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wishbone brooch with mustard seed in lucite
#everyone in the notes like ‘what does this mean’ the wishbone & mustard seed are christian symbols like the fish but less common#but i’ve seen a lot of mustard seed jewelry. it’s about faith & how small a mustard seed is compared to the huge tree it becomes#brooch#jewelry#wishbone#mustard seeds#christianity
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Child of the force
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#I may have gone overboard with the christian symbolism on this one#but this was one of those ideas that you have to get out of your system by drawing them#star wars#my art#anakin skywalker#sw aotc#sw tpm#shmi skywalker
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“Some interpretations link owls to wisdom, drawing on cultural associations that existed in the ancient Near East. While in biblical symbolism, owls often represent desolation, loneliness, and abandonment. When the prophets speak of God’s judgment on nations, they frequently mention owls as inhabitants of the resulting ruins.”
#gravity falls#stanford pines#ford pines#art#fanart#my art#artists on tumblr#gravity falls fanart#m not christian but i Can appreciate some good symbolism#i listened to the deal by mitski while drawing this
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The Parca and the Angel of Death by Gustave Moreau
#gustave moreau#art#symbolism#symbolist#angel#sword#halo#wings#parcae#parca#apocalypse#apocalyptic#pagan#christian#horseman#death#angel of death#four horsemen of the apocalypse#mythology#destiny#the fates#roman religion#roman mythology#christianity#religion#religious#red moon#moon#sun#horse
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sacred heart
#absolutely no audience for christian themed saw art HAHAH its okay#its for me#its the closest to religious art i can get cuz where tf does Satan fit into this other than mark#whatever anyways#saw 2004#lawrence gordon#adam faulkner stanheight#chainshipping#cary elwes#leigh whannell#larry art tag#did a majority of this mid shift LOL#also like. sacred heart. follow ur heart. etc etc. the heart symbolism in saw makes me insane
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#polls#incognito polls#anonymous#tumblr polls#tumblr users#questions#polls about clothes#submitted nov 23#christianity#christian#religious symbols
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Biblical References in Both RDR games.
I love biblical references so much. When it comes to literature, it's probably my favorite type of symbolism. Like I genuinely get so happy when I connect things to the Bible which is what I'm going to do right now 😊😊 I also like the way that religion is incorporated into RDR as a whole, including the main characters' reaction to it.
So yup, here are just a few references or connections that I was able to make in no particular order.
Also, some of these are complete reaches and I'm aware of that, but fuck it, it's my blog and I do what I want 💪🏼
- The character and tragedy of Issac. In the Bible, Issac is the child of Abraham who is asked to be sacrificed by God by his father as a test of faith. God eventually intervenes to save Issac because he only wanted to test Abraham's faith. Dutch is shown as a God-like figure to the gang, as their devotion is to him. Arthur, indirectly, sacrifices Issac by not being there and by following what Dutch wanted. Arthur, Issac, and Dutch are parallels to Abraham, Issac, and God.
- Leviticus is the book that comes after the book of Exodus. After the gang's escape or exodus from Blackwater after the Blackwater massacre, they are met by Leviticus Cornwall, who becomes the next obstacle for the gang. After the gang's exodus, they get in trouble with Leviticus.
- The image of the deer and a mountain. Psalm 18:32-34 in the Bible says, "It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way blameless? He makes my feet like deers' feet, and sets me upon my high places." In Arthur's condemnation of Dutch, Micah, and their evil, he becomes steady in his identity and beliefs, like a deer's feet on a mountain, which is where he dies in the end. W symbolism.
- The mission "Sodom? Back to Gomorrah." In the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities that were so morally depraved and evil that God decided to destroy the both of them, saying that if there was even one good person in those cities, he'd spare them, but there weren't. In those missions, you also do two evil acts, going from one and then BACK to the other. You rob the bank and then go BACK to collect the debt from Edith Downes. So you finish one evil deed and to straight to the next. This can also show how morally bankrupt Arthur's apathy made him at this point in the game.
- Micah's guns say "Vengeance is hereby mine." This could be a reference to Roman's 12:19 "vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord." Micah's violent nature makes him take his anger out on the world.
- "Your father is seduced by him with the forked tongue. It's no use hoping." The blind prophet to Arthur. Pretty straight forward symbolism, it's a nod to the snake that seduced Eve, just like how Micah manipulates Dutch.
- Dutch walking away from Arthur when he dies and though he realizes his wrong doing and feels shame, his pride forbids him from apologizing or saying he was wrong. This can be a parallel to how Adam and Eve run away from God when they feel shame over believing in the snake, but their pride won't allow them to apologize to God, hence damning them like how Micah damned Dutch.
