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- From: mongoose@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Conrad Leviston)
- Subject: Peace Symbol
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.032601.14462@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:26:01 GMT
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- [ Article crossposted from talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan ]
- [ Author was MCDONNELL, CATHERINE ]
- [ Posted on 24 Jan 93 03:20:00 GMT ]
-
- In article <1993Jan24.022044.6538@engage.pko.dec.com>, pub@riscee.pko.dec.com (Publius) writes...
- >In article <93023.143323IO10184@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO10184@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
- >>
- >> What a neat coincedance! I just snatched a book from a local
- >>bookstore that sheds light on this subject.
- >
- >The pagan and occult origin of the sign of cross was well-known to the
- >early Puritans. In New England, you can still find many historic
- >church buildings dated back to the Puritan days, and in NONE of them
- >can you find the sign of cross.
- >
- >So, is the "peace symbol" a pagan and occult symbol? Of course it is,
- >for it was derived from the sign of cross, which was one of the most
- >ancient pagan and occult symbols in human history.
-
- The peace symbol may very well evoke pagan or Christian symbols, but
- Cecil Adams in _More of the Straight Dope_ has the facts:
-
- "The design for the familiar crow's-foot-in-a-circle we know as the
- peace symbol was completed February 21, 1958, by British commercial
- artist Gerald Holtom. Holtom had been commissioned by the Campaign for
- Nuclear Disarmament, headed by philosopher Bertrand Russell. [...]
- It was a combination of the semaphore signals for N and D, standing
- for Nuclear Disarmament."
-
- Voila.
-
-
- Kate
- --
- Conrad Leviston | Got to find a brightness in the soul,
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