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Ants
| 1795 ants | watercolor
| 50x70 cm
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Ants
are animals attached to the earth (the Earth
as a symbol of the archetype of the Great
Mother), and are, therefore, expressions
of a dimension of the feminine. Judging
by their meaning in the Psyche myth, they
represent the male of the female (the male
of the Great Mother), probably because of
their laborious and methodical activity.
In the myth, they participate in the first
task attributed to Psyche by Aphrodite,
helping her to categorize the numerous grains
mixed and accumulated on a hill.
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this, they symbolize a function of discernment,
an aspect of thinking (classifying, separating
and distributing into categories, separating
the chaff from wheat), something important
in the course of a woman's psychological
development.
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Moreover,
because of their patient activity, they
allude to activity and diligent work. They
also have an enviable social organization
and know what their functions are. In this
quality, they symbolize an ordering - not
in a patriarchal way but in a matriarchal
way of organization, more similar to the
order inherent to nature.
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