# Needed: arcane designs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974 "2001-12-05T04:13:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/1 "2001-12-05T04:13:21Z")
Fairly simple to draw. Off the top of my head - Pentagram Yin-yang Snake Moon ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/2 "2001-12-05T04:23:58Z")
How about zodiacal and elemental symbols (the old kind, dummy). I’m sure there’s a web catalogue of them. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/3 "2001-12-05T04:41:27Z")
Alchemical symbols. [http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/alchemist/alchemy.html](http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/alchemist/alchemy.html) Zodiacal symbols. [http://members.aol.com/sunaelurus/zodiac.htm](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? ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/4 "2001-12-05T05:56:19Z")
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. 😃 I’m adding “spiral”, “hand”, and “eye” to my list. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/5 "2001-12-05T06:00:34Z")
Maybe I should have titled this thread “Draw on Zyada”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/6 "2001-12-05T06:08:16Z")
How about the male & female symbols? And then there’s this… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/7 "2001-12-05T06:13:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/8 "2001-12-05T06:18:11Z")
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] ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/9 "2001-12-05T06:32:59Z")
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 assh_les’, 'no sh_t’, 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 ---
**Author:** ![Ferggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Ferggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferggie)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/10 "2001-12-05T08:02:19Z")
Eye of Ra Triskle ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/11 "2001-12-05T08:57:19Z")
Pawprint sun stars ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/12 "2001-12-05T09:14:38Z")
dragons horses frogs dogs cats people cows what? you’re telling me those are too hard? okay . . . moon goldfish! (like the snack) and . . . ( )( ) (\>’;’\<) (’’)(’’)~o \<:3 ) ~~~~ aren’t they cute? ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-arcane-designs/96974/13 "2001-12-05T09:15:58Z")
the above^ ( )( ) (\>’;’\<) (’’)(’’)~o