Tower
It is a vertical structure, linking HEAVEN
and EARTH; in this way akin to a LADDER
in its symbolic form. It can be a stronghold, and may be a prison; the
tower may signify ascent, and when it contains a VIRGIN
or a PRINCESS, might represent a
walled garden, as in FAIRY TALES such
as "Rapunzel" and science fiction such as Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's
Daughter." In Christianity, the Tower of Babel was built in an
attempt to link HEAVEN and EARTH.
(Genesis 11:1-9).
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