Anonymous ID: d7bd5b Dec. 19, 2018, 10:21 p.m. No.4387677   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7717

Interesting…Thor's Hammer is included.

There are 50 symbols currently allowed on the gravestones of US military personnel. The Wiccan pentacle was only approved in 2007 after a fight that invoked President George W Bush's views on the faith, though other symbols, such as Thor's Hammer, have been added with less of a fight. Most recently a Sandhill Crane was approved for the first same-sex spouse member buried in a military cemetery. Military gravestones are very light on symbolism, however, compared to older religious gravestones or, say, the Victorians.

https://www.metafilter.com/129820/Grave-symbols-of-many-faiths

Anonymous ID: d7bd5b Dec. 19, 2018, 10:44 p.m. No.4387897   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The shape of a sideways figure eight has a long pedigree; for instance, it appears in the cross of Saint Boniface, wrapped around the bars of a Latin cross.[1] However, John Wallis is credited with introducing the infinity symbol with its mathematical meaning in 1655, in his De sectionibus conicis.[1][2][3][4] Wallis did not explain his choice of this symbol, but it has been conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral for 1,000 (originally CIƆ, also CƆ), which was sometimes used to mean "many", or of the Greek letter ω (omega), the last letter in the Greek alphabet.[5]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_symbol