Because the eagle flies so high in the sky, it's considered the "king of the skies" and a messenger to the highest gods. Because eagles live and fly so incredibly high in the sky, it's rare to see one ...

Black cats have long been considered bad luck dating all the way to 1233 with Pope Gregory IX. Find out the history behind the symbolism of what a black cat means. Cats pop up in folklore and history ...

A show of Symbolist paintings at the Guggenheim makes it clear that 19th-century France had an infinitely more interesting fin-de-siècle flip-out than we did in the 20th. Péladan was a writer whose ...

Dragons are powerful spiritual representations. They have a long and storied history in many different cultures in the world. Whether dragons are four-legged, indomitable beasts as depicted in Europe, ...

It was 1963, and 16-year-old Bruce McAllister was sick of symbol-hunting in English class. Rather than quarrel with his teacher, he went straight to the source: McAllister mailed a crude, ...

Symbolism in Nez Perce / Haruo Aoki -- Nootkan vocative vocalism and its implications / William H. Jacobsen -- Relative motivation in denotational and indexical sound symbolism of Wasco-Wishram ...