#metaphor

• To set — To sink below the horizon, to disappear from view (said of the sun, moon, or other celestial bodies), marking the end of the day or the visibility interval of that star; to set. In a figurative, delicate, and literary sense, the term means to pass away, to die, to fade, or to gradually lose one's brightness, glory, or structural importance over time.
• Sunset — The act of setting and its result; the astronomical process by which a celestial body (especially the Sun) descends below the horizon due to the Earth's rotation. In a structural and artistic sense, it represents the moment of transition from day to night, characterized by spectacular atmospheric optical phenomena, frequently used as a metaphor for decline, end, or the sunset of life.
• Astrălina — A very rare poetic or regional archaism used in traditional incantations or old folk poetry to describe a state of spectral brightness, a pale light reflected by the stars (astral rays), or a nocturnal mythological entity associated with the sky. It represented a structural plastic metaphor used to suggest immaterial purity, night guidance, and the unseen influence of stars on earthly destiny.
• Astreu — A phonetically adapted variant in old Romanian for the mythological proper name 'Astraeus'; a Hellenic Titan deity associated with the celestial vault, stars, and twilight. In early poetic texts or cosmological manuscripts, the term was used as a common noun or metaphor to denote a solitary celestial body, a bright star, or a luminous guide in the night darkness.
• All-devouring — Eating, consuming, devouring, or destroying everything absolutely; all-devouring, all-consuming. In a literary or mythological sense, the term is used as a vivid metaphor or epithet to describe implacable forces such as time (all-consuming time), raging fire, or death, suggesting a capacity for total destruction.
• Avernus — The ancient name of a volcanic lake located in the Campania region of Italy (Lago d'Averno), considered in Greek and Roman mythology to be the gateway to the underworld, Hades, or the Inferno; in an extended literary sense, the term is used as a poetic or allegorical metaphor to denote hell, death, darkness, or an endless abyss. The name etymologically derives from the Greek 'aornos' (birdless), due to the belief that toxic gas emendations killed any bird flying over it.
• Avernus — The classical Latin form of the toponym Avernus (Lago d'Averno), denoting the volcanic crater lake near Cumae (Italy), anciently regarded as the entrance to the Underworld; the term is widely used in academic literature, classical philology, and faithful translations of Virgil's works (The Aeneid) to evoke the subterranean realm of shades and the god Hades. Its etymology points to the absence of birds, due to toxic sulfurous gases emitted by the area's volcanic activity.
• Blindman's buff — A popular children's game in which one of the participants is blindfolded with a scarf or handkerchief and must search for, catch, and identify the other players moving around them; by extension, it denotes a confused action, a blind search, or a situation in which someone acts at random without clear reference points.
• Babel — The biblical name of the city of Babylon, famous for the Tower of Babel, a monumental building erected by humans to reach heaven, an act of pride punished by God by confounding their languages; by extension, the term denotes a place where total confusion reigns, a chaotic mix of languages, peoples, or conflicting opinions where nobody understands anyone.
• Babylon — A place, environment, or situation characterized by utter confusion, deep disorder, a chaotic mixture of people, languages, opinions, or different cultures, where effective communication becomes impossible; a noisy and tumultuous urban crowd that symbolically evokes biblical disorder.
• Babylonian — Pertaining to Babylon or Babylonia, relating to the Babylonian civilization; (metaphorically or literary) characterized by extreme confusion, deep disorder, deafening noise, or a chaotic mixture of languages and contradictory opinions; Babel-like.
• Pandemonium — A state of complete confusion, uproar, deep disorder, or a chaotic mixture of people, languages, opinions, or contradictory interests in a certain place or group; an absurd situation where communication and mutual understanding become impossible, symbolically evoking the legend of the Tower of Babel.
• Bahus — A regional spelling or phonetic variant in Romanian for Bacchus (Dionysos in Greek mythology), the Greco-Roman god of wine, vegetation, mystic ecstasy, and festivities. In literary and colloquial language, the term is used figuratively as a personification of wine, lavish parties, or a passion for alcohol consumption.
• Heartstrings — Plural form of the noun 'baieră', predominantly utilized within fixed idioms, locutions, and traditional phrasing. In a profound and figurative sense, the term denotes the most intimate depths of the human being, the emotional core, or the anatomical valves of the heart, viewed as the locus of intense feelings.