Queen
In the history of symbols the importance of the queen is not necessarily
comparable to that of the KING: she appears
rather as a complementary term in dualities, rarely standing alone, at
least in secular contexts... in FAIRY TALES
and legends, on the other hand, we often find female royalty from the supernatural
realm, for example the queen of the fairies, or, negatively valued, the
queen of the witches. These figures suggest that in older times, at least
in nonsecular contexts, women were allowed more influence than in the Judeo-Christian
era... in the context of psychology, great queens, when they appear in
dreams, for example, appear to symbolize the great feminine principle or
simply the MOTHER (Biederman, 276).
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