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The 29 pages that link to Symbol, each with the reason it gives.

• RitualRelated: Ritual objects and gestures communicate meanings through shared associations.

• MythRelated: Mythic symbols let concrete images carry ideas about power, death, and renewal.

• CultureRelated: Symbols let groups communicate meanings that cultural members learn to share.

• MythopoeiaRelated: Mythopoeic worlds use symbols to connect fictional events with broader meanings.

• Thick descriptionRelated: Cultural actions can function as symbols whose meanings depend on shared conventions.

• CommunicationRelated: Words and many gestures communicate because people learn what they symbolize.

• Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRelated: Coleridge’s theory of the symbol links concrete poetic images with larger ideas.

• SubcultureRelated: Clothing, language, and objects can signal subcultural belonging.

• AmuletRelated: Images and inscriptions can make an amulet legible as a protective object.

• ArchetypeRelated: Symbols give archetypes forms that can be experienced and interpreted.

• Cultural changeRelated: Shifts in symbols can register broader changes in collective meaning.

• Religious ritualRelated: Ritual actions and objects communicate religious meanings through shared associations.

• Active imaginationRelated: Jungian practice treats inner images as symbolic expressions rather than fixed signs.

• Religious iconographyRelated: Religious motifs often communicate meanings through shared symbolic associations.

• Paul RicœurRelated: Ricœur's early philosophy treated symbols as expressions that invite interpretation and reflection.

• Culture (social anthropology)Related: Shared symbols let cultural meanings travel beyond direct experience.

• Sexual ritualRelated: Symbolic meanings can distinguish ritual sex from ordinary sexual activity.