35-550: [REDACTED] Look up syzygy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. [REDACTED] Wikisource has original text related to this article: Syzygy Syzygy / ˈ s ɪ z ɪ dʒ i / (from Greek Συζυγία 'conjunction', 'yoked together') may refer to: Science [ edit ] Syzygy (astronomy) , a collinear configuration of three celestial bodies Syzygy (mathematics) , linear relation between generators of
70-543: A Robot character from the video game Unreal Tournament 2003 Syzygy , a game for the Dragon 32 home computer, published by Microdeal Syzygy, a linking word game by Lewis Carroll, published in The Lady magazine Syzygy, a Great Old One in the game Eldritch Horror (board game) , introduced in the expansion Strange Remnants Syzygy Co., an arcade game engineering company co-founded by Nolan Bushnell SYZYGY,
105-539: A charting single in 1990 titled "Blue Flower" from their album She Hangs Brightly . The folk/pop/narrative band The Gray Havens released an album in 2021 titled “Blue Flower,” inspired by C. S. Lewis ’s Surprised By Joy . In his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire , American author George R. R. Martin uses the blue flower as a reoccurring symbol to represent young women of the noble House Stark , often with hints to an illicit love affair. In one instance, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen uses blue winter roses to crown
140-410: A collinear configuration of three celestial bodies Syzygy (mathematics) , linear relation between generators of a module Syzygy, in biology, the pairing of chromosomes during meiosis Syzygy endgame tablebases , used by chess engines Philosophy [ edit ] Syzygy, a concept in the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov denoting "close union" Syzygy, a term used by Carl Jung to mean
175-477: A module Syzygy, in biology, the pairing of chromosomes during meiosis Syzygy endgame tablebases , used by chess engines Philosophy [ edit ] Syzygy, a concept in the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov denoting "close union" Syzygy, a term used by Carl Jung to mean a union of opposites, e.g. anima and animus Syzygy, female–male pairings of the emanations known as Aeon (Gnosticism) Literature [ edit ] Epirrhematic syzygy:
210-569: A symbol of desire and hope, and the object of the narrator's search. This volume also includes Van Dyke's most famous story, " The Other Wise Man ". Walter Benjamin used the image of the blue flower several times in his writing. For example, the opening sentence of his essay Dream Kitsch : "No one really dreams any longer of the Blue Flower. Whoever awakes as Heinrich von Ofterdingen today must have overslept." Also in his Work of Art essay: "The equipment-free aspect of reality has here become
245-612: A system of symmetrically corresponding verse forms in Greek Old Comedy "It Wasn't Syzygy", a short story by Theodore Sturgeon Syzygy , a novel by Michael G. Coney Syzygy (novel) , a novel by Frederik Pohl Syzygy (poetry) , the combination of two metrical feet into a single unit Syzygy Darklock , a fictional character in the comic book series Dreadstar Syzygy Publishing, an American comics publisher founded by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood. Film, television, and games [ edit ] Atari, Inc. ,
280-668: A track by Laurel Halo on the 2017 album Dust “Syzygy”, a track by Jazzuelle (ft. Simeon) from the 2020 Album Rogue See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Syzygy" on Misplaced Pages. Caledonian Antisyzygy , a term referring to the Scottish psyche and literature Szyzyg, the YouTube username of Scott Manley [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of syzygy at Wiktionary All pages with titles beginning with Syzygy All pages with titles containing Syzygy Topics referred to by
315-557: A track by Laurel Halo on the 2017 album Dust “Syzygy”, a track by Jazzuelle (ft. Simeon) from the 2020 Album Rogue See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Syzygy" on Misplaced Pages. Caledonian Antisyzygy , a term referring to the Scottish psyche and literature Szyzyg, the YouTube username of Scott Manley [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of syzygy at Wiktionary All pages with titles beginning with Syzygy All pages with titles containing Syzygy Topics referred to by
350-454: A track from the 1987 album Michael Brecker "Syzygy", a track by Gene Loves Jezebel on the 1990 album Kiss of Life "Syzygy, Part I", "Syzygy, Part II", and "Syzygy, Part III", tracks from the 2004 album Suns of the Tundra "Syzygy", a track by Los Angeles Guitar Quartet on the 2012 LAGQ: Latin album "Syzygy", a track by Mickey Factz on the 2015 mixtape "Y3" "Syzygy",
385-401: A track from the 1987 album Michael Brecker "Syzygy", a track by Gene Loves Jezebel on the 1990 album Kiss of Life "Syzygy, Part I", "Syzygy, Part II", and "Syzygy, Part III", tracks from the 2004 album Suns of the Tundra "Syzygy", a track by Los Angeles Guitar Quartet on the 2012 LAGQ: Latin album "Syzygy", a track by Mickey Factz on the 2015 mixtape "Y3" "Syzygy",
