The symbol behind the peace sign?

The Peace sign looks like an upside down broken cross. Not sure of any connection.

The broken cross, "crux horribilis" in Latin, I beleive, inverted.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"Peace sign" redirects here. For the hand gesture called the "peace sign", see V sign.

A peace symbol is a representation or object that has come to symbolize peace. The dove and the olive branch, or a dove carrying an olive branch in its beak, are ancient symbols of peace; in the latter part of the twentieth century, the peace sign, developed by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and the V hand signal came into use around the world.

According to Nordic languages, the peace sign is the "death" rune with a circle around it.

Normally the "life" rune has it's three branches pointing up and the main part pointing down. In the "death" rune, the "life" rune is turned upside down, just like the Christian cross is turned upside down to represent Satan.

C.N.V.A Committee for Non Violent Action circa'60

It was the "ban the bomb" symbol before it was the "peace" sign. It was actually designed by someone...lost the link, but somebody ought to able to find it.

there is.

It was fashioned after a medieval symbol of Satanism, depicting the broken cross of Christianity. The “witch’s foot” or “raven’s foot,” as it was called in Europe, was then adopted by the Muslim world. When the Saracens invaded Spain in 711 A.D., the broken cross decorated their shields. In 1099 A.D., the Saracens fought the Crusaders under the same symbol. The symbol was chosen for the Aldermaster Easter Peace Walk by its well-known organizer, Bertrand Russell. The story about the semaphore symbols was an afterthought. Russell was fiercely opposed to all religion, but particularly Christianity. He had been an officer in the Communist Teachers League of England. The Daily Worker, which was the official newspaper of the Communist Party in the U.S., quoted Russell as saying: “There is no hope in anything but the Soviet way.” Russell was also a prominent member of the Fabian Society. After 1958, the so-called peace symbol became an indispensable accessory for just about every Communist-led movement throughout the Western world.

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it's to signify the death of man

See my blog for insight into how rumours about the peace sign were created and spread.

[link to passionatesceptic.blogspot.co.uk]

The peace sign is composed of two positions in semaphore, The N and the D for Nuclear Disarmament.

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Actually, if you want to know the TRUTH... It was a symbol popularized by Adam Weishaupt to represent the roman numeral V.

The Roman Numeral V stands for 5, representing the Illuminati 'Law of fives'....

It NEVER had anything to do with 'peace' until some hipsters were tricked to using it in the 1960's.


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Oh...just realized you are talking about the circle symbol...even more sinister that one, lol. That represents the 'NeroCross'...circular cross used by Nero to represent a "Sign of the Broken Christian" or 'Sign of the Broken Jew"

Last Edited by mrclean on 12/05/2012 01:55 PM