Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Wedding Ring – A Symbol of Love

The wedding ring, the most famous and instantly symbol of theof the true love and a joining of a man and a woman as husband and wife in the institution of marriage, has a long, wide spread and mysterious history. The history of this lover rings beginnings in the deserts of North Africa, where there is ancient Egyptiancivilization sprang up along the fertile flood plains of the river Nile.

This river was bringer of all fortune and life to the Pharaoh’s people and from plants growing on its’ banks were the first wedding rings fashioned. Sedges,
rushes and reeds, growing alongside the well-known papyrus were twisted and
braided into rings for fingers and larger bracelets for wrists.

Long time ago,a ring is of course a circle shape and this was the symbol of eternity for the
Egyptians as well as many other ancient cultures. This ancient had no beginning and also they had no end, it's like time,keep on moving. The hole in the center of the ring is not just space either; it is important in its own right as the symbol of the gateway, or door; leading to things and events both known and unknown.

To see how the ring and the gift of a ring began to be associated with love, in the hope that this most worthy of emotions could take on the characteristics of the circle and capture eternity.

A wedding ring usually wore on the third finger of the left hand, because
of a belief that the vein of that finger directly traveled from the heart.Is is a symbolic for a true love . The Latin call it as ‘the vein of love’.


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