The moon is a well-known symbol of Our Lady. Two meanings especially have been popular. In comparison with Christ, who is called sol invictus, Mary is the moon who receives grace and glory from Christ ...
Are fictions pure chimeras, or do they indicate our ability to resist complete reduction to what Mallarmé calls “merely empty forms ... as it may have taken place—but may not have, except in a banally ...
One would be hard pressed to find a better example of a highly evocative national symbol than the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mexico ... If that sacred event guaranteed a rightful place to the Indians in ...
This fall, like every year, whole families in Lebanon are traveling to their villages of origin to pick a fruit that has long been a national symbol. As they harvest, Israeli bombs and Hezbollah ...