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#1732793977436420-430: A union of opposites, e.g. anima and animus Syzygy, female–male pairings of the emanations known as Aeon (Gnosticism) Literature [ edit ] Epirrhematic syzygy: a system of symmetrically corresponding verse forms in Greek Old Comedy "It Wasn't Syzygy", a short story by Theodore Sturgeon Syzygy , a novel by Michael G. Coney Syzygy (novel) , a novel by Frederik Pohl Syzygy (poetry) ,
455-415: Is derived from a plant with blue flower. Tennessee Williams used images of blue roses in his play The Glass Menagerie to symbolize the frailty and uniqueness of Laura, a central character that reflects the life of Williams' sister, who underwent a lobotomy. In the play, Laura is nicknamed "Blue Roses" after another character misheard her say "pleurosis". The alternative rock band Mazzy Star released
490-491: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages syzygy [REDACTED] Look up syzygy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. [REDACTED] Wikisource has original text related to this article: Syzygy Syzygy / ˈ s ɪ z ɪ dʒ i / (from Greek Συζυγία 'conjunction', 'yoked together') may refer to: Science [ edit ] Syzygy (astronomy) ,
525-522: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Blaue Blume A blue flower ( German : Blaue Blume ) was a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism movement, and remains an enduring motif in Western art today. It stands for desire , love , and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. It symbolizes hope and
560-506: Is featured in the 2005 film Batman Begins . In it, a fear-intensifying hallucinogenic drug is manufactured from blue flowers. The drug is used by Ra's al Ghul and Dr. Jonathan Crane (the Scarecrow ), who plan to terrorize Gotham City by weaponizing the drug into a concentrated powder form and release it into the city's water supply. Blue flower is again used as the source of a fictitious mind-altering drug, here called Substance D, in
595-405: Is meant to symbolize the deep and sacred longings of a poet's soul. Romantic poetry invariably deals with longing; not a definite, formulated desire for some obtainable object, but a dim, mysterious aspiration, a trembling unrest, a vague sense of kinship with the infinite, and a consequent dissatisfaction with every form of happiness which the world has to offer." Thomas Carlyle offered this, that
630-419: The 2006 adaptation of Philip K. Dick 's novel A Scanner Darkly . A display of blue Baptisia australis flowers is used as a symbol of private support for an annual night of extrajudicial killings that serves as the central plot device of 2013 motion picture The Purge . James and Ruth Bauer, husband and wife collaborative team, wrote an unconventional music theatre piece entitled The Blue Flower at
665-620: The Nazi Party . A 2012 episode of the BBC television series New Tricks , entitled "Blue Flower", concerns the murder of an East German refugee who had been involved in the Blue Flower organisation. Blue flower is used in the 2016 film Zootopia . In it, the flowers are called "night howlers" and are the source of a drug that causes mammals to become savage and attack anyone who comes near. The Gray Havens wrote an album titled "Blue Flower", reflecting this metaphor. The songs revolve around
700-626: The Blue Flower in his final film, Eyes Wide Shut . Sandor Szavost (Sky Dumont) is wearing one while dancing with Alice Harford (Nicole Kidman). In the prequel to David Lynch 's television series Twin Peaks , entitled Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me , two FBI agents are informed about their upcoming task through a woman named Lil. On her lapel is a tiny, artificial blue rose, clearly symbolic of something; but when Sam asks, Chet simply replies, "But I can't tell you about that." Blue flower
735-525: The Blue Flower." English writer Penelope Fitzgerald 's historical novel The Blue Flower is based on Novalis's early life. In John le Carré 's 1968 novel A Small Town in Germany , the character Bradfield says, "I used to think I was a Romantic, always looking for the blue flower" (Pan edition, p. 286 – chap. 17). Substance D, a fictitious drug in Philip K. Dick 's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly ,
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#1732793977436770-558: The Lady Lyanna Stark as the "Queen of Love and Beauty" at the Tournament of Harrenhal, passing over his own wife, Princess Elia of Dorne . Nowadays there is a French expression, fleur bleue , describing a sensitive dreamer and ingénue person. The color blue applied to a flower means a tenderness unavowed but also an emotion of purity, sincerity, gentleness, sensitivity and discretion. In 1960 Werner Helwig published
