Ivy Like all evergreens, the ivy is immortality and eternal life; it is also revelry; clinging depen
Ivy Like all evergreens, the ivy is immortality and eternal life; it is also revelry; clinging dependence; attachment; constant affection; friendship. Christian: Everlasting life; death and immortality; fidelity. Egyptian: ‘The plant of Osiris’, immortality. Greek: Sacred to Dionysos who is crowned with ivy and whose cup is an 'ivy cup’; his thyrsus is encircled with ivy and one of his emblems is a post sprouting ivy leaves. Semetic: Sacred to the Phrygian Attis; immortality. The ivy-leaf is phallic, depicting the male trinity. [Source: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper] -- source link
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