Funerary and mythic symbolism
Living symbols indexed under this named context. This page gathers catalog references; it does not define the whole tradition or erase differences among communities and practitioners.
9 symbols
Cupressus sempervirens
A narrow evergreen associated with mourning, cemeteries, immortality, the underworld, and life held upright beside death.
Accipitridae
A high-flying raptor used to represent sky power, divine authority, solar ascent, empire, and clear spiritual vision.
Vitis vinifera
A cultivated vine associated with joy, covenant, divine life, blood, ecstatic transformation, community, and the moral use of abundance.
Hedera helix
An evergreen climbing plant associated with Dionysian ecstasy, fidelity, attachment, eternal life, and vegetation that persists through winter.
Quercus
A long-lived, storm-resistant tree associated with divine authority, thunder, endurance, hospitality, and sacred gathering places.
Pavo cristatus
A brilliantly patterned bird associated with beauty, royal splendor, divine warfare, watchfulness, immortality, and transformed poison.
Pinus
An evergreen conifer associated with longevity, winter resilience, fidelity, purification, and a place prepared for divine arrival.
Papaver
A delicate flower associated with sleep, death, fertility, consolation, oblivion, and public remembrance of lives lost.
Rosa
A fragrant thorned flower associated with love, beauty, divine longing, martyrdom, secrecy, grief, and the unfolding of the sacred heart.