To the left a Lapp marriage is being celebrated with fire.
"The motive they wish to indicate is this: the fire struck out of flint and again enclosed within it reveals symbolically that it contains the bond or strength of indestructible love. For, as the flint holds inside itself fire, which flashes out when the flint is struck, so in either sex there is a life concealed, which at length, as the result of their reciprocal tie, is brought into the open to become a living child" (Magnus 1996, I:204).
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