The Seba library treats Trumpet in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Edinger, Edward F., Jung, Carl Gustav, Frank S. Thielman).
Death Blowing the Worm Trumpet (J. Meydenbach, Doren Daniz, c. 1492. Mainz. Reprinted in Hind, An Introduction to a History of Woodcut.)
Edinger presents an alchemical woodcut of Death sounding the Worm Trumpet as an iconic image of the putrefactio stage, directly linking the trumpet to psychic mortification and dissolution.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985thesis
On that day We will let them come in tumultuous throngs. The Trumpet shall be sounded and We will gather them all together.
Jung cites this Qur’anic passage on the eschatological trumpet-blast as part of his analysis of apocalyptic imagery in the collective unconscious, framing the trumpet as a symbol of universal psychic summoning.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959thesis
the passage that provides the primary model for the locust plague of the fifth trumpet (9:1–12). Joel ends his terrifying description of the invading locust army on a note of hope.
Thielman identifies the fifth trumpet-plague of Revelation as modeled on Joel’s locust vision, arguing that the trumpet sequence serves a redemptive-warning function rather than pure destruction.
, Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach, 2005thesis
The sounding of God’s trumpet i[s reminiscent of God’s ‘rebuke’ of the enemies of his people when he comes to deliver them in the Old Testament].
Thielman locates the Pauline trumpet of the Parousia within the Old Testament tradition of divine combat, where God’s trumpet-sound signals victorious deliverance of his people.
, Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach, 2005supporting
a bass moaning sound, as if made with a big trumpet; and a shriller sound, as of a thigh-bone trumpet. Not only is this interesting as a theory of Tibetan sacred music, but it gives the clue to the esoteric interpretation of the symbolical natural sounds of Truth
Evans-Wentz equates the trumpet-sounds heard in the Bardo with the esoteric natural sounds of Truth proceeding from the intellectual faculties of the human mentality, embedding the trumpet within a psychology of post-mortem consciousness.
, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz Edition), 1927supporting
words not only angels with silver’s trumpet
In Hillman’s lexicon, the silver trumpet becomes a metaphor for the angelic and soul-bearing quality of words, connecting the instrument to imaginal and psychopoetic registers.
, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, 2023aside
aUA1tly�, -tyyoc; [m.] ‘trumpet’ (I 219). PG(S). DER aaA1t((w [v.] ‘to blow the trumpet, trumpet’ … As a word of Mediterranean culture, aUAmy� remains without lE connection; the suffix is Pre-Greek
Beekes establishes the Greek word for trumpet as a Pre-Greek Mediterranean loanword without Indo-European etymology, grounding the symbol in a substrate cultural stratum prior to classical rationalism.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting