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- From: mongoose@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Conrad Leviston)
- Subject: Peace Symbol
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.032235.13648@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:22:35 GMT
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- [ Article crossposted from talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan ]
- [ Author was Paul Ciszek ]
- [ Posted on 23 Jan 93 06:20:05 GMT ]
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- haefner@infonode.ingr.com (Mark W. Haefner) writes:
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- >Recently several articles have been on the ankh and I thought I would
- >ask if anyone has information on where the "peace symbol" is derived
- >from. I have heard that its origins are occultic and was used by some
- >ancient pagan societies. Is this true? If so, who? Anyone care to
- >offer some reliable info?
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- According to Cecil Adams, the symbol originally stood for nuclear
- disarmament. The lines are a representation of semaphore signals for
- "N" and "D". I have actually seen peace signs drawn with the flags
- in place.
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- Paul Ciszek When we are planning for posterity, we
- ought to remember that virtue is not
- pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu hereditary. --Thomas Paine
- --
- Conrad Leviston | Got to find a brightness in the soul,
- mongoose@yoyo. | Not look outside to find out where we are,
- cc.monash.edu.au | Otherwise you won't be satisfied,
- Save the gherkin | 'Til you've made possession of the stars. (K.Wallinger)
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