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  2. Aleph - Wikipedia

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    Despite the name it does not correspond to an aleph in cognate Semitic words, where the single "reed" hieroglyph is found instead. The phoneme is commonly transliterated by a symbol composed of two half-rings, in Unicode (as of version 5.1, in the Latin Extended-D range) encoded at U+A722 Ꜣ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF and U+A723 ...

  3. List of phoenixes in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), based on the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, a phoenix bursts into flame and flies over the grass in front of the White Witch's lines, forming a wall of flame to guard Peter's retreat to safer ground.

  4. Erlkönig - Wikipedia

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    The poem has often been set to music, with Franz Schubert's rendition, his Opus 1 (D. 328), being the best known. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Probably the next-best known is that of Carl Loewe (1818). Other notable settings are by members of Goethe's circle, including actress Corona Schröter (1782), Andreas Romberg (1793), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1794 ...

  5. Letter symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Letter symbolism is the study of the alphabet as a symbol, exploring its ability to represent analogically, convey meaning, and carry values beyond its practical or material function. It involves examining letters as symbols ( symbology ) or systems ( symbolic ), as well as their capacity for designation, meaning, and potential influence ...

  6. Cultural depictions of lions - Wikipedia

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    Lions are also found in Buddhist symbolism. Lion pillars erected during the reign of Emperor Ashoka show lions and the chakra emblem. The lions depicted in the Lion Capital of Ashoka inspired artists who designed the Emblem of India. Singh is an ancient Indian name meaning "lion", dating more than 2,000 years ago to ancient India. It was ...

  7. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.

  8. Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia

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    In 1891, Mallarmé defined Symbolism as follows, "To name an object is to suppress three-quarters of the delight of the poem, which consists in the pleasure of guessing little by little; to suggest is, that is the dream. It is the perfect use of this mystery that constitutes the symbol: to evoke an object, gradually in order to reveal a state ...

  9. Gryphon (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) - Wikipedia

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    The Gryphon appears to be somewhat overbearing and dismissive of the obsessions and dismays of other characters, such as the Mock Turtle's sorrow and the Queen of Hearts' executions, neither of which (according to the Gryphon) have any basis in fact. He speaks with a slightly ungrammatical Cockney-like accent and makes demands of the Mock ...