While music and musical instruments are major motifs of his masterwork, which has long been on display in Madrid, these are often interpreted as symbols of pleasure, lust or the notoriously naughty habits of travelling minstrels.
In one of the most mysterious passages in Revelation, Christ opens the seals of a book held by God, and unleashes, each on a steed of a different color, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, generally interpreted as symbols of war, pestilence, famine, and death.
The artifacts have features that the researchers interpret as symbols indicating words.
In the strip's main motif, Ignatz Mouse would pelt Krazy with bricks, which the naïve, androgynous Kat would interpret as symbols of love.
Yellow was interpreted as a symbol of harvest and the fruits of work, both in agriculture and otherwise.
For Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars alike, this Eurovision prize could only be interpreted as a symbol of European solidarity with a country that has lost control of swaths of territory in the face of Russian aggression.
He came to be interpreted as a symbol of suffering for one's ideals, and he therefore was considered acceptable both to conservative Muslims and to progressive social critics.
Splinters from the soaring television antenna that marked the highest point in New York City -- 1,732 feet into the sky -- sit on their sides, right next to the punctured, debris-choked remains of Fritz Koenig's great spherical bronze sculpture, the former centerpiece to the trade center's ground-level plaza, interpreted as a symbol of world peace through trade.
Mr. Tambourine Man has also been interpreted as a symbol for Jesus Christ and for the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
In the play Sardanapalus by Byron, a character named Myrrha appeared, whom critics interpreted as a symbol of Byron's dream of romantic love.
