449 - Decapitation Symbolism: The Glory of Losing Your Head
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In our latest Q&A, someone asked me a question about decapitation |
| 0:03.2 | and the symbolism of decapitation. |
| 0:05.1 | And it made me go back into my memory to some very old conversations |
| 0:08.8 | that I had with my brother, Monsieur Pajot, a long time ago, |
| 0:11.9 | where we looked into and were interpreting the text about Joseph |
| 0:16.1 | in the book of Genesis, where he interprets the dreams of these two prisoners. |
| 0:21.2 | It's a very strange text with some very powerful and subtle symbolism in it, and it is definitely |
| 0:26.6 | related to the symbolism of decapitation. |
| 0:29.1 | And so I want to start with that text. |
| 0:31.1 | We're going to look into it. |
| 0:32.1 | We're going to read it and see how relevant and how it shows beautiful, subtle, biblical symbolism. And then we're going |
| 0:38.7 | to show you how this symbolism carries through appears in other places in Scripture, and |
| 0:44.1 | then ultimately, as often gets resolved in Christ. And in the end, we're also going to see |
| 0:48.5 | one of the strangest saint stories you've ever heard, which is the story of Saint Denis, of |
| 0:53.6 | Paris, who carried his own head while he was preaching. And so here we go. |
| 0:59.0 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. |
| 1:13.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:18.6 | Hello everyone, there is about only one week left until the Symbolic World Summit. I am definitely getting super excited about this to see all my friends, to see all the people that I admire. Father Drusiah is going to be there, Mary Harrington, of course, Deacon Serafim, Heather Paulington. We're also going to have Kel Zeldin, Annie Crawford. Deacon Nicholas Kotar is going to do some wonderful things for us. I mean, it's just going to be amazing and there will be all these people that aren't on the roster, but that you've seen on the channel that you'll be exciting to see. And we're even going to have this strange, did you know, if you're my age, you remember the Hanson brothers. They had that famous song in the 90s. Well, two of them are going to be coming and even |
| 2:01.9 | playing music for us. And so this is going to be such a fun time. And because so many people |
| 2:06.2 | have asked us, we decided again to do an online version. So if you cannot come to the summit, |
| 2:11.8 | go to the symbolicworld.com or symbolicworldsummit.com and you will be able to find online |
| 2:17.1 | tickets. It's $100 and you'll be |
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