Symbols - What does heaven look like
Necklace
A necklace was originally as it sounds - lace at the neck, as such it takes most of its symbolism from the same source as the collar and ruff and the Dish and Plate, all symbols of beheading.
The symbolism can mean that the person has managed to master their bodily sensations and/or that by doing so they had achieved spiritual experiences and are thus in touch with their Higher spirit. It thus becomes by extension a symbol of ‘enlightenment’ .
There is added symbolism when the necklace is made of materials that help achieve experiences because of their resonant properties - see stimulation via resonance. Bone, crystal and so on all have resonant properties and are thus capable of helping attain experiences.
Pearl necklaces take on the added symbolism of pearls.
Observations
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- CICOM Museum - Mayan - The sorceror
- Da Vinci, Leonardo - Beautiful women - La Belle Ferroniere
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Arguing with my imaginary friend in the alley
- Healer H - Bracelets and necklaces
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Bull and Twin horns
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - At Dhú Salam and the monastery
- Indus valley - Dholavira - 07 The ‘Hemispherical Constructions’
- Indus valley - Mehrgarh
- Indus valley - Mohenjo-Daro - 06 The Dancing girl or Deva-dasi
- Indus valley - Mohenjo-Daro - 09 The Seven-stranded necklace
- Kahuna - The symbolic use of Lianas and Vines
- Karnataka and South India - 07 Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple
- Khnopff, Fernand - Head of a Woman
- Klimt - Allegory of Sculpture
- Klimt - Judith and Holofernes
- Krishna and kite
- Lalla - Who’s the garland maker, who’s his wife
- Leighton, Frederick Lord
- Levy-Dhurmer - Mystère ou La femme à la médaille
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 07 Sex
- Millais, John Everett - the Huguenot
- Mucha, Alphonse - Zodiac
- Myōe – The dream of Vairocana and the queen
- Palenque - Mayan - Lady Zak Kuk
- Palenque - Mayan - Wall panels and inscriptions
- Popol Vuh Museum - Guatemala city - 'Priest'
- Popol Vuh Museum - Guatemala city - Sorceror
- Rops, Felicien - the Rocking horse
- Rops, Felicien – Pornokrates
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Portraits of Fanny Cornforth 1
- Rubens - Judith with the head of Holofernes
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Bull
- Song of Solomon 1
- Soustelle - Aztecs and Mexica - The Making of a High Priestess
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 3122
- Taq Bostan 02
- The Means of achieving spiritual experience - Shaivism – 16 Being naked in the sun
- Tikal - Mayan - Stela 16
- Tree, Isabella - Sliced Iguana – 01 Isabella tries peyote
- Ur - Nannar statue 2000 BC and purse or bag
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1906 Salome
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Belts