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- From: ailsa@wonky.UUCP (Ailsa N.T. Murphy)
- Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan,alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Peace Symbol
- Message-ID: <75-JNEWS-2.1@wonky.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:54:54 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.092131.18566@wetware.com> <C1GMq4.CA7@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> <1k466iINN4ed@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <1k466iINN4ed@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, cspot@cats.ucsc.edu (Christopher Edward Hilker) writes:
- >
- > u0d05@keele.ac.uk (PG Herzberg) writes:
- >
- >>theory three: Apparently it is semaphore. If you split it up into
- >>three component parts you get 0,| and Y(inverted) the O stands for
- >>whole and the other two are semaphore for N and D (ie total Nuclear
- >>Disarmament). (This sounds very silly I know but it wasn't me who
- >>dreamed it up).
- >
- > This is the theory I have heard. The corrolary to this theory is that
- > an inverted peace symbol represents unilateral disarmament (U-D).
- >
- NOT that i am claiming that this is a correct theory or anything, but
- when i was taking german, my professor (an elderly german gentleman)
- said that the peace symbol was designed from the germanic rune for
- peace, but that the designers were ignorant of runes and used a rune
- that was the barrow, or the peace of the grave. if they had been
- knowlegeable, he said, they would have reversed the symbol and had a
- tree, or peace that is alive and grows. i've read a littel about runes
- since then, and none of that sounds familiar, but it was interesting
- anyway...
-
- -ailsa
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