So, I almost wrote my senior thesis on the hand as symbol.\u00a0 Here are my old notes! What do you think of this?<\/p>\n
Religious<\/p>\n
a) Hands = where we carry our souls.<\/p>\n
b) gesture an important part of worship.<\/p>\n
c) Hand: only symbol for God used during first 8 centuries of the church; represents God as creator and sustainer of all; see Deut. 3:23-24, Ezra 8:21-23, 1 Pet. 5:6. Hand: symbol of God\u2019s power, from Exodus and Psalms.<\/p>\n
d) Hamsa – hand as amulet<\/p>\n
e) hands to work, hearts to God<\/p>\n
Counterculture to Industry<\/p>\n
a) persistence of hand work in mechanized age; image of hand as symbol of hand work; hand work as symbol of resistance, protest against conformity?<\/p>\n
b) motif of the hand (esp. in textiles but also elsewhere) and its possible relationship to the craft movement, as an opposition to the industrial revolution.<\/p>\n
Identity<\/p>\n
a) aboriginal paintings using pigment sprayed over hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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