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Does anyone know what the hell this is? I can’t seem to get this symbol out of my head. I have seen it spray painted in really strange places in Seattle over the past year or so (banks, buildings, churches). The funny thing is, it’s always gone within a few weeks. All of the other graffiti in the city seems to stay up for months before it’s cleaned up, but this has seemingly popped up and disappeared sometimes within a few hours.
I described it to a friend who had seen it as well, and about two weeks later he emailed me this (a variation of it he did on photoshop from memory). He posted it on his myspace as a blog with a small blurb about it, basically asking our network of peers involved in unexplained phenomena if they had seen anything like it. The next day his myspace account, as well as our friends who contributed responses (myself and four others) were all deleted. They said we had contributed inappropriate material and consequently were in violation.
Now this is where is seems to get a bit stranger…I emailed a group of peers about it, which started a little banter back and forth, mostly because a few of them claim to have seen it in on Flower St. in downtown LA (my old hometown) and at the L train station on Minneapolis Street in Chicago (where my buddy moved with his wife). No one has gotten a good picture yet..I am asking anyone with pictures of this to please send them to me, mostly to prove to my skeptic buddies that I’m not seeing a national Fraternity logo (doesn’t seem like they would spray paint it on the side of banks and skyscrapers? Taggers generally don’t join Frats, and I’ve never seen a gang use a logo like this). It looks very enigmatic and resembles a more modern illuminati symbol (although I guess it could be a just a product, band or website promotion).
Eric’s Photoshop Rendition of the symbol:
This is my conclusion so far:
There is definitely a E and a W in the symbol. So we looked up European Union symbols, the European Workers Force, and many others to no avail. W, the 23rd letter of the alphabet seems pretty apparent, as does the letter E, the 5th letter. 5 plus 23 = 28.
E corresponds to Epsilon in Greek, which happens to also mean “…1. n. A small quantity of anything. i.e. “The cost is epsilon.”.
W is a bit more tricky. According to Wikipedia, a letter resembling a lower case w, also referred to as ‘Omega’, translates to a few things: Year or date of death, The symbol of the Resistant Movement against the Vietnam-era draft, and of course, loosely means the ‘end’ of something. Other ideas are that it represents Digamma, as taken from Wikipedia “…The digamma survives even today as /v/ in the Modern Greek Tsakonian dialect, the only dialect not descended from ancient Koine Greek, the famous, and only, example being βάννε /'vannε/ "lamb" for standard Greek αρνί) (cf. Cretan Ϝαρήν).”
So, this may be a stretch, but could it mean “small group” or “elite group” (Epsilon) of (Omega) “death/ the end” or possibly “lamb”, as in “the lamb of god” (the alternate name for Jesus Christ, not the band – although we did look on the band’s website for the logo, ha!)
As mentioned earlier 5 + 23 is 28.
The number 5 is the most flexible of all numbers, a number of change.
Other ideas on 5 include:
Five is the symbol of human microcosm. The number of the human being. Human forms---the pentagon when arms and legs are out stretched. The pentagon is endless ---sharing the symbolism of perfection and power of the circle. Five is a circular number as it produces itself in its last digit when raised to its own power. The pentacle, like the circle symbolizes whole, the quincunx being the number of its center and the meeting point of heaven, earth, and the four cardinal points plus the center point.
The number 23 in symbolism is shown as two separate numbers joined "…the principle of organization (the number 3), acting on the differentiation of the world in spirit and matter (the number 20), to allow precisely the incarnation of the spirit in the matter, 2 + 3 = 5", according to R. Allendy.
A few more thoughts on 23:
• The 23 days of the "physical" cycle in the biorhythm.
• The ovule and the spermatozoon are composed both of 23 chromosomes.
• The words leprous, dragon and blasphemy are used 23 times in the Bible.
Hmmm…….
28 also happens to mean ‘leadership’ in Numerology, as well as being the Second perfect number because this number is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts. Other general answers include:
• Number of days that would have contemplated Buddha under the fig tree, according to Buddhists, corresponding to one lunar month.
• The 28 paradisiac or angelic levels which exist above the human state, according to the Brahmans.
• Inside the Great Pyramid, 28 miniature tombs are sculpted in the "wall of stone" of the Great Gallery.
Can anyone else make a connection? I will state my conclusion and offer a few hypotheses regarding the symbol (put on your tin foil hats in …3,2,1, NOW, lol)
1. This is some sort of viral marketing plan aimed at the conspiracy enthusiast. For what? I have no idea. Most of us are broke.
2. Taggers have become really involved in symbolism instead of letters?
3. There is finally a Fraternity that I REALLY want to join.
4. There is a group of illuminati enthusiasts who have organized a symbolic ‘calling card’ to try to attract the attention of people pursuing the truth, or possibly the so-called ‘illuminated ones’ themselves?
5. A bunch of crackpot Freemasons or people posing as the Elite working as a kind of double agent in order to deter serious inquiry into their leaders (or idols, whatever)
6. This is a small group hysteria due to me and my friends’ overactive imagination and experimenting with LSD 20 years ago.
I have many unanswered questions, including why all the obvious correlation to Symbols and Numerology? It was apparent to me the moment I saw the symbol up. Did anyone else notice? Why is it only temporarily up, and why as a physical ‘tag’ on buildings? Who is taking it down? I contacted the police department about it and was basically made to feel crazy, saying they see and take down anything that doesn’t belong on a wall, period. Have I finally crossed into the ‘nutball’ realm? SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!
In any case, someone knew exactly what they were putting up when they did this, and they were looking to get the attention of a certain group of people, almost like a calling card…or maybe it’s all a coincidence?
I’m left scratching my head…I will follow up with pics, please send any if you see it!
Gary W. Musenetti
Did you get to find out why?
Interesting, hope you find out something.
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I wonder what would come up if you ran the barcodes across a scanner?
