The Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei photo: Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
Exception to pause - unbelievable symbol given the slant of this blog. This from Wikipedia:
The National Emblem of Iran (Persian: نشان رسمی, romanized: Nešâne Rasmiye, lit. 'Formal Emblem') since the Iranian Revolution features four curves and a sword, surmounted by a shadda. The emblem was designed by Hamid Nadimi, and was officially approved by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the first supreme leader of Iran, on 9 May 1980.The four curves, surmounted by the shadda, are a stylized representation of the word Allah. The five parts of the emblem also symbolize the Principles of the Religion. The shape of the emblem is chosen to resemble a tulip, in memory of the people who died for Iran: it is an ancient belief in Iran, dating back to mythology, that if a young soldier dies patriotically, a red tulip will grow on his grave.
Pause? At this point or points: ". . .our interest [in the collective unconscious] regards its mundane and boring form where non-rational human ideas and behaviors are played out within everyday culture - blindly accepted without question - "something just right about it" - that may have, as their obfuscated basis, this numen factor described by both Jung and Otto." So, prize found, first round. Amazing force. See following entry.
Related:
Leonard Shlain "Left, Right and Center"
Not just me, from The Guardian, Monday, 2013 November 18
Kissing the Shroud/Flag [likely includes baby blankets and thumb sucking]