- There were twelve ACTIVE gang members before the Blackwater massacre. When I mean active, I mean gang members who are canonically consistent (so not uncle, Swanson, Strauss, or the girls) on going on jobs for the gang. Micah, Bill, Javier, John, Hosea, Arthur, Charles, Sean, Lenny, Josiah, Mac and Davey Callender. Christ had 12 disciples and Dutch is portrayed as a savior to the gang, or a Christ like figure. And would you look at that, there is a traitor in both groups of twelve (Micah and Judas).
- Both John and Arthur's graves have scripture from Jesus's sermon on the mountain (Matthew 5:1-12). John's is blessed are the peacemakers and Arthur's is blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
- The go back for the money ending. If you go back for the money and have low honor, you'll see that the camp is engulfed in flames as you try to get the money. The fight with Micah is brutal and you die faced down in the dark. This death is an allegory for going to either hell and purgatory as you choose a final evil act of leaving your brother to possibly die just so you can get money as an act of revenge. If you have high honor, you are still surrounded by flames, but you still have a chance at heaven given that you die facing up seeing the light one final time.
- The help John ending has similar connotations. If you have low honor, you die by gunshot and are shrouded in darkness, which can symbolize the absence of God's light and how Arthur's final act couldn't absolve the lack of guilt he feels for the rest of the actions that he KNOWS are evil (click here for a my interpretation of Arthur's morality). In high honor, though, you get to crawl to the mountain side and see the rising sun, symbolizing heaven, warmth, and a new purity.
- In low honor, the coyote goes down to a dark cave, representing damnation and the rejection of holy light. In high honor, the deer steps into a heavenly field of light. Love that so much to be honest.
- Just the very Catholic vibe of Arthur's redemption. Doing good deeds, feeling guilt, all that.
- John's new life is basically this: "Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need." -Ephesians 4:28. John gives up his old life to be an honest laborer, a rancher, and a proper man.
- The Strange Man in RDR rides on a donkey, which is pretty interesting because Jesus Christ also made his grand entry on a donkey.
- Just the Strange Man in general to be honest. Some say he's God, others say he's the Devil, and others say he's Cain from the Bible, which is my personal favorite theory but whatever.
- Dutch's horse could be a reference to Revelations 6:8- "And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him." Dutch's rash actions caused the death of the gang and RDR's incarnate of Hades or Hell was Micah, following him. Dutch is the only one, canonically, to have a pale horse.
- "Am I prepared for eternal damnation? Am I passed any kind of saving? Or is that just fairy tales?" Arthur in his journal. I love this line so much because of its very agnostic nature whilst still showing the Christian mindset of 1899 America. This line also shows that Arthur is canonically agnostic which is a yippee from me because it's like the only thing me and this man have in common lmao 😭
- "Bad news awaits you, sir. Sadly, sooner than you think. But beyond the news, paradise awaits. Paradise.." Blind Man Cassidy to Arthur. Sorry but I just love that. High honor Arthur lived such an awful life but he still has a chance at paradise and heaven? Love that so much.
- God (pun intended), I love biblical symbolism. Couldn't you tell?
#even if you aren't religious#so like me#I'd still recommend reading the bible at least once if you're a fan of western story telling#biblical references are literally EVERYWHERE#and getting them makes me feel like an english professer#and that's a pretty dope feeling#will also recommend reading a more queer affirming version of the bible if you're queer like me#anyways#fucking love biblical symbolism#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#character analysis#bible verse#bible scripture#biblical references#story analysis#christianity
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in the name of the father.
and of the son.
and of the holy spirit.
amen.
