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In India, the shape is associated more with a mango than with a pine cone, and is called ambi, from āmra (Sanskrit: आम्र) meaning mango. Via Kashmir shawls it spread to Europe at least in the 19th century, where patterns using it are known since 1960s as paisleys , as Paisley, Renfrewshire in Scotland was a major centre imitating them.
The dream dictionary includes interpretations of dreams, giving each symbol in a dream a specific meaning. The argument of what dreams represent has greatly changed over time. With this changing, so have the interpretation of dreams. Dream dictionaries have changed in content since they were first published. The ancient Greeks and Romans saw ...
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece , dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention , whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers.
Antinous holding the thyrsus while posed as Dionysus (Museo Pio-Clementino). In Ancient Greece a thyrsus (/ ˈ θ ɜː r s ə s /) or thyrsos (/ ˈ θ ɜːr s ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: θύρσος) was a wand or staff of giant fennel (Ferula communis) covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and topped with a pine cone, artichoke, fennel, or by a bunch of vine-leaves and ...
Main illustration for the story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". Internal illustration from the pulp magazine Weird Tales (March 1938, vol. 31, no. 3, page 331).. A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.
In Dreams (ISBN 0-575-05201-5) is a 1992 anthology of science fiction and horror short stories, [1] 'a celebration of the 7-inch single in all-original SF and horror fiction'. It was edited by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman , and published by Gollancz .
The typology of categorization of dreams in Arabic literature of dream interpretation is noted for it close adherence to orthodox theological categories, and assumes an intimate relationship between dreaming and conventional expressions of devotional religious piety. Traditional Arabic books of dream-interpretation were composed by theologians.
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, best-known print of the series. Kinoe no Komatsu (喜能会之故真通) ('Young Pines' or 'Pine Seedlings on the First Rat Day' [1]), published in three volumes in 1814, is a woodblock-printed book of shunga erotica by Hokusai made within the ukiyo-e genre.