Blood

6 books featuring this symbol

Blood denotes kinship, vitality, and the life-price of covenant. In sacrifice and oath-taking it seals bonds, mediating between mortality and divine claim.

Oedipus Rex cover

Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

429-425 BCE

Greek

Popol Vuh cover

Popol Vuh

Anonymous

1554-1703 CE

Mesoamerican, Mayan

Antigone cover

Antigone

Sophocles

441 BCE

Greek

Medea cover

Medea

Euripides

431 BCE

Greek

Y Gododdin cover

Y Gododdin

Aneirin

600-1200 CE

Celtic, Welsh

Erotika Pathemata cover

Erotika Pathemata

Parthenius of Nicaea

100-1 BCE

Greek