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mystical caves
Title: mystical caves
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1696 | Pages: 7.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
mystical caves
Mystical Caves Used Throughout Mythology
The use of caves in mythology to depict darkness and abandonment has
branded it as a symbol of chaos. From this perception other associations
are made which connect the cave to prejudices, malevolent spirits, burial
sites, sadness, resurrection and intimacy. It is a world to which only
few venture, and yet its mysticism has attracted the interest of
philosophers, religious figures and thinkers throughout history. These
myths are exemplified in …showed first 75 words of 1696 total…
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Life begins in the ‘womb’ of mother earth as two individuals conceive a
child within the shelter of a cave. Once grown, this adult may inhabit
this cave and use it as a place of residence himself, yet regardless of
the conquests and adventures which take place throughout his life, he is
eventually returned to the soil in the form of a grave, and is released
as a spirit back into the cave.
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