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Been living in LA over half a century. The weather here has been unique, to say the least. Never before had thunder literally shake the building I'm in. Happened last week. Nothing here is normal. And not in the usual ways. Just today was odd between clear blue sky and black downpours.
Not my thing, but many of these symbols are attached to the original Hebrew alphabet. Y would be the first letter of God's name, which would be symbolically powerful (there is no J in Hebrew; YHWH is the Father, and Yehoshua the Son).
The Early Semitic pictograph of this letter is , an arm and hand. The meaning of this letter is work, make and throw; the functions of the hand. The Modern Hebrew name yud is a derivative of the two letter word (yad), a Hebrew word meaning "hand," the original name for the letter.
The ancient and modern pronunciation of this letter is a "y." In Ancient Hebrew this letter also doubled as a vowel with an "i" sound. The Greek language adopted this letter as the vowel iota, retaining the "i" sound.
The ancient pictograph became the in the Middle Semitic script. The letter continued to evolve into the simpler form in the Late Semitic script. The Middle Semitic form became the Greek and Roman I. The Late Semitic form became the Modern Hebrew
(the images did not transfer over; think of a Y that got drunk and fell down counterclockwise, with one foot up in the air)