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  • Meaning in Myth (symbolism menu)

Nature Menu

• Animal menu

• Time, Order and the Cosmos 
  • Numbers in Buddhist scripture & practice
  • Time: eons, ages, the year 
    • practice calendar
    • special days
  • Moon
  • Eclipses

   

• Elements
  • Earth, Earthquakes
    • Mountain: Meru and Kailash
  • Air
    • Rainbows and Glories
    • Thunder
  • Fire
    • Widow-burning, ie. suttee
    • Fire Deities
  • Water
    • shells: conch, cowry
    • Manimekhala, a southern Buddhist ocean deity
    • Mazu or Lin Mo, a Chinese deity 

     

• Plants, Flowers and Trees
  • Kusha or kusa grass
  • Lotus flowers, including
    • lotus deities
  • Trees such as Pipul, Bodhi, Banyan or Nyagrodha, Sal, Ashok
    • Honey & Nectar
  • Rice, including
    • a Jataka, A Seer of Rice

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