ANDROGYNE SYMBOLS
IN WORLD RELIGIONS
Androgyny has been a primal symbol in world religions since
the Stone Age. The image of divine male & divine female, conjoined
as one being, represents the perennial teaching of nonduality. The
best-known visual images of this teaching include the Lingam-Yoni alter
of Hinduism and the Male-Female bodies of Alchemy. However, other
forms of Androgyny are present in spiritual traditions of the Old Stone
Age, the New Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the early Iron Age; and are
present today in the living traditions of the Kabbalah, Tantra, Shinto, etc.
Graham has been lecturing on this symbolism since the 1970s, when he
surprised the contemporary world of psychology, anthropology, & religious
studies with two major discoveries: 1) Androgyne symbols have been
present in the great world religions since the Old Stone Age, and continue
today in the esoteric teachings of the world religions of today, in what appears
to be an unbroken continuity; and 2) the classic form of the perennial Androgyne images in the sacred art of the East & the West (male on the proper right side
of the one body & female on the proper left side of the one body) has a one-to-one
correspondence with the left-right brain.
Topics:
- Androgyne Symbols of the Old Stone Age
- Androgyne Symbols of the New Stone Age
- Androgyne Symbols of the Bronze Age
- Androgyne Symbols in Greece & Rome
- Androgyne Symbols in India
- Androgyne Symbols in China & Japan
- Androgyne Symbols in Modern Art
The textbooks are E. Zolla, THE ANDROGYNE, Thames & Hudson, 1981; &
Lanier Graham, THE ANDROGYNE IN WORLD ART, World Art Press,
1976, 1979, 1996.
Course Bibliography
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