@Shanazel: I've never seen it like that ("Cutting away of the past").
Wow. This could make it easier. Like that you're giving swords a new spiritual meaning... But the origin is still bothering me. To me veils stand for clothes, candles for light but sabers...rather killing. And this was usually done by men in war(or some other occasion), of course I link it to men and masculinity. Ah how I hate linking men and war. I've recently dated a soldier-> That has made it much harder for me to hate war cause I just can't hate men
But back to the subject
Keep posting other possible meanings of sabers! Maybe you can convince me through that!