshell."
Western culture: trickster, shape shifter
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Edgar Allen Poe: high intelligence, wise, clever
feather
First Nation: honor and a connection between the owner, the Creator, and the bird from which the feather came
black mare/horse
stamina, freedom, intellect, loyalty
nobility, divination, prophecy
Celts: death, dark forces, messenger of esoteric knowledge, keeper of secrets and mysteries, strength of maturity to handle what life brings
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clothing
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red shoes/heels
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King Louis XIV red-heeled shoes: nobility, wealth, authority
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nature
rose
Western: red rose love, budding youth romance
Greek myth Adonis & Aphrodite: first red roses were said to have sprung up from Adonis' blood as it soaked into the earth, staining the nearby white roses a deep crimson
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Christianity: Christ's blood shed at the crucifixion, resurrection, rebirth
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water
Shakespeare "Macbeth": purification, cleansing of sins
rebirth, transformation, movement, change
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Melville "Moby Dick": change, unpredictability, transformation journey
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Alchemy: mercury - mind and intuition, feminitity in alchemy
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snow
literature: metaphor for bleakness, desperation, death
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East Asian philosophies: uncontaminated, fresh
diamond
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Ancient Far East: ward off ill health, poverty, bad spirits
Ancient Hungary: talisman, protective spirit, healing stone
Crown jewel: domination, influence, superiority, power, status
Western: love, unbreakable bond
colors
white
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China/Korea: death, mourning
Cherokee: peace, happiness, South
black
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Cherokee: problems, death, West
red
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Western: blood, passion, emotion, danger, or daring
actions
reining in idiom: tighten control, restrain; homophone: reign - control with authority
stroking fur - comforting, affection
picking a flower: colloquial: pick a spot to hit, slap or kick
drop/throw a glove
throw: gesture of defiance, disrespect, insult
medieval times: throw down gauntlet (metal-plated glove), accept challenge or ignore and be a coward
1800s: used in flirting gestures, dropping 1 "yes", dropping both "I love you"
bowing - respect/humility, prostration/submission
necrophilia - sadistic act, absence of consent; fondness of corpses - mummification