Symbols of Love
Everybody loves a little romance. Think Cupid. Think Valentines. Think the heart.
Throughout the ages, poets have used the heart as a symbol of love and romance.
love is leslie
leslie is love
she must be an angel
and fell from above
my heart she has taken
so solemnly slow
and yet still today
my love will still grow
my heart beats with LOVE
she,ll hopefully know
when I am around
our LOVE will still grow
her eyes are so sweet
her face will now glow
I'll always LOVE Leslie
My LOVE will still grow
Her tender kiss
I will always LOVE
For she is an angel
who fell from above
I'll always cherish her
she'll always know
my LOVE will not stop
but it will always GO!
Danny L. Audy , Swan River
It's not difficult to figure out the connection between the heart and love or the heart and Valentine's Day.
But how did this stylized heart shape become the icon for love, the human soul and Valentine's Day?
The heart symbol, as we know it today, was popularized by the Victorian era over a hundred years ago. They loved the romantic heart shape and embellished it in many ways; but they didn't invent it. Where did it come from?
Some scholars speculate that the heart symbol as we use it to signify romance or love came from early attempts by people to draw an organ they'd never seen.
The Catholic church claims that their symbol of the heart (Sacred Heart) began when Saint Margaret Marie Alacoque had a vision in the late 17th century. She claims she saw a heart shape surrounded by a crown of thorns.
But the most intriguing explanations of the heart's origin, is linked to erotic love and lies within the ruins of a classical city in North Africa. In the 7th century BC, in the city-state of Cyrene, there was a valuable plant called Silphium. The commercial trade of this now extinct species of fennel made Cyrene one of the richest cities in Africa until the founding of Alexandria. We are only now coming to understand the why Silphium plant was so highly valued that it was harvested to extinction.
This coin of ancient Cyrene shows a seed pod of the Silphium plant.
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