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  2. Cultural depictions of elephants - Wikipedia

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    To the royal sages, the white elephant signifies royal majesty and authority; they interpreted the dream as meaning that her child was destined for greatness as a universal monarch or a buddha. [7] Elephants remain an integral part of religion in South Asia and some are even featured in various religious practices. [8]

  3. The Elephants - Wikipedia

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    The Elephants Artist Salvador Dalí Year 1948 Medium Oil on canvas Movement Surrealism Dimensions 49 cm × 60 cm (19 in × 24 in) Location Private collection The Elephants is a 1948 painting by the Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Background The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a ...

  4. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a ...

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    The elephant is a distorted version of the Piazza della Minerva sculpture Elephant and Obelisk by Gian Lorenzo Bernini facing the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. [7] The smaller pomegranate floating between two droplets of water may symbolize Venus, especially because of the heart-shaped shadow it casts. [ 7 ]

  5. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    In a tweet from July 2024, Drew Daniel of electronic music duo Matmos described a fictional music genre he encountered in a dream entitled "hit em". Recounted to him by a nondescript woman in the dream, the genre is a type of electronic music "with super crunched out sounds" in a 5/4 time signature with a tempo of 212 beats per minute.

  6. Swans Reflecting Elephants - Wikipedia

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    Dalí used this method to bring forth the hallucinatory forms, double images and visual illusions that filled his paintings during the 1930s, most likely his most creative decade. [ 1 ] As with the earlier Metamorphosis of Narcissus , Swans Reflecting Elephants uses the reflection in a lake to create the double image seen in the painting.

  7. If You See an Elephant Statue at a Front Door, This Is What ...

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    That elephant statue has a deep symbolic meaning. The post If You See an Elephant Statue at a Front Door, This Is What It Means appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  8. The Dream (Rousseau) - Wikipedia

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    The Dream is the largest of the jungle paintings, measuring 6' 8½" × 9' 9½" (204.5 × 298.5 cm). It features an almost surreal portrait of Yadwigha (Jadwiga), Rousseau's Polish mistress from his youth, lying naked on a divan to the left of the painting, gazing over a landscape of lush jungle foliage, including lotus flowers , and animals ...

  9. Auspicious dreams in Jainism - Wikipedia

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    Auspicious dreams No. Digambara No. Śvetāmbara Name Image Dream Interpretation 1: 1 Airavata: White elephant with four tusks, similar to the elephant of the god Indra: Mother would give birth to a child with good character. The four tusk of elephant depicts the four components of Sangha: monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen. 2: 2 Vrishabha: Bull