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allegories

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of Allegory

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According to one such theory, myths began as allegories for natural phenomena: Apollo represents the sun, Poseidon represents water, and so on. Source: Internet

After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions of post-war suffering, including his 1948 Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire. Source: Internet

British traveller Davis Ross, in his travelogues of 1881–82, ‘refers to him as “the author of some of the most popular moral tales, allegories, and ballad.” Source: Internet

At the dawn of the millennium, Muslim women in films like Refugee (2000) and Gadar (2001) were less fully-realised characters than heavy-handed allegories about the trauma and futility of war. Source: Internet

Dispensational collapsible main ;Hermeneutics: Interpretation as the "plain meaning" implies (i.e. rejection of typological and allegorical methods, although not rejecting types or allegories as being present in the Scriptures per se). Source: Internet

Epic narratives, poems, sagas and allegories from all cultures tell such gripping tales that they have inspired countless other stories in all forms of entertainment. Source: Internet

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