Ichthus ichthus, which can also be spelled ichthys, is the Greek word for fish, and was a symbol used by early Christians to identify one another. Ichthus and the early Christians It was a symbol of the early Christians to identify each other. During the times of persecution of Christianity, a Christian traced one of …
Chi rho It is formed by superimposing the letters, chi (X) and rho (P) The Chi Rho is one of the first cruciform symbols used by Christians. It is formed by superimposing the first two letters of the word “Christ” in Greek, chi = ch and rho = r.Source Chi rho as an abbreviation for …
Dragon The Dragon is a fabulous animal and universal symbolic figure found in most of the world’s cultures, primitive, classical or oriental. In the medieval West, dragons have the bust and legs of an eagle, the body of a huge serpent, the wings of a bat, and a tail that ends in a dart and …
Pentagram The pentagram is a five pointed figure formed by producing the sides of a pentagon both ways to their point of intersection, so as to form a five-pointed star The pentagram (also called pentacle, pentalpha, pentancle, pentagle, or pentangle) is thought by some occultists to trace its esoteric significance to an astronomical observance of …
Ouroboros The Ouroboros is a self-sustaining, tail-eating snake, This idea of the life cycle devouring its own tail can seem like a futile process where all that is achieved is ultimately destroyed. But this image of Ouroboros suggests a way to perceive it as an enfolding where the past (the tail) appears to disappear but …
Days of week Symbols For Days Of The Week Don’t want to write out a whole three letters as an abbreviation of the days of the week? Think “H” for Thursday (because ‘T’ is already taken for Tuesday) looks silly? Consider “Sa” and “Su” dorky-looking? Or do you just like the idea of pretty, concise …
Caduceus The Caduceus, Hermes/Mercury emblem, is a rod around which two snakes serpente in opposite directions and that in the upper part have small wings or a winged helmet. What is the origin of the Caduceus? – The myth of curled snakes According to the myth, Mercury/Hermes Hermes intervened in front of two fighting snakes. …
Ein sof God’s infinite light, before the beginning of the creative process. Ein-Sof, the Infinite God, has no static, definable form. Instead, the Kabbalists conceive God, the world and humanity as evolving together through, and thus embodying, a number of distinct stages and aspects, with later stages opposing, but at the same time encompassing, earlier …
Triskele Its graphic representation is three spiral lines joined at a central point that can be circular or triangular. It is attributed to the Druids as a sacred symbol and refers to the number three. The Druids were the priestly class of the Celtic culture. The Celts were a series of tribes that were distributed …
Swastika The swastika is a symbol consisting of four crossed gamma letters. The swastika is also called “gammadion” because, being a four-armed cross (tetrakelion), it can be formed by joining four gamma letters. Origin of the swastika symbol The swastika is a symbolic symbol that is widespread throughout the Eurasian area, North Africa and all …