1962 A Dictionary Of Symbols by J.E. Cirlot
Cirlot’s Dictionary of Symbols is a black tome that breathes like a wounded animal. You don’t flip pages—you stalk corridors of myth and the walls whisper at you.
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Labyrinth — a stone lung, pulling you in deeper with every turn. You don’t find the center, it finds you.
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Dragon — the first nightmare carved on a cave wall. Smoke, hunger, treasure, death. All kings keep one chained in their basement, or they lie about killing it.
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Tower — the pride of men piled brick on brick until the lightning splits it. It’s where you go to be alone with your madness.
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Serpent — two fangs, two destinies: poison or medicine. The coil that tightens when you ignore it.
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Mirror — silver surface, black mouth. Look long enough and it spits your soul back in pieces.
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Egg — fragile shell, infinite weight. Crack it gently and gods are born. Drop it and only silence comes out.
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Sword — the steel law of division. Friend from enemy, life from death, truth from illusion. A good sword never sleeps.
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Wheel — the grinding sound of eternity. Every spoke another chance, every turn another mistake.
Cirlot gathered these things like a scavenger in a battlefield, dragging back myths, alchemical glyphs, folk whispers, occult diagrams. He pinned them down alphabetically, but they still twitch under the glass
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