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137. Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Symbolic Representations of Chaos and Eninyang

What does the chaos of potential first differentiate itself into? And so i've listed some of the common symbols that are associated with these two realms. Now, it's a difficult thing to pin down, because what one of the symbols means has to be defined in relationship to the other. So for example, if you think about sky the the earth, in relationship to the sky, it's easy to make the earth feminine and the sky masculine. But if you contrast the earth with the water, then the water tends to be represented as feminine and the earth as masculine. The symbolicre representations can shift depending on the literary context es....

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