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* yōd symbol in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet Paleo-Hebrew alphabet] | * yōd symbol in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet Paleo-Hebrew alphabet] | ||
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Revision as of 07:37, 29 January 2022
Contents
Description
This symbol appeared in the card Zodiac sent to Paul Avery on Oct 27, 1970. It also appeared on the envelope the card came in.
It is sometimes called the "VF" symbol.
Interpretations and comparisons
Construction
- Wide flange beam. From Robert Graysmith's book "Zodiac":
As for the new Zodiac symbol, readers as far away as Detroit wrote to say it represented a Wide Flange Beam, a structural steel shape used in building construction. Some felt that Zodiac was some sort of civil engineer.
Chemistry
- Chemical compound 1-Pentene (scroll down a bit to see the section about pentenes)
- Image:
Cattle brands
- Red Ryder ranch cattle brand symbol ("flying V F bar")
- Details
- Image (the brand appears on the cow in the upper right corner):
- Example of that brand on a live cow:
Excerpt:
Maps / Geography
- Intersection in Vallejo
- Map overlay
- A silhouette of Mount Diablo
- "An abstraction of the Zodiac's eyes and car headlights emerging from the Diablo mountain range." (source)
- "Diamond sign" from Japanese treasure map
Excerpt:
- A method of finding the symbol in Z340
- Mason marks
- Another idea about finding the symbol in Z340
- A stylized form of pigpen cipher
Writing systems / early alphabets
- Bat Creek inscription
- Apparently a Newsweek article about the Bat Creek Stone was published just one week before the Zodiac mailed the Halloween card (source)
- Excerpted symbol from the full image:
- Ogham alphabet
- Mike Rodelli proposes the symbol is a combination of the Norse runes Ansuz and Laguz.
- Ansuz: ᚨ
- Laguz: ᛚ
- Elder Futhark
- Early Norwegian house marks (bumerker)
- Cooke and Wheatstone codes
- French hobo system, "Here live friendly people"
- yōd symbol in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
- yod symbol in Phoenician alphabet
