What is the symbolic meaning of snow?
2006-12-18 11:39:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Purity, peace and coldness.
2006-12-18 11:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by snowlady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hope this is useful b/c this is what i found when i googled it...
...."Because of its whiteness and freshness, snow is a symbol of purity. Melted snow was considered more cleansing than ordinary water (Job 9:30-31). The forgiveness of sins left the repentant as "white" or pure as snow (Ps 51:7; Is 1:18). The life of the Virgin Mary was so exemplary that an apocryphal account of her death records that the apostles, seeing her soul leave her body, could not help but notice that it was whiter than snow (Apocrypha of the New Testament - The Passing of the Blessed Mary - Early Church Fathers, Ante-Nicene v. 8). Another apocryphal work surmises that at the end of time, the Lord will send four great winds to "sweep sin from off the earth," leaving it as flat as paper and as white as snow - pure enough to be the Lord's Virgin Bride (Apocrypha of the New Testament, Revelation of John - Ante-Nicene Early Church Fathers v. 8). Madame Swetchine taught we should "Let our lives be as pure as snow fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain." ....."
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2006-12-18 19:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by lucky me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the novel "Native Son", Richard Wright portrays snow symbollically to suggest the enveloping affects of white society on the black community. Anything from that, it's just precipitation.
2006-12-18 19:43:14 · answer #3 · answered by Nathan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmmm!!!!! I think theres was a snow because of the precipatation from the cloud the freezes due to the lower pressure!!!....snow??? snow is a gas in the clouds which freezes due too very cold... from the sea ocean water liquids evaporate to the clouds then precipitate and due to lower pressure..then clouds are produces......
2006-12-19 20:42:48 · answer #4 · answered by Simple c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mm i'm gonna take a guess and say its the symbol of winter or coldness haha i wish it would snow over here!
2006-12-18 19:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by one&only<3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea, I have never seen snow in my life
2006-12-18 19:45:46 · answer #6 · answered by Evieve 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends what context its being used in.
It could be purity, desolation, or the more obvious, cold.
2006-12-18 19:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by lovely 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I don't think snow has a "symbolic" meaning.
2006-12-18 19:40:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It has been used to signify cocaine
2006-12-18 19:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by Jeep Driver 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