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To: alt.pagan From: dickeney@access1.digex.net (Dick Eney) Subject: Re: Origins, history and meanings behind the peace sign??? Date: 7 Apr 1996 17:49:37 -0400 In article <4k8v14$61e@access4.digex.net>, Dick Eneywrote: >In article <31674D6D.366A@bendnet.com>, >Chris Hartley wrote: >>I don't know for a fact that this is the origin of the peace sign, but >>the interior of it is the same as the Norse Rune "Algiz" which Ralph >>Blum describes in his book "The Book of Runes" as representing >>Protection. Surely a link could be drawn between the concepts of >>protection, safety and peace? Like I said, no cold, hard facts, but >>maybe a starting place, idea? :) > >Heuristic coincidence. The Peace Sign was made by combining the semaphore >positions for N and D, standing for Nuclear Disarmament, which was the hot >topic at the time (anyone else remember the Cold War?). > >-- Tamar Lindsay (sharing account dickeney@access.digex.net) > [And the actual Dick Eney adds:] With a limited number of angular figures possible before we get into advanced geometry, it's inevitable that there would be coincidences like this. The Crooked Cross and the Algiz-rune are also both identical with the Nazi symbol for resurrection, if you check German newspaper obituary columns from the early '40s; that is | /|\ and I hope your newsreader doesn't garble that enough to mess up the glyph. For that matter, I found long ago that an English script E, with the upper line reflexed and drawn down vertically through the center of the letter, is as near as no matter the Chinese "grass script" character for "Wang". |----------Dick Eney (dickeney@access.digex.net)----------| |If you think the system isn't working, ask someone who is| |---------------------------------------------------------|
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