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Deetee
7th October 2004, 11:00 AM
Could anyone help identify these symbols?
(answers needed for a quiz I'm trying to finish) :)

Deetee
7th October 2004, 11:01 AM
Also this one, sorry:

neutrino_cannon
9th October 2004, 07:53 PM
Hmm...

Do you have names for either symbol? Groups that use them?

Alas, you can;tlug an image into google, and I don't recognize either one.

c4ts
9th October 2004, 08:17 PM
First symbol: Cup of flaming alcohol
Religion: Mormonism, because they'll burn in hell for drinking it.

Second symbol: The seven-bladed talking vorpal death scepter of the half-dragon vampire mystic theruge Morgash as he decapitates an army of mind flayers with one hand tied behind his back!
Religion: You know, I really wasn't looking at the symbol anyway.

Donks
9th October 2004, 09:15 PM
The first one might be the Flaming Chalice of the Unitarian Church.

SezMe
9th October 2004, 09:27 PM
Originally posted by Donks
The first one might be the Flaming Chalice of the Unitarian Church.
No, theirs looks like the genie bottle and has only one flame.

mummymonkey
10th October 2004, 02:38 AM
The first one could be adar. The zoroastrian flame.

Deetee
11th October 2004, 02:07 AM
Many thanks for the suggestions so far - I'll try and follow the mormon link for No1.

The symbols are from a quiz sheet - I haven't scanned them but tried to reproduce them from memory. I think the second one with doesn't have the upturned ends which make it look like a flame - they are more petal shaped (a bit like a lotus flower?)

The symbols are meant to represent the religion, rather than just be part of their symbolism in general, I think.

Vim Razz
11th October 2004, 03:28 AM
I agree that adar (http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsadar.htm) seems like a good canidate for the first.

The second looks a lot like a lotus (http://www.wagnerur.hu/vegyes2/lotus.jpg). Buddist/Hindu?

crimresearch
11th October 2004, 07:09 AM
The Buddhist lotus is usually 8 petalled, isn't it?