Describing a paradigm of research which aims at exploring the metaphoric problematic that supports the intellectual and emotional construct of energies and tensions any language stands for and intimately relies upon, this study (re)visits, from a cultural and stylistic perspective, the long, yet enthralling route metaphors build from plain commonness to absolute mystery and inaccessibility. Imbued with mythological, philosophical, religious, anthropological as well as scientific reflexions, the cultural metaphor transfigures, at its highest, the game of creative intertextuality while magnificently highlighting its ontological dimension. Like the world itself, metaphor is nothing but an enigma (Aristotle), an instrument that God uses to build His creation (Ortega y Gasset), and which transforms any human being into a universe (Gillo Dorfles). There is no escape from metaphors, as I. A. Richards pointed out almost a century ago; furthermore, E. L. Doctorow argued that the development of civilisations is essentially a progress of metaphors. Consequently, social sciences - sociology, history, philosophy, psychology, economics, political sciences, law, geography, education rely upon metaphors to construct their dominant scaffolding that often replicates patterns taken from mythology, philosophy, religion and science. Interpreting metaphors may be read in terms of explaining the cleavage that separates different cultural horizons and this is one of the angles of research of this study, inspired by Vico’s belief that man has imposed his own nature to surrounding nature through great anthropomorphic metaphors giving thus birth to culture and cultures.