ROSE (2015) Painting by Polina Ogiy

ROSE-Perfect, perfect flower.Very complex character. Ambivalent. One of the most common mytho-poetic images. Within a diverse and capacious "flower" code rose occupies a leading position. In ancient times, rose has been linked joy, and later — secrecy, silence, and love. The latest figure was the most stable element of the symbol of the rose. However, in Greece, Rome, China, and later in some German-speaking countries rose became the flower associated with funerals, death. Often it was turned into the flower of the afterlife Kingdom. A more complete set of symbolic meanings of roses include: beauty, perfection, grace, joy, love, pleasure, praise, fame, splendor, bliss, aroma, plamennoi, pride, wisdom, prayer, meditation, the secret, the mystery, the silence. Rose can act as a symbol of the sun, the stars, the goddess of love and beauty, women (mainly beautiful women; not by chance a large variety of "pink" names: rose, Rosina, Rosita, Rosetta, Rosalia, Rosalind, Rosamund, Rosablanca, etc.). Together with the Lily takes place East of the Lotus — mystic rose — its symbolic counterpart. Rose represents the West, as well as Lotus East and the chrysanthemum — the far East. "Wind rose" is drawn in the form of a circle enclosing a double cross, symbolizing the four cardinal directions together with the interim directions, thus it shares the symbolic meaning of a circle, centre, cross and solar wheel rays. "Rose Garden" is a symbol of Paradise and mystical marriage, the unity of opposites. Heraldic rose with five petals is a symbolic analog of the pentagram and friends characters. Silence is required at initiation, free thought, free from the prejudices and superstitions,— the General symbols for the images of roses on the locks of the Church vaults, transformer in the round medallions on the ceilings. This same value is used in the emblems of political parties. The language of flowers says about love. White — love sighs; pink — oath of love; tea — courtship; bright red — passionate love, admiration of beauty. rose since ancient times has been the subject of a tender offering. Reliably established that less than half of I Millennium BC. in China, the middle East, in Egypt and later in Greece and Rome, and then and on all continents, the rose has already received wide spread as an ornamental, and enjoy the fragrance of a flower. The name he gave the island of Rhodes, because they grew a great variety of these flowers. Queen of the flowers. Therefore, the rose is an attribute of a beautiful woman (on the East of Eden rose, Sharon). The scent of roses had a wholesome effect on the soul and on the heart. preserved tradition to throw flowers at the feet of the processions, to throw flowers on the heads of the bride and groom... Christian mysticism, and mystery of other cultures which preceded it — all of them strikingly coincide in honoring roses, whether it's a folk song, a pious legend or medieval paintings; Mary, mother of God, always sits in the rose garden or rose bushes. The cross in combination with five petals becomes a symbol of Resurrection and joy. If the top of the cross there are three roses, and in the bottom (not on the cross) four more, it means happy Union of the spiritual (heavenly, divine) the world denoted by the triad, with the lower, earthly, mortal world, which is signified by the number four. Basic values In our time, the rose is an attribute of sympathy, of love, of the desire of man to woman. Immaculate, model a flower in the Western tradition. maiden innocence, stubbornness. change, change, death, resurrection from the dead... poetic inspiration love, spring, beauty, youth; the attribute of goddesses of love, fertility, dawn, spring: heart, center of the universe, cosmic wheels, love — divine, romantic and sensual mystery, silence and secrecy, ordinances, heavenly perfection and earthly passion; time and eternity; life and death, fertility and virginity.

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