{"id":578,"date":"2022-02-22T01:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=578"},"modified":"2022-02-25T00:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:49:37","slug":"chalice-or-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/chalice-or-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalice or Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/chalice-cup-Pagan-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3183\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chalice, often known as the Cup, is a pagan ritual implement. It symbolizes the subconscious, psychic ability, intuition, emotions, and gestation, and is considered a feminine element. It is also linked to fertility and is thought to symbolise the Goddess&#8217; womb or the feminine reproductive organs. The Chalice, as a symbol of female energy in the universe, is the polar opposite of the Athame, which represents male energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chalice has been utilized as a ceremonial item in Christianity as well, although in this case it represents the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, and the libation it holds represents Jesus&#8217; blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chalice, often known as the Cup, is a pagan ritual implement. It symbolizes the subconscious, psychic ability, intuition, emotions, and gestation, and is considered a feminine element. It is also linked to fertility and is thought to symbolise the Goddess&#8217; womb or the feminine reproductive organs. The Chalice, as a symbol of female energy &#8230; <a title=\"Chalice or Cup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/chalice-or-cup\/\" aria-label=\"More on Chalice or Cup\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}