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Les symboles du passage : la porte et l’escalier
Symbols of passage: the gate and the stairs

Author(s): Crina-Magdalena Zărnescu
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Fantasy; Portal; Gate; Stairs; Symbol; Myth; Fractal.

Summary/Abstract: The universe has since time immemorial been considered unique and unitary. The visible meets the invisible, the sensorial meets the intelligible, the sacred meets the profane, the human meets the divine. There are spaces of communication, of passage, of correspondence where humans comes into contact with the cosmos by an imagined hereafter which makes them aware of a genuine fundamental unity. This paper analyses some passage symbols as the gate and the stairs, whose semantic is rendered even more intense by their encounter with the myth on the diachronic-vertical axis and with arts on the synchronic-horizontal axis.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 99-104
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French