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The 3,000-year-old Uffington White Horse hill figure in England.. White horses have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot, [1] with warrior-heroes, with fertility (in both mare and stallion manifestations), or with an end-of-time saviour, but other interpretations exist as well.
The white horse is the most popular in this role, with Henri IV of France's famous white horse undoubtedly a factor: it "attracts the eye and focuses attention". What's more, the symbolism of the white coat is more charged than with horses of other colors. [120]
Hanns Kurth's dream dictionary interprets the horse in relation to psychic and erotic life. Riding a white horse is a sign of luck and success, while riding a black horse is a sign of fleeting success. The animal can have very broad meanings depending on the context: it signifies freedom if seen in a meadow, ease in the stable, and presages ...
It is an inversion of the usual symbolism of the color white, a "deceptive appearance" and a "confusion of genders". [20] Many also see it as an archetype of the horses of death, the blanque mare sharing the same symbolism as the Bian cheval des Vosges or the German Schimmelreiter , [ 21 ] [ 22 ] an animal of marine catastrophe that breaks ...
This symbolism should be seen in the broader context of the Nordic pagan vision of death as part of a whole and a cycle, [79] in association with hippomancy, divination using horses. [80] Many horses were servants or harbingers of death. The Vatnsdœla saga tells of Thorkell Silfri's dream of a red horse.
Blóðughófi, Freyr's horse [2] Falhófnir, a horse of the gods [3] Glað, a horse of the gods [4] Glær, a horse listed in both the Grímnismál and Gylfaginning [5] Grani, the horse of Sigurð [6] Gulltoppr, the horse of Heimdallr [7] Gyllir, a horse whose name translates to "the golden coloured one" [8] Hamskerpir and Garðrofa, the parents ...
The White Horse on Cheriton Hill above Folkestone, Kent, has been transformed into Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer in the run-up to Christmas. [Gareth Fuller/PA Media]
The Uffington White Horse. Horse worship is a spiritual practice with archaeological evidence of its existence during the Iron Age and, in some places, as far back as the Bronze Age. The horse was seen as divine, as a sacred animal associated with a particular deity, or as a totem animal impersonating the king or warrior.