Salt, a universal symbol: traditions, rituals, and spirituality across cultures.
Springs are known to have been important to prehistoric people all over the world, but not just for practical reasons. They were widely understood to provide more than just a supply of drinking water for people, game and domestic animals. Water was seen as a reflector of images and thence a mirror on, and symbol of, life itself. But disturb the
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Whereas one’s cosmology provides a context for ecology within the nature of the universe, one’s ontological assumptions and perspectives take into consideration the nature of being, existence, reality, and relationships between all things. One ontological or spiritual stance is that all individual minds, human and nonhuman, participate in a
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Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. That’s at the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deemed worthy of representing something bigger than ourselves. Some rituals are very private, some are very public. Some are so commonplace we don’t even
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1. Philosophie et Symbolisme
- Connexion au Divin : Depuis l’Antiquité, les parfums sont perçus comme un moyen d’entrer en contact avec le sacré. Leur volatilité et leur capacité à se dissiper dans l’air ont toujours été associées à la présence des dieux ou à la communication avec
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