Does anybody know what the crown/ thorns on the statue of liberty symbolizes?

Answer 1

The monument to which you refer is more correctly called "Liberty Enlightening the World", and was a gift from France. Her seven-spiked crowned is representative of liberty shining out to the seven continents and seven seas. In addition, a chain representing tyranny lays broken at her feet. On the interior wall of the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus,” is inscribed on a bronze plaque. The poem reads:

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!




Though "Eye of Sauron" might be right, since Little Eiffel did build the frame!

Answer 2

In the Statue of Liberty, the 25 windows in the crown symbolize the 25 gemstones found on earth and the seven rays of the Statue's crown represent the seven seas / continents of the world.

As for WHY she is wearing a crown (instead of another type of hat), I am not sure. I doubt it's any sort of Christ reference. It's more likely to be a sign of authority over "liberty", as in the Statue is "Queen Liberty".

Answer 3

The crown and the thorns symbolize the seven seas and continents.

Answer 4

I hope it helps, sweety

The corona radiata, the "radiant crown" known best on the Statue of Liberty, and perhaps worn by the Helios that was the Colossus of Rhodes, was worn by pagan Roman emperors, part of the cult of Sol Invictus. It was referred to as "the chaplet studded with sunbeams” by Lucian, about 180 AD (in Alexander the false prophet).

Answer 5

It's a crown, and I knew at one time what the spikes stood for but now I forget. I think there are 7 spikes though.

Answer 6

In Masonic imagery it symbolises the Isis star

Answer 7

Sounds like a biblicalreference to persecution to me, but that is justa guess.

Answer 8

Eiffel's mother's hat

Answer 9

~The seven seas, the seven continents, the seven deadly sins and the seven dwarfs.

Answer 10

lemon drops?