#closing my eyes as i press post#homestuck#john egbert#I DO NOT CONTROL THE JOHN EGBERT TO BIBLE SYMBOLISM#its always in my brain#disguisedtalking#OH i LOOOOOVE how the image color sequence are red green blue HA HA HA HA HA#i am normal about john egbert leave me alone#today in john egbert is christian/catholic(not hte same but im vibing)#roman catholic specifically(because im roman cahtolic)
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Title: The Knight St. George Artist: Hans Thoma (German, 1839-1924) Date: 1889 Genre: religious art Movement: Symbolism Medium: oil on cardboard Dimensions: 101 cm (39.7 in) high x 73 cm (28.7 in) wide Location: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
#art#art history#Hans Thoma#religious art#Christian art#Christianity#St. George#St. George and the Dragon#Symbolism#Symbolist art#German art#19th century art#oil on cardboard#Alte Nationalgalerie
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Caranthir
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#Caranthir#my love#silmarillion#silm#the silmarillion#tolkien#and finally the quest of completing all 7 of them goes on [epic music in the background]#i had a hard time constructing a card for caranthir and i quit all my previous ideas and just drew something that felt right#resulting in a piece that isnt really what i wanted but i had soo much fun drawing him <3#not much symbolism going on here but#i choose columbine on his mantle - as a symbol for grief and also self hatred as columbine stands for weakling#columbine is a loaded flower in christian symbolism - and as a parallel i feel like caranthir is quite religious#like staying true to customs and traditions and seeking help in prayers to Eru as a way to control his wild emotions#i have to stop here - this is a rabbithole 8'D
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“the past is a grotesque animal” 8” x 10” canvas with acrylic paint, crayon, oil pastel, posca pen, & nail polish
i started this one the same day i started the last one if it wasn’t obvious by the theme of fan being the focus and an of montreal song being the inspiration,,, i just finished this one later because it’s bigger & i WANTED to use clay on this but i don’t know where my clay is….. MAYBE I’LL FIND IT NEXT TIME!!!!!! (HOPEFULLY) ALSO i know this one’s more choppy and messy and not as clean/flat colored as the last painting but that was SORT OF the point and also I REALLY DONT LIKE PAINTING LAYERS IT TAKES TOO LONG AND I AM VERY IMPATIENT … so i use crayon instead heheh
other versions as well!!!!! this time i put the non-shiny/glittery one as a secondary variation because the quality is SO BAD AND IT SCREWED THE COLORS UP . also kind of figured out how to get the glow in the dark to show up on camera … it’s brighter in real life & i had to use SO MANY FILTERS just 4 that 2 show up…….
#inanimate insanity#ii#ii fan#fan ii#ii mephone4#mephone4 ii#ii test tube#test tube ii#ii bot#bot ii#ii egg#ii baby shimmer#ii shimmers#I GUESS#?????#artists on tumblr#jacks arts#can you guys guess who one of my favourite ii characters is (impossible)#I DO HAVE SOME THOUGHT PUT INTO THIS AND THE SYMBOLISM MORE THAN THE LAST ONE!!!! both pieces relate to the egg and test tube in some way#this piece also related to mephone and goes heavy with. religious imagery i guess??? i’m not christian and i’ve never read the bible idk#2 be honest i just like drawing fan like a kicked puppy
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'The Sun Stone', Early Christian Cross with Pictish Influenced Design, Govan Old Stones Collection, Old Govan, Glasgow, Scotland
#early religion#Pictish#pict#picts#archaeology#ancient living#ancient craft#ancient culture#symbols#sun#sun motif#stonework#stone carving#Scotland#Glasgow#early christianity#cross shaft
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The Exorcists’ Masks of Virtue
The vast majority of Exorcists in Hazbin Hotel have a notable design element that other angels don’t: their masks are missing an eye. Specifically, the right eye.
I believe this is a reference to the Bible, Matthew 5:29. Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”
He’s being hyperbolic. Mr Free Healthcare was not pro-mutilation. What he means is that you have to be willing to make sacrifices to prevent sin. The context of the eye metaphor is him condemning adultery and warning that even something as easy, casual and small as a look full of lustful intent can lead to further, worse sin if you don’t notice your sin, hold yourself accountable for it and do the work to not let it influence your decisions. This will probably be hard. It could be very, very painful. Changing your perspective can feel as horrible as plucking out your eye, so many people can’t bring themselves to do it. But although it won’t feel that way in the moment, it’s healthier for our general wellbeing in the long run to abandon traits and behaviours that damage ourselves and/or others.
(You may notice that Jesus’s teaching that you can have sinned, redeem yourself by giving up sin and thus escape damnation is the founding principle of the Hazbin Hotel. You may also notice that it contradicts everything the Exorcists believe.)
The Exorcists seem to follow this idea of painfully excising badness for the sake of the greater good devoutly to the point of placing it above teachings like ‘Thou shalt not kill’, with their job being to remove sin, in the form of sinners, to protect Heaven. Hence the missing right eyes. They’re a declaration of moral righteousness and inability to stumble.
But the truth is that the Exorcists all have their right eyes. Their flawlessness is a facade. Underneath, they are untouched, think themselves morally untouchable and, as shown by their horror and outrage when even one of them is killed, would much rather be physically untouchable too. This perfectly represents their complete unwillingness to acknowledge their own faults, let alone improve. They are never the ones who sacrifice. They force the sinners to sacrifice and don’t compensate it with any salvation. They metaphorically rip out the sinners’ eyes, but still condemn their entire bodies as inherently, permanently sinful. So they’ll just have to do another Extermination to get the other eyes! And another one to cut off their right hands! And so on until there’s nothing left.
