Download or read book Byblos Symbolic Architecture written by Diego Kurilo and published by Sophia Lux. This book was released on with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As all traditional doctrines and philosophies teach, the Universe is a symbolic fact. An Arabic proverb says that everything can be reduced to symbols, except Tufân the breath of fire. It is said that there is, in the first cause, an older source of symbols close to fire and the water of life, a concept close to the Koranic symbolism of water in the Arab world. The symbolic thought of the first Indo-European peoples saw in many deities the manifestation of primal fires and the wellspring of the symbolic, a certain union where the opposites stop showing through the theater of the demonstrations to lose themselves in unity. Man needs to understand what symbolism is, because without this understanding he cannot delve inside and look at yourself, being a central symbol of the earthly, in a universe without scale and time. It is our duty to discover our symbolic interiority. The purpose of this book is to bring to the reader different interpretations of logos, deities and religions whose symbolic expression had its genesis in architecture. Many of the Indo-European deities in their essence were portrayed as abstract forms and numbers, in a quest to learn mathematics and geometries associated with the universal. An example of this is the cult of Apollo who was worshiped at Delphi as a cube, or the God Min in Egypt, one of the oldest deities in the world, who represented for that ideology not only numbers, but also the first bricklayer's rule, center of religions strongly rooted in the architectonic. On his arm was represented the Egyptian elbow, ruler or modulor on which the space to be made sacred was organized. The Universe for these peoples personified a fundamental hill, surrounded by a mass of salty water crowned by a symbol in the shape of a potter's wheel, and at the top of which was a philosopher's cube, the most sacred space or house of Horus. For many world cultures such as the Hindu or the Cherokeé in North America, the world was supported by a turtle whose shell It had drawings of hexagonal sides, like many of the trees of life in the Indo-European world, such as the "Fu-sang" tree in China. This book covers a series of events and mythologies associated with the art of construction, from the universal symbolism of the cardinal points and the circle of the earth, to the temple of Jerusalem and its creator King Solomon, passing through numerical symbolism, symbolism Koranic of the water, that of the mosque, the dome and the cathedral, all these symbols endowed with their primordial and infinite heritage.