# Another Led Zep question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 14, 1999, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-led-zep-question/1951 "1999-07-14T05:01:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 1999, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-led-zep-question/1951/1 "1999-07-14T05:01:00Z")

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Does anyone know what the word “Zoso” means? It’s Jimmy Page’s symbol that first appeared on the fourth album along with the other band members’. I read that it has something to do with mercury but I think that’s not it.

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-Dave

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“Life is infinitely stranger than the mind of man can imagine.”

- A. Conan Doyle

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**Post date:** [July 14, 1999, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-led-zep-question/1951/2 "1999-07-14T12:27:00Z")

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The band never gave an explanation for it. It was part of their protest against commercialism; they wanted to produce an album with no information on the cover.