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Used as a symbol of Saint Peter. A very common display in churches dedicated to Saint Peter. It has also been modernly used as a satanic or anti-Christian symbol. Eye of Horus: Ancient Egyptian religion: The eye of the god Horus, a symbol of protection, now associated with the occult and Kemetism, as well as the Goth subculture.
5,000 year-old triskelion on an orthostat at Newgrange. The triple spiral symbol, or three-spiral volute, appears in many early cultures: the first appeared in Malta (4400–3600 BCE); the second in the astronomical calendar of the megalithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland built around 3200 BCE; [13] as well as on Mycenaean vessels.
A less wound version of Image:Triskele-Symbol-spiral.svg, with one and two thirds turns in each spiral, instead of two. For a more elaborate spiral triskelion symbol (with three turns), see Image:Triple-Spiral-Symbol-filled.svg, and for the most elaborate version, see Image:Triple-Spiral-Symbol-4turns-filled.svg.
The spiral is a frequent symbol for spiritual purification, both within Christianity and beyond (one thinks of the spiral as the neo-Platonist symbol for prayer and contemplation, circling around a subject and ascending at the same time, and as a Buddhist symbol for the gradual process on the Path to Enlightenment).
A religious symbol is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a specific concept within a given religion. [ 1 ] Religious symbols have been used in the military in many countries, such as the United States military chaplain symbols .
'circle', [ˈmɐɳɖɐlɐ]) is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction.
Drawing a circle around the five points creates a similar symbol referred to as the pentacle, [1] which is used widely by Wiccans and in paganism, or as a sign of life and connections. The word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντάγραμμον ( pentagrammon ), [ 2 ] from πέντε ( pente ), "five" + γραμμή ( grammē ), "line ...
The names of the taijitu are highly subjective and some interpretations of the texts they appear in would only call the principle of taiji those names rather than the symbol. [further explanation needed] Since the 1960s, the He tu symbol, which combines the two interlocking spirals with two dots, has more commonly been used as a yin-yang symbol.