Symbols have their own world.Each of the symbols have its own meaning and history.A symbol can represents an idea,thought or situation.I always get attracted with different types of symbols and then i get curiosity to know what that symbol is all about,what does it signify,and believe me those little symbols contains lot of information you can ever imagine.In this post I'am going to tell you about some of the symbols,there meaning,origin and history.Recently i saw the website of Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol .It had a game about symbols in which you have to identify the symbol.I assume most of the people have seen that but do you know what are all that symbols is about? How they came into existence and what they mean or signify?.So i will take some of the symbols from that and going to answers all the above questions.
1) Ying and Yang
The symbol came into existence long back during yin dynasty and western zhou dynasty around (1400 BC) in china.The significance of ying yang is considered to be an important part of the chinese medical book called huangdi neijing written about thousands years ago.According to ancient chinese people this symbol describes the two opposing force interconnected with each other.It means if one of the entity exists then it will always have complementary entity attached to it .some of the dualities like hot and cold,low and high,life and death.The male and female are also signify ying and yang.Chinese believed that balance between ying and yang should be there.
2) Meditation chant (OM)
Om is the mystical sanskrit sound of Hindus.It is sacred meditation chant of Hinduism,Buddhism and Jainism.The sanskrit name of it is pranava.Hindus believed that when the creation began,the divine mystical entity took form of the first vibration sounded like "Om".Before the creation it was shunyakasha meaning "no sky".The syllable "Om" is mentioned in all of the hindu upnishads.According to hindu philosophy Om represents the union of three hindu gods-Brahma,Vishnu and mahesh (Lord shiva).
3) Eye Of Horus
Horus was the ancient Egyptian god of sky.His right eye was associated with sun Ra.The eye of horus is a symbol of protection,power and good health.The eye of the horus is the central element of seven bracelets found on the mummy shoshenq II.It was intended to protect the king in the life after the death and to fight evil.There are seven different hieroglyphs used to represent the eye.The parts of the eye is used by egyptians in mathematics.The eye of horus was used to represent 1 divided by first six power of 2.
1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32+1/64
where
1/2-right side of eye
1/4-pupil
1/8-eyebrow
1/16-Left side of eye
1/32-curved tail
1/64-teardrop
4) French's monarch lily (fleur-de-lis)
In french fleur means flower and lis means lily.Basically it is stylized lily used as a decorative symbol.It is associated with french monarchy in historical context.According to french historian Georges duby the three leaves represents medievel social classes those who worked,those who fought and those who prayed.This symbol widely used in emblem of city and european coat of arms and flags.
5) The square and compasses
The sqaure and compasses is the symbol of freemasonry.Sqaure and compasses are the tool used by freemasons in masonic rituals.Sqaure in the symbol signifies the square of action and compasses signify to circumscribe and to keep us with in bounds with all mankind.The letter G in the center represents different words jurisdiction to jurisdiction.Some believe G stands for God which reminds mason that god resides in the center of freemasonry.In different context the G stands for Geometry the basis on which freemasonry is erected.
You can play the symbol quest game at- Play Symbol Quest on The lost symbol website
1) Ying and Yang
The symbol came into existence long back during yin dynasty and western zhou dynasty around (1400 BC) in china.The significance of ying yang is considered to be an important part of the chinese medical book called huangdi neijing written about thousands years ago.According to ancient chinese people this symbol describes the two opposing force interconnected with each other.It means if one of the entity exists then it will always have complementary entity attached to it .some of the dualities like hot and cold,low and high,life and death.The male and female are also signify ying and yang.Chinese believed that balance between ying and yang should be there.
Om is the mystical sanskrit sound of Hindus.It is sacred meditation chant of Hinduism,Buddhism and Jainism.The sanskrit name of it is pranava.Hindus believed that when the creation began,the divine mystical entity took form of the first vibration sounded like "Om".Before the creation it was shunyakasha meaning "no sky".The syllable "Om" is mentioned in all of the hindu upnishads.According to hindu philosophy Om represents the union of three hindu gods-Brahma,Vishnu and mahesh (Lord shiva).
3) Eye Of Horus
Horus was the ancient Egyptian god of sky.His right eye was associated with sun Ra.The eye of horus is a symbol of protection,power and good health.The eye of the horus is the central element of seven bracelets found on the mummy shoshenq II.It was intended to protect the king in the life after the death and to fight evil.There are seven different hieroglyphs used to represent the eye.The parts of the eye is used by egyptians in mathematics.The eye of horus was used to represent 1 divided by first six power of 2.
1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32+1/64
where
1/2-right side of eye
1/4-pupil
1/8-eyebrow
1/16-Left side of eye
1/32-curved tail
1/64-teardrop
4) French's monarch lily (fleur-de-lis)
In french fleur means flower and lis means lily.Basically it is stylized lily used as a decorative symbol.It is associated with french monarchy in historical context.According to french historian Georges duby the three leaves represents medievel social classes those who worked,those who fought and those who prayed.This symbol widely used in emblem of city and european coat of arms and flags.
5) The square and compasses
The sqaure and compasses is the symbol of freemasonry.Sqaure and compasses are the tool used by freemasons in masonic rituals.Sqaure in the symbol signifies the square of action and compasses signify to circumscribe and to keep us with in bounds with all mankind.The letter G in the center represents different words jurisdiction to jurisdiction.Some believe G stands for God which reminds mason that god resides in the center of freemasonry.In different context the G stands for Geometry the basis on which freemasonry is erected.
You can play the symbol quest game at- Play Symbol Quest on The lost symbol website
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