Can someone tell me the spiritual symbols in the Lion, The Witch, and The wardrobe????
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The article below tells quite a few symbols. It's pretty well-written. You have to go down a few paragraphs before it starts listing the symbolism in more detail.
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This is rather vague... never read the book though... There are plenty of referances in the Bible to lamps and light... the most important being the symbolism of Jesus as the light and the way.  The lamp post itself is the way in and out of Narnia--- similar to Jesus as the way in and out of the Father's good graces.  "I am the way, the truth, the light.  No man come before the Father, but by me."
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yes i would care to know the deeper meaning to the story! it would interest me! good luck w/ ur research!
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1. Pretty much is God\n2. Green light - represents hope for gatsby that he will be w/ daisy\n3. owl eyes - i'm not sure about this one; probably the wise one?\n6. yellow car- probably represents corruption/ death... i mean it did kill myrtle.
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CS Lewis wrote it.\nIt is an allegory about the  purpose of Jesus Christ
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Put your faith in God and do good deeds. (just for the record I'm an atheist)\nNarnia is christian fantasy. Aslan is Jesus while Tash is the devil. \nBut on a further level it says that whatever your believe is, as long as your actions are true, your soul can still be saved.\nIf you have only watched the movie I'd suggest reading the books as only there does the moral message really become true.\nI found the end of the last book dissapointing and questionable since it implies that its completly ok for everyone to die since we'll meet them in heaven anyway.
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Yes, it coincides with the Bible.\n\nIt shows that god send himself in human form (Jesus, Asland) to die for the sinner (us, or Edmond.) and redeemed him (duh.) it coincides almost perfectly with the Calvinistic view.\n\nThe devil, or white witch, can pretend to be your friend while s/he stabs you in the back in reality. And s/he doesn't show his/her true point of view till it's too late.\n\nAslan says in the movie that he died, not because he had to, but to make a point. we (or Edmond) didn't force him to die, but he did it of his own will. this contradicts some Christians, but agrees with a lot of others.\n\nsin, of course, is bad. In the ,movie, you have to die for betrayal. In real life, you have to die for your sins. Asland/Jesus died to save you/Edmond from sin.\n\nI hope this answers. Unless you are a second grader, I don't think you'll be able to copy/paste this due to its unofficial style, so don't plagiarize. But I hope I helped you out here, kid.
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http://www.broadmanholman.com/cslewis/home.htm\nknock u socks off. hope it helps\nhttp://www.hollywoodjesus.com/narnia.htm
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The Bible\nChronicles of Narnia\nHobbit
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I LOVE the Narnia series and I'm totally excited about the new movie! I love the characters and the story, and how everything about it you can relate back to the Bible. Not many movies like that exist, and it's just all around beautiful, wholesome entertainment! Can't wait!
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I really really really love this question. I think you may just be right.They definitly have a greek/roman theme going. the god of love, the love carebear, grumpy carebear and the gods of war
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail.\n\nVillager: We have found a witch, may we burn her? \nCrowd: BURN!! BUUUURN HER! \nBedevere: But how do you *know* she is a witch? \nVillager: She looks like one! \nOther Villagers: Yeah! She looks like one!!! \nBedevere: Bring her forward. \n\n(a young woman is pushed through the crowd of villagers to the platform. She \nis dressed all in black, has a carrot tied around her face on top of her nose, \nand a black paper hat on her head. She talks funny because her nose is \nclosed by the carrot.) \n\nWitch: I'm not a witch, I'm not a witch! \nBedevere: Er,...but you are dressed as one. \nWitch: THEY dressed me up like this. \nVillagers: No! nooo! We didn't! We didn't! \nWitch: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one! \n\n(Bedevere lifts up the carrot to reveal the woman's real nose, which is in \nfact rather small.) \n\nBedevere: Well? \nOne Villager: Well, we did do the nose. \nBedevere: The nose? \nVillager: And the Hat. But she's a witch! \nVillagers: Yeah! Burn her! Burn! Burn her! \nBedevere: Did you dress her up like this? \nVillagers: NO! No, no, no, no, no, no... \nOne Villager: yes. \nVillagers: yes. yes. yes. A bit. yes. a bit. a bit. \nAnother Villager: (hopefully) She has got a wart... \nBedevere: What makes you think she is a witch? \nVillager: Well, She turned me into a newt!! \n\n(pause) \n\nBedevere: a newt? \n\n(long pause) \n\nVillager: I got better... \nVillagers: