Needed: arcane designs

Fairly simple to draw.

Off the top of my head -

Pentagram
Yin-yang
Snake
Moon

How about zodiacal and elemental symbols (the old kind, dummy). I’m sure there’s a web catalogue of them.

Alchemical symbols.
http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/alchemist/alchemy.html

Zodiacal symbols.
http://members.aol.com/sunaelurus/zodiac.htm

Are you interested in the various ethnic, or just traditional Western European? Check out things like “native american symbols”, “Korean symbols”, etc.

Mayan orthography? Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Well, I’m drawing these on my body for a performance (thus the “easy to draw”) I want them fairly easily recognizable and basic - possibly something that you would see in several cultures. Thus all of my original list could be described with a single word.

Is “a recognizable arcane symbol” an oxymoron? I forgot just how arcane this board could get. :smiley:

I’m adding “spiral”, “hand”, and “eye” to my list.

Maybe I should have titled this thread “Draw on Zyada”. :stuck_out_tongue:

How about the male & female symbols?
And then there’s this… :slight_smile:

You could try the Ankh, or the modern three-moon symbol, kinda like )O( or well just about anything out of a book of Egyptology. If you feel like diggin up a book, “The Magician’s Companion” by Bill Whitlaw (?) is chock full of symbols from all over the world.

One of the infinity symbols like the figure 8 on its side or a snake swallowing its own tail. [sub]Psst! When ya gonna finish the tarot readings?[/sub]

All of the Lucky Charms if you are using colors!
…or Luckki Chaarms (sp?)?

suits in a deck

toner low/paper jam

handicapped symbol

no dumping

biohazard

‘no idiots’ (the ‘no’ symbol circle with diagonal slash over the word)… or ‘no asshles’, 'no sht’, or even ‘no use for you’… HEYYYY that would be funny in that t-shirt sayings thread…

Wait. There aren’t idiots in other cultures so that wouldn’t be fair.

(fee-you… got meself outta that one :).

(does it show that I just got out of work?)

target

left turn only (w/arrow)

those dated Zeppelin symbols from “4”

recycle

JUST being silly (which also needs a symbol)

peace
P

Eye of Ra
Triskle

Pawprint
sun
stars

dragons
horses
frogs
dogs
cats
people
cows

what? you’re telling me those are too hard?
okay . . .

moon
goldfish! (like the snack)
and . . .

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aren’t they cute?

the above^

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