Symbols and gods

In many ancient religions, people believed in the existence of more than one god. Basing his beliefs on the perceived reality of many gods, goddesses and various supernatural beings. The gods were responsible for various aspects of life on Earth. Many symbols are found in legends and myths, which collectively play on various emotions.

A.F. Losev defined a sign as “the substantial identity of an idea and a thing”

Every symbol contains an image, but cannot be reduced to it, since it implies the presence of a certain meaning, inseparably fused with the image, but not identical to it. Image and meaning form two elements of a symbol, unthinkable without each other. Therefore, symbols exist as symbols (and not as things) only within interpretations.

In the 20th century, the neo-Kantian E. Cassirer generalized the concept of symbol and classified a wide class of cultural phenomena as “symbolic forms.” Such as language, myth, religion, art and science, through which man brings order to the chaos around him. In artistic creativity, the symbol is “objectified” through artistic tropes. A similar phenomenon in the Middle Ages was called a “symbolic connection” (lat. symbolic nexus).