Nonsense.

a collection of stuff i like.

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A selection of pages from Rev. Christian Kauder's The Good Book, containing the Catechism, Meditations, Hymns (Vienna, 1866). This is a manual of Christian prayers, instructions, psalms, and hymns written in Mi'kmaq (or Micmac) ‘hieroglyphs’ — a mostly logographic writing system which was previously a purely pictographic mnemonic system in the form of birchbark carvings, later expanded and refined by Catholic missionaries as a fully fledged writing system for the Mi'kmaq language. For printing the book, Kauder collected more than 5,000 logograms, likely stylizing them with parts of the Greek and Roman alphabets and similar designs. The hieroglyphs are no longer used in everyday writing.

The first image is a translation of Gloria in Excelsis Dei; image 2 shows the second page of the Confiteor; image 3 is the first page of the Apostles' Creed; image 4 shows Agnus Dei.

Source: http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-micmac.html

Images contributed to Christus Rex website by Wolfgang Kuhl.

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What do some Alchemical Symbols look like? Glossary of symbols used in Alchemical Symbols organised alphabetically on Symbols.com

A huge list of alchemical sigils.

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An engraving by Andrew Bell for Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 3rd Edition (1797), listing various alchemical/early chemical symbols.

Credit:  'Chemistry: various alchemical symbols. Engraving by A. Bell.' . Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY

image file itself from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chemistry;_various_alchemical_symbols._Engraving_by_A._Bell._Wellcome_V0025484.jpg

No changes made. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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Why is THIS the power symbol? [LGR Retrospective]

LGR has written an eloquent and classy explanation of the history and meaning of the ubiquitous power symbol and related icons. For those interested, here’s a link to the list of graphical symbols he shows off in the video (the link can also be found in the video’s description)

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Code and cipher tables of Mary, Queen of Scots, circa 1596. A prime example of a classic nomenclator, this system lists names, words, and common letter combinations alongside their equivalent code symbol(s), in addition to a supplementary cipher alphabet to cover any words or names not listed in the code section. Nomenclators were employed by European royalty to conceal diplomatic as well as personal correspondences during the 15th century onward. They saw widespread use until the 1850s when they were superseded by the invention of the telegraph and Morse code.

The box in the upper left corner of the table contains a cipher alphabet where each plaintext letter has four symbol equivalents. The top half of the upper right box contains substitution symbols for common digraphs (including the letter W, which was historically a digraph), each of which has two equivalent symbols; the lower half lists signs to represent common English word endings.

Below this is a list of 31 null characters — these are meaningless signs intended to confuse decryption attempts — followed by a list of 16 symbols, 12 of which represent the months of the year, and four more representing the words “Ponds,” “Angels,” “Crownes [sic],” and “Ducats.”

The next line details the use of four specialized signs:

The first sign (resembling a cursive digit 1 or lowercase /) is used to represent a doubling of any preceding character (used to double a letter, for example)

The second sign (a small square) is used as a full stop or period

The third sign (resembling a cursive capital V) is used as parentheses

The fourth sign (resembling a lowercase j without the dot) makes any preceding character null

The rest of the table lists symbol equivalents of the names of key individuals and locations as well as common words and short phrases. The first three columns encrypt the names of individuals and places (many titles are abbreviated, such as k. for king, Q. for queen, E. for earl, and lo. for lord). The fourth through seventh columns list encryptions for common words as well as a few more names.

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Cipher used by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and Gran Capitán

Source

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A sample of the Sui writing system. Logographic and/or pictographic in nature. 

Used to write the Sui language, a Tai–Kadai language spoken by the Sui people of Guizhou province in China. The Sui language is written with Chinese characters for everyday writing purposes, while the Sui script is used by shamans for divination purposes. The Sui script is in danger of extinction but efforts are being made to revitalize it (Wikipedia). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Liùjiǎ_Fǎnshū,_Page_3.JPG

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A huge list of the 540 Shuōwén Jiězì Radicals (Chinese Seal Script characters btw).

Created by  LiliCharlie, 8 January 2015.

This was originally a .svg but I had to convert to .png to share here. Here’s the original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_540_Shuowen_Seal_Radicals_-_numbered.svg

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A tapestry depicting the fall of King Gruliac, seen during Garrett's venture into the Sunken Citadel in Thief: Deadly Shadows.

The Kurshok were an ancient and proud civilization that once held dominion over the surface world and were favored by the Trickster god (the primary antagonist of Thief: The Dark Project), who bestowed King Gruliac and his people with great power, prestige, and glory. But Gruliac grew ever arrogant and greedy, proclaiming himself "greater than the [Trickster] himself." The Trickster grew angry with the king's arrogance and caused their entire civilization to be buried deep underground where neither sun, nor moon, nor rain could reach. The once great Kurshok cities fell to ruin, the royal lineage eventually died out, and their culture, history, and even language (note the hieroglyphic inscription in the upper right corner) were gradually lost to time. Eventually, even the existence of the ancestral ‘aboveworld’ became the stuff of myth, and sincere believers were deemed ‘headsick’. The tapestry depicts the fall of King Gruliac and the subsequent ruin of the once mighty Kurshok civilization symbolized by the golden crown of power, a gift from the Trickster. Gruliac lost his hand and when he attempted to fight the Trickster and wrest ownership of it; although Gruliac managed to keep the crown, his hand—as well as his people—were destroyed.

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A selection of close-up shots of the spell books from the anime Zatch Bell!

The spell books feature prominently in the series and magic spells used in combat by the characters are imbued within the glyphic writing, which glows brightly when a spell is cast. The text within the books, as well as the books’ covers, appear in a wide variety of colors, and each character has a unique spell book.

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screencap of the complete Extended Zodiac http://hs.hiveswap.com/ezodiac/ (NOT made by me; i just wanted to share)

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Turkish tamga — (meaning 'seal' or 'stamp') these are the emblems of families, clans, or tribes used by Eurasian nomadic peoples during the middle ages. (originally from https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Şəkil:Damğa.jpg)

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Part of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech, written in 'Vertical English Character and Calligraphy' (VEC). VEC was invented by Yongsheng Zhao; the calligraphy is in English but designed to look like ancient (seal style) Chinese characters (to read, turn your head sideways). http://www.omniglot.com/gallery/vec/index.php?start=1

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current jam

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Everyone wrapped in blankets- I decided to do more after doing Mae’s

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oh my

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trying to present simple concepts that work best with a casual/unplanned atmosphere in a polished illustration

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Warmup sketch for LITW- Its getting chilly guys