The symbolism of the Clown

Clowns are ‘archetypes’ (puffins being called the ‘clowns’ of the sea). An archetype is a pattern of behaviour or event that occurs again and again, in different people over time.

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VIDEOS
Video footage of puffins taken on
Farne Islands, Northumbria by Michel Edelenbosch contact avianprodukties@gmail.com also https://www.youtube.com/c/MichelEdelenbosch/videos

PAINTINGS
John William Waterhouse - The Lady of Shalott [Tate Gallery]
Ernest Procter - Frederick Delius [NPG 3861]
Picasso – Pierrot and Columbine
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Pierrot blanc
Rosemary Rock-Evans – The Clown as Juggler
Various Vanity Fair covers by Rita Senger and Joseph Leyendecker
Crying clown cannot be attributed as found on Pin It
Maxfield Parrish – The Lantern Bearers 1908
H James Hoff - Tired Clown
McBlue – Sad Clown [on Deviant Art]

MUSIC
Ros Walker is an artist and musician, and her profile is also on the allaboutheaven.org youtube page
Her website is https://www.roswalker.com/
And she can also be found @wayward_pottery for Instagram
For the music - https://www.facebook.com/rozwalkermusic
And https://soundcloud.com/ros-walker

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Puffins are called ‘the clowns of the sea’.
The video mentions a number of concepts and symbols, and more explanation on them can be found by following the links to our website. If you scroll down the page of explanation given for each link, you will find an alphabetic list [headed observations] of myths, paintings, poems and similar cases where the symbol of the clown and the other concepts and symbols have been used

Archetype - https://allaboutheaven.org/concepts/Archetype
Purification - https://allaboutheaven.org/concepts/purification/153/main
Tarot - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/tarot-the/143
Enneagram - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/he-Enneagram-The-Discernment-of-Spirits
Bobble hat - https://allaboutheaven.org/symbols/bobble-hat/153/main
Party hat with tassle - https://allaboutheaven.org/symbols/party-hat-with-tassle/123
Collar and ruff - https://allaboutheaven.org/symbols/collars-and-ruffs/123
Sacrifice - https://allaboutheaven.org/concepts/sacrifice/122
Grief - https://allaboutheaven.org/overload/grief/124/main
Rejection - https://allaboutheaven.org/overload/rejection/124/main
Unrequited love - https://allaboutheaven.org/overload/unrequited-love/104
James Joyce - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/joyce-james/124/main
James Thurber - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/thurber-james/124/main
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/delius/124/main
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/nietzsche-friedrich-wilhelm/124/main
Questioning and doubting all existing beliefs - https://allaboutheaven.org/commonsteps/questioning-and-doubting-all-existing-beliefs/120
Alfred Lord Tennyson - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/alfred-lord-tennyson/124/main
Adversity - https://allaboutheaven.org/concepts/adversity/124/main
Alchemy - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/alchemy/124/main