BURN HER anyway! BURN! BURN! BURN HER! \nBedevere: Quiet, quiet, quiet, QUIETA There are ways of *telling* whether she \nis a witch! \nVillagers: Are there? What? Tell us, then! Tell us! \nBedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches? \nV: BUUUURN!!!!! BUUUUUURRRRNN!!!!! You BURN them!!!! BURN!! \nBedevere: And what do you burn apart from witches? \nVillager: More Witches! \nOther Villager: Wood. \nBedevere: So. Why do witches burn? \n\n(long silence) \n(shuffling of feet by the villagers) \n\nVillager: (tentatively) Because they're made of.....wood? \nBedevere: Goooood! \nOther Villagers: oh yeah... oh.... \nBedevere: So. How do we tell whether she is made of wood? \nOne Villager: Build a bridge out of 'er! \nBedevere: Aah. But can you not also make bridges out of stone? \nVillagers: oh yeah. oh. umm... \nBedevere: Does wood sink in water? \nOne Villager: No! No, no, it floats! \nOther Villager: Throw her into the pond! \nVillagers: yaaaaaa! \n\n(when order is restored) \n\nBedevere: What also floats in water? \nVillager: Bread! \nAnother Villager: Apples! \nAnother Villager: Uh...very small rocks! \nAnother Villager: Cider! \nAnother Villager: Uh...great gravy! \nAnother Villager: Cherries! \nAnother Villager: Mud! \nAnother Villager: Churches! Churches! \nAnother Villager: Lead! Lead! \nKing Arthur: A Duck! \nVillagers: (in amazement) ooooooh! \nBedevere: exACTly! \nBedevere: (to a villager) So, *logically*... \nVillager: (very slowly, with pauses between each word) \nIf...she...weighs the same as a duck......she's made of wood. \nBedevere: and therefore... \n\n(pause) \n\nVillager: A Witch! \nAll Villagers: A WITCH! \n\n\n(they do consequently weigh her across from a duck on Bedevere's largest \nscale, and she does indeed weigh the same as the duck.)
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Important Symbols\n\n    * The Green Knight is holding a holly bob. Holly, an evergreen, is a pagan symbol used by Christians to celebrate Christmas. An evergreen was brought into the house on the winter solstice as a sign that greenery, i.e. spring, will come again. In this context, the holly bob is used by the Green Knight as a symbol of his peaceful intentions.\n    * That the story begins on Christmas and ends on New Year’s is also significant. As holy days, they are a symbol of the portentous nature of the actions that are taking place.\n    * The Green Knight himself is a symbol. With every article of clothing, skin, and hair colored green, he is reminiscent of a fertility god, perhaps related to wall paintings of The Green Man still found today in English churches.
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the books were written by Clive Staples Lewis, who was a Christian man and did a great deal of religious writing, like the Screwtape Letters.  By the way, that's a really good book.  You can see a great deal of religious themes in his books, such as in the first book, The Magician's Nephew, with the apple in the garden that he must take because Aslan bid him to, and not eat one himself or take one for his sick mother, as Jadis tells him to.  That would be the story of the Fall, Jadis being the Serpent.  Also, in the Last Battle, the seventh book in the series, there is that whole thing with Tash, the god of Calormen, and Aslan, the deity of Narnia. It's hard to explain, you'll just have to read, but it does look like it was influenced by the author's views on religion.  In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, we see the theme of faith without proof, a key in religion, in the part with Lucy and Tumnus and the others who don't beleive in Narnia at first.  Then when Aslan sacrifices himself to save Edmund,it is like Jesus dying to save us from hell.  He rises from the Stone Table as Jesus rose from the cave they sealed him in.\n\nHowever, C. S. Lewis has stated himself that he in no way intinded The Chronicles of Narnia to come across as religious works, merely a series of fairy tales written for Lucy, his neice or something like that.\n\nI think, however, that because he was such a religious man and had written a great deal of religious works, that in his tales, he subconsciously weaved a storyline that was very familiar to him, that of religion.  He wanted to make a good tale, and his subconscious mind associated religion with that, and thus the seemingly religious parts in his books.\n\nBut he did not intend, at least this is what he said, for Aslan to come across as a depiction of Jesus.
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OMG YES!! Just because it is a spiritual book does not mean that the stories in them are supposed to be taken literally...symbolism people! Good question.
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This is interesting...\n\nDIVINATION, MAGIC & OCCULTIC ACTIVITY IN THE BIBLE\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/divin_bibl.htm
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They used pictures for letters. on this website there is a table with all the symbols that represent each letter.\nb=leg\nd=hand sideways\ne=flag\nf=slug\ng=fan\nh= weird shape\nl=lion.........i think you get it, the pictures are better on the website\n\nhttp://www.kingtut-treasures.com/hiero.htm\ngood luck.