The only exception to the rule is Vaggie, both in appearance and character. Her mask has the left eye crossed out instead. Even before her expulsion, she’s set apart to the audience as an Exorcist who has the capacity to, shall we say, see a different side of things. Her mask having its ‘sinful’ right eye reflects her understanding that the Exorcist worldview is wrong.
When she almost kills a demon child, her hateful vision clears. She discards the part of herself that’s an unquestioning, merciless agent of death, terror and grief… and as punishment for what Lute perceives as treacherous weakness, gets her eye plucked out.
Of course Lute leaves her with only the ‘sinful’ eye. It brands Vaggie forever as the inversion, a perversion, of what the Exorcists are meant to be.
You know, all this talk of eye removal in the Bible reminds me of another line - ‘an eye for an eye’. Adam directly quotes it in “Hell is Forever”. He uses it to frame the Exterminations as Old Testament-style punitive justice; the sinners did harm and so they receive it. But putting aside the debate about how ethical the concept of revenge is, the entire point of taking an eye for an eye is that it’s proportional. The punishment fits the crime. If someone cuts your eye out, you shouldn’t murder their whole family in front of them and then slowly disembowel them to death. That would be the sin of wrath. You should just make them pay without excessive pain or collateral damage. This is the fairest form of revenge.
The Exorcists don’t do that! The Exterminations aren’t proportional to the wrongs of all they hurt, nor was Vaggie’s brutal punishment equivalent to her extremely mild insubordination. Lute literally takes Vaggie’s eye, and more, after Vaggie does nothing to her! That’s the opposite of the phrase! Adam and his soldiers are wrathful and cruel, deriving satisfaction from others’ suffering. But they just can’t stop going on and on about how disgustingly evil the sinners are, in total hypocrisy… despite some of the sinners being far better people than the genocidal Exorcists are… it’s like they’re obsessed with specks of dust in the sinners’ eyes when they have massive logs stuck in their own. Oh hey, that’s in the Bible too!
#both emotionally and symbolically i am rooting for vaggie or charlie to take out one of lute’s eyes#i was like ‘cool vaggie’s missing the opposite eye to her former mask!’#and then i went back and saw that her mask was also different#and then i went down a rabbit hole of biblical mentions of bad things happening to eyes#i know god and jesus (and the holy spirit) probably won’t appear in the show#at least not in person#but i do cherish the mental image of adam and his genocidal army hanging out#when jesus christ bursts in with a whip#and gets all ‘you have made my father’s house into a den of thieves’ on them but an order of magnitude more intense#because HE SAID LOVE ONE ANOTHER#WHERE IS THE LOVE#HE SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED IT#i’m not christian! i’m a hardcore atheist!#religion is just as fictious to me as egyptian mythology#however i am also autistic and have major special interests in mythology and folklore#so here i am fervently writing analysis of the sermon on the mount#hazbin hotel#hazbin vaggie#hazbin hotel vaggie#vaggie#hazbin hotel exorcists#hazbin exorcists#hazbin hotel analysis#hazbin analysis
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oh waiter, more Christian symbolism please! anyways, the glass behind Viktor looking like a halo is so crazy,,, esp a three-point halo, which is the traditional halo for Jesus Himself. Viktor is taking on that Christ-like role, but in doing so, i worry about his potential martyrdom.
#Jinx and Viktor Christian symbolism save me#save me Jinx and Viktor Christian symbolism#arcane#arcane league of legends#viktor#viktor arcane#arcane spoilers#arcane season 2
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Glory to the Hero by Nicholas Roerich
#nicholas roerich#art#symbolism#russian#russia#christianity#christian#religion#religious#europe#european#history#symbolist#church#churches#stained glass#saint#saints#hero#heroes#holy#spiritual#nun
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amanda young as a metaphor for how evangelical christianity can fuck you up. the 'rebirth' of the reverse bear trap. the narrative that what hurt you was also what saved you. the father figure viewed as omnipotent who one day leaves you in the dirt with the others all the same. the idea that for your life to have meaning you must devote yourself to a mission of spreading the doctrine you believe to be your salvation. you were dirty, now you're not. you were tainted, now you're not. you are special now, you are chosen, you have a greater purpose. do not question, it is not your place. be grateful for the second chance you've been given, the second life you're living. this is who you really are, deep down inside. aren't you glad you were taught to find it?
#saw#saw franchise#amanda young#ex christian#the Symbolism man#pigeon.txt#religious trauma#sorry for sawposting on main do you still think I'm cool
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