Patterns & Metaphors
Artifacts
Template:
Man-made objects, along with the human body and its parts, constitute the bulk of symbols. (This sub-class of symbolic artifacts, for convenience, can exclude those feats of construction and engineering represented by buildings and their architectural elements, bridges, monuments, sculpture, roads, walls, gardens, enclosures, towns and cities). Artifacts, human-sized and smaller, very many hand-held, are represented by such things as armour and weapons, food-associated implements and devices, home furnishings and amenities, clothing, jewellery and precious things, games, craftsmen's tools, musical instruments and many others. There is also a class of objects associated with animal husbandry and domestication, and there is a class of objects that are animal artifacts such as spider webs, beehives, bird nests and beaver dams.
Metaphor:
An unusual class of symbols or of symbolic imagery is beings made by beings. To this class belong Galatea, Pinocchio, Dr Frankenstein's monster, the Kabbalists' golem, the alchemists' homunculus, the cyberneticists' robot, the biologists' clone, and according to some, man himself, the symbol of the macrocosm, as symbolized by Leonardo in the image of the limb-outspread man who measures the universe.<
