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Ants | 1795 ants | watercolor | 50x70 cm
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Ants are animals attached to the earth (the Earth as a symbol of the archetype of the Great Mother), and are, therefore, expressions of a dimension of the feminine. Judging by their meaning in the Psyche myth, they represent the male of the female (the male of the Great Mother), probably because of their laborious and methodical activity. In the myth, they participate in the first task attributed to Psyche by Aphrodite, helping her to categorize the numerous grains mixed and accumulated on a hill.
 
By this, they symbolize a function of discernment, an aspect of thinking (classifying, separating and distributing into categories, separating the chaff from wheat), something important in the course of a woman's psychological development.
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Moreover, because of their patient activity, they allude to activity and diligent work. They also have an enviable social organization and know what their functions are. In this quality, they symbolize an ordering - not in a patriarchal way but in a matriarchal way of organization, more similar to the order inherent to nature.
   
 
 
 
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