Black doves stand for pestilence, racism, and facism. Thats why you never see them anymore, except in old WWII movies. Hope this helps : )
2006-09-18 12:09:31
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answered by Anonymous
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I would say only the white doves, because white means pure, and in Christianity, the white dove is a symbol of peace.
2006-09-18 22:09:09
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answered by Norah 6
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I would suggest that the dove represents the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit. A dove descended over Jesus of Nazareth as John the Baptist baptized him.
Noah sent out a dove from the ark and it, at one point, returned with an olive branch. And olive branch has been suggested to represent peace but I would suggest it represents hope.
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The Christian’s Holy Ghost descended as a dove and alighted on Christ’s head at his baptism (Luke 3:22). The Holy Ghost in the shape of a bird – a dove or a pigeon – is a very ancient pagan tradition. In India, a dove was uniformly the emblem of the Holy Spirit or Spirit of God. A dove stood for a third member of the Trinity, and was the regenerator or regeneratory power. Compare this with Titus (3:5): regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. A person being baptized under the Brahminical theocracy was said to be regenerated and born again, or, they were born into the spirit, or the spirit into them—the dove into or upon them.
In Rome a dove or pigeon was a legendary spirit, the accompaniment of Venus, the emblem of female procreative energy. It is therefore appropriately shown as descending at baptism in the character of the third member of the Trinity. The dove also fills the Grecian oracles with their spirit and power. A dove was, in several ancient religions, the Spirit of God (Holy Ghost) moving on the face of the waters at creation (Gen. 1:2), though a pigeon was often substituted. The dove and the pigeon were used interchangeably.
In the ancient Syrian temple of Hierapolis, Semiramis is shown with a dove on her head, the prototype of the dove on the head of the Christian messiah at baptism. At the feast of Whitsuntide, the descent of the Holy Ghost was symbolised in London by a pigeon being let fly out of a hole in the midst of the roof of the great aisle of St Paul’s Cathedral. It is more than likely that this continues an ancient tradition. On solemn occasions when the Holy Ghost was expected or invited to descend, it was more than likely that originally no one in the congregation noticed that it did. The custom therefore arose of liberating pigeons or doves at the appropriate moment.
Naturally, these doves would have been actually ascending, having realised that they were no longer constrained, but that would not have bothered the faithful who eventually came to understand the symbolism. In any case, the doves would most likely have been tame ones bred for the purpose and possibly made no great effort to escape, like the pigeons in crowded city plazas. So, it is quite possible that sometimes one of the tame birds did alight on the priest – perhaps they were trained to do just that. The pictures of priests or gods with a dove on their head might be depictions of actual rituals.
2006-09-18 19:13:15
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answered by WindWalker10 5
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the white ones stand for peace, love, motherhood.
2006-09-18 19:10:19
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answered by darlin12009 5
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