All 17 Uses
abyss
in
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar.†
p. 22.7 *abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- Beneath this spot is the earth-supporting head of the cosmic serpent, the dragon, symbolical of the waters of the abyss, which are the divine life-creative energy and substance of the demiurge, the world-generative aspect of immortal being.†
p. 32.5abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- The frog, the little dragon, is the nursery counterpart of the underworld serpent whose head supports the earth and who represents the life-progenitive, demiurgic powers of the abyss.†
p. 43.8
- Psyche was ordered, finally, to bring from the abyss of the underworld a box full of supernatural beauty.†
p. 82.1
- And the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel recorded, a century later (April 13, 1844): "In my dream I was being drawn with great force through the sea; there were terrifying abysses, with here and there a rock to which it was possible to hold.†
p. 85.3abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- The sleeping castle is that ultimate abyss to which the descending consciousness submerges in dream, where the individual life is on the point of dissolving into undifferentiated energy: and it would be death to dissolve; yet death, also, to lack the fire.†
p. 148.9abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- The powers of the abyss are not to be challenged lightly.†
p. 175.6
- If the Christian cross is the most telling symbol of the mythological passage into the abyss of death, the shimenawa is the simplest sign of the resurrection.†
p. 184.2
- As in the actual experience of every living being, so in the grandiose figure of the living cosmos: in the abyss of sleep the energies are refreshed, in the work of the day they are exhausted; the life of the universe runs down and must be renewed.†
p. 228.2
- The final insult here is given in the characterization of the demiurgic presence of the abyss as "evil,"†
p. 243.4
- * Ginnungagap, the void, the abyss of chaos into which all devolves at the end of the cycle ("Twilight of the Gods") and out of which then all appears aga n after a timeless age of reincubation.†
p. 243.9
- In the Babylonian version the hero is Marduk, the sun-god; the victim is Tiamat—terrifying, dragon-like, attended by swarms of demons—a female personification of the original abyss itself: chaos as the mother of the gods, but now the menace of the world.†
p. 245.5
- The symbolic, dream-heavy parental figures subsided into the original abyss.†
p. 264.2
- Her womb, remaining fallow as the primordial abyss, summons to itself by its very readiness the original power that fertilized the void.†
p. 264.9
- His second, then, is to return from that abyss to the plane of contemporary life, there to serve as a human transformer of demiurgic potentials.†
p. 276.2
- The summit of the tree rose over the seven heaven-floors and served as a tethering post for the High God, Yryn-ai-tojon; while the roots penetrated into the subterranean abysses, where they formed the pillars of the dwellings of the mythical creatures proper to that zone.†
p. 287.9abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- Whereupon he was admitted, together with his faithful companion, to the "Ninth Abyss.†
p. 318.2abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
Definitions:
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(1)
(abyss) a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)