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A Aaron’s rod – жезл Аарона; символ власти; страсть к обогащению In the culture of the Israelites, the rod would be a natural symbol of authority, as the tool used by the shepherd to correct and guide his flock. The rods of both Moses and Aaron, the older brother of Moses and a prophet of God, were endowed with miraculous power during the Plagues of Egypt. In Exodus 7 God sends Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, instructing Aaron that when Pharaoh demands to see a miracle, he is to “cast down his rod” and it will become a serpent. When he does so, Pharaoh’s sorcerers counter by similarly casting down their own rods, which also become serpents, but Aaron’s rod/serpent swallows them all. Walt Whitman (1819–1892), an American poet, essayist and journalist, indicates the type of reference in modern times: “the magician’s serpent in the fable ate up all the other serpents, and money-making is our magician’s serpent, remaining sole master of the field.” D.H. Lawrence (1885– 1930), an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter entitled a novel, Aaron’s Rod, in 1922. Also, the name given to various flowering plants. Abelard and Heloise – Абеляр и Элоиза; символ бессмертной трагической любви Pierre Abelard (1079–1142) was a brilliant French philosopher and scholastic theologian, and a very popular lecturer at Notre-Dame. He espoused Aristotelian logic over Platonic theory. But his popular fame rests in his tragic love affair with Heloise. They were secretly married, over 6