805-510: The beauty of things. German author Novalis introduced the symbol into the Romantic movement through his unfinished coming-of-age story , entitled Heinrich von Ofterdingen . After contemplating a meeting with a stranger, the young Heinrich von Ofterdingen dreams about a blue flower which calls to him and absorbs his attention. "This blue flower is the watchword and sacred symbol of the [Romantic] school," according to H.H. Boyesen . "It
840-503: The blue flower "being Poetry, the real object, passion and vocation of young Heinrich, which, through manifold adventures, exertions and sufferings, he is to seek and find." Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff wrote a poem called Die blaue Blume (The blue flower). Adelbert von Chamisso saw the core of Romanticism in the motif, and Goethe searched for the "Urpflanze" or "original plant" in Italy, which in some interpretations could refer to
875-475: The blue flower red!"). David Lynch uses the symbol of the blue flower in the 2010 short film Lady Blue Shanghai , a 16-minute, promotional short film for fashion designer Dior starring Marion Cotillard , among others. In the film a blue flower is hidden in a Dior handbag, at first feared and finally embraced by the female protagonist. It may be said that Lynch is associating the handbag with "divine" inspiration and creativity. Stanley Kubrick made use of
910-415: The blue flower. E. T. A. Hoffmann used the Blue Flower as a symbol for the poetry of Novalis and the "holy miracle of nature" in his short tale "Nachricht von den neuesten Schicksalen des Hundes Berganza" . In 1902, Charles Scribner's Sons published The Blue Flower , a collection of short stories by Henry Van Dyke , the first two of which, "The Blue Flower" and "The Source", refer to the blue flower as
945-571: The book The Blue Flower of the Wandervogel ( Die blaue Blume des Wandervogels ) a history of the youth movement . Within the movement, a number of folk songs used the motif. In the 1960s, the German Left reacted against Novalis's imaginary blaue blume , which had become a symbol of Romanticism and bourgeois high culture. The student's chant was "Schlagt die Germanistik tot, färbt die blaue Blume rot!" ("Strike Germanistics dead, color
980-475: The combination of two metrical feet into a single unit Syzygy Darklock , a fictional character in the comic book series Dreadstar Syzygy Publishing, an American comics publisher founded by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood. Film, television, and games [ edit ] Atari, Inc. , the successor to the Syzygy Co. "Syzygy" ( The X-Files ) , a 1996 episode of the science fiction series Syzygy,
1015-626: The expansion Strange Remnants Syzygy Co., an arcade game engineering company co-founded by Nolan Bushnell SYZYGY, the title of Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the Netflix series The OA Music [ edit ] Syzygy, an alternative electronica music duo featuring Dominic Glynn Syzygy, composition by Del Tredici Syzygys (band) , a Japanese band Albums [ edit ] Syzygy (EP) , 1998, by Lynch Mob Syzygy (LP) , 2013, by Lucrecia Dalt Syzygy (LP) , 2015, by Blaue Blume Songs [ edit ] "Syzygy",
1050-476: The height of artifice, and the vision of immediate reality the Blue Flower in the land of technology." C. S. Lewis , in his autobiographical book Surprised by Joy , references the "Blue Flower" when speaking of the feelings of longing that beauty elicited when he was a child of six. He associates it with the German word sehnsucht , and states that this intense longing for things transcendent made him "a votary of
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1155-432: The successor to the Syzygy Co. "Syzygy" ( The X-Files ) , a 1996 episode of the science fiction series Syzygy, a Robot character from the video game Unreal Tournament 2003 Syzygy , a game for the Dragon 32 home computer, published by Microdeal Syzygy, a linking word game by Lewis Carroll, published in The Lady magazine Syzygy, a Great Old One in the game Eldritch Horror (board game) , introduced in
1190-449: The title of Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the Netflix series The OA Music [ edit ] Syzygy, an alternative electronica music duo featuring Dominic Glynn Syzygy, composition by Del Tredici Syzygys (band) , a Japanese band Albums [ edit ] Syzygy (EP) , 1998, by Lynch Mob Syzygy (LP) , 2013, by Lucrecia Dalt Syzygy (LP) , 2015, by Blaue Blume Songs [ edit ] "Syzygy",
1225-413: The turn of the 21st century. Speaking through liberally fictionalized versions of artists Max Beckmann , Franz Marc , and Hannah Höch as well as pivotal female scientific figure Marie Curie , the piece works with the romantic significance of the blue flower as it meditates on the brutal political and cultural turmoil of World War I, the short lived Weimar Republic , and Adolf Hitler 's rise to power in
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