So Leviathan is represented as like God's pet basically, as kind of God's play thing that he created in the waters to kind of play.

But in the same thing in the book of Job, then the Leviathan is represented as an expression of God's power.

You know, it's like, can you control the Leviathan? You, human, like, do you have enough power to master this giant monster?

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The Leviathan is a strange creature in the Bible and in the tradition.

And so I thought that it would be a great idea to kind of look at the Levitean, to think a bit about the sea serpent, the dragon, the relationship to the devil, how all of these associations came to be, what they can mean.

And also, it can help us understand how symbolism can be polyvalent.

That is, that symbolism can have multiple meanings at the same time.

And that understanding those multiple meanings can also help us understand how symbolism works.

And then also help us understand the specific meanings that are attributed to

each symbol. And the Leviathan, that great sea dragon, sea serpent, seems like a great place

to look at that. So before we start, I just want to say two things that are important. One is that

as many of you know, the symbolicmbolic World Summit is coming very fast.

At the end of February, the tickets are nearly sold out.

And just in this last moment, we finally announced who it is that our secret guest is going

to be at the Symbolic World Summit.

And as many of you guessed, it is in fact going to be Jordan Peterson, who is going to come and spend those three days with us, with his wife Tammy as well. I'm definitely looking forward to having him and Father Stephen DeYoung and Martin Shaw and Neil DeGrade and all these symbolic world people with Richard Roland. It's going to be absolutely crazy. I think it's going to feel like it's

my birthday. That's pretty much how I'm going to feel during that entire weekend. And since the

tickets are almost really sold out, and I know that it's difficult for a lot of people to come,

we have decided to offer online tickets. We're going to try to stream it, but we're not going

to guarantee that we'll stream it, but we will at least deliver all the lectures on the same day.

A raw version of all the lectures, so you can follow along, you can go on the symbolic world website, you can discuss with other people about what is going on at the sub-it while it's happening.

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