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Symbols and motifs
The signs that carry the framework — the Raëlian symbol of infinity, the star of David, the swastika, the menorah, the tree and the wheel.
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- Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew אֲרוֹן הַבְּרִית, aron ha-brit, a gold-plated acacia chest) is the portable container built at Sinai to Yahweh's…
- Doubled Signature The Doubled Signature is the hermeneutic-interpretive principle, drawn from Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's Hamlet's Mill (1969) and…
- Dragons Dragons are a category of large reptilian or serpentine creatures that the Wheel of Heaven framework identifies as deliberately created biological…
- Forerunners Forerunners are, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the functional class of prophets and visionaries whose missions prepare the way for a more central…
- John Anthony West John Anthony West (1932–2018) was an American writer who became the English-language champion of the 'symbolist' interpretation of ancient Egypt…
- Leviathan Leviathan — the Hebrew Bible's primordial sea-serpent. In the corpus, one of several names for the figure the Wheel of Heaven entry treats under…
- List of mythemes and mythological motifs A reference catalogue of the principal cross-cultural mythological motifs the Wheel of Heaven framework reads as preserving, in mythologised form,…
- Menorah The Menorah is the seven-branched golden lampstand specified in the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 25:31–40) as a principal furnishing of the Tabernacle and…
- Mytheme Mytheme is, in its strict technical sense, the principal analytical unit of Claude Lévi-Strauss's structural-anthropological method for the study of…
- Number of Man The Number of Man is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the value 666 (Greek χξϛ) of Revelation 13:18 — read, following Vorilhon's Let Us Welcome the…
- Raëlian Symbol of Infinity The Raëlian Symbol of Infinity is the principal emblem of the Raëlian movement and the Wheel of Heaven framework, presented to Raël by Yahweh at the…
- Sacred Geometry Sacred Geometry is the body of geometric forms, ratios, and proportions — the golden ratio, the Platonic solids, the vesica piscis, the Flower of…
- Sampo The Sampo is the central magical artifact of the Finnish Kalevala — a mill or machine, capped by a 'many-colored lid,' forged by the smith Ilmarinen,…
- Serpent The Serpent (Hebrew: נָחָשׁ, naḥash) is the figure in Genesis 3 who urges the first humans to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and…
- Star of David The Star of David (Hebrew מָגֵן דָּוִד, Magen David, 'Shield of David') is a six-pointed star formed by two interlocked equilateral triangles — a…
- Swastika The swastika is one of the oldest religious symbols, with archaeological evidence extending back at least 12,000 years to Paleolithic Europe. It is a…
- Tannin Tannin (תַּנִּין) — the Hebrew Bible's word for the serpent-dragon-monster class, named in Genesis 1:21. The corpus treats it under Dragons.
- Tauroctony The tauroctony (Greek tauroktonos, 'bull-slayer') is the central cult image of Roman Mithraism: the god Mithras plunging a dagger into a bull,…
- Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Hebrew עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, etz ha-daat tov va-ra) is one of the two named trees at the centre of the…
Articles 2
- The Shape of Humanity In a single sentence of the second Raëlian message, Yahweh asks Raël to consider «each human to be like a cell of the great being in gestation, that…
- The Mill That Grinds the Ages In 1969 two historians of science — Giorgio de Santillana of MIT and Hertha von Dechend of Frankfurt — published an 'essay' arguing that the world's…