To: alt.magick
From: Perimage <Perimage@f269.n115.z1.fidonet.org>
Subject: Does Anyone Know What This... (9409.jpzoso-.pm)
Date: 49940914
Quoting: |>Steven Wheeler (swheeler@lawson.its.utas.edu.au) wrote:
	 |ttiger@netcom.com (ttiger) 

|>This may seem like a strange question to ask, but I think this is probably
|>the best forum to ask this.  Any Led Zeppelin fans among will be aware of
|>the symbols the bandmembers adopted for their fourth album, the album itse
|>is sometimes referred to as "Four Symbols."  Of the four members,

|that his is the _only_ real rune used, it is the others that were created
|for the album.  I don't remeber where, but I do believe that I have seen
|it in some runic alphabet.

|Actually, it isn't even close to the alchemy symbol for mercury.  That
|symbol is more like the currently common symbol for women (a circle on
|top of a cross, also the symbol for venus) with the addition of "horns."
|It does have a minor resemblance to the symbol for Jupiter.


|> Here's the best ASCII representation I have come up with...
|>                                       __
|>              _________               /  \
|>             /         \             / /\ \
|>  Shoulder->/________  /    ____    / / /_/   ____
|>                    / /    / __ \   \ \      / __ \
|>                   / /    / / _\ \___\ \____/ /_ \ \
|>  Arm->           / /    | | |__  _____  ___  __| | |
|>                 / /      \ \__/ /     \ \  \ \__/ /
|>                / /        \____/    __ \ \  \____/
|>               / /                  / / / /
|>              / /                   \ \/ /olomon
|>  Elbow->    /  \                    \__/               _
|>             \   \                  ______             //
|>              \   \    ____        /_  __/            //
|>               \   \  / __ \         | |             //    <--Key
|>                \   \/ /  \ \________| |____________//
|>                 \    _\  / ________________________/
|>                  \   \__/ /
|>  Hand->           \      /
|>                    \____/

|That is about as close a rendition as you can get with ascii...and a very
|nice job too!

<CAVEAT> Lettering added to TTIGER's ASCII representation by me.

This looks as though it may be a refernce to S.L.MacGregor Mathers "The
Key of Solomon the King" (Clavicula Salomonis). The bottom ten lines or
so resemble some antique keys, the "zoso" includes the "S" of Solomon
and a glyph that *could* be another "key."  The leftmost portion seems
as though it *might* be an arm and hand.  I can not find anything
in the book which shows a close resemblance to the image presented here
(I have not seen the album cover).

Incidentally, this does not look like *any* runes which I have seen.

|For those who aren't familiar with the album, or have forgotton, the
|band members "runes" are as follows:

|Jimmy Page; guitarist, producer, music writer; as shown above.

|Robert Plant; singer, song writer; a feather in a circle

A feather in a circle is an old symbol for a scribe, very appropriate
for a songwriter, or any other writer.  It is used by the USN as a badge
for an NCO whose duties involve record keeping (yeoman) (actually, I
think that uses *crossed* feathers).  The symbolism stems from the use
of feathers as pens prior to the invention of steel-nib pens in the 18th
century.

B*B
PeriMage

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