# What is this symbol? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485 "2006-07-14T15:48:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485/1 "2006-07-14T15:48:23Z")
On the bus yesterday, I saw a guy who had a black symbol tattoo on his neck that I KNOW I’ve seen before, but I can’t for the life of me remember where, or what it is, nor do I know how to go about finding out online, since I can’t indentify it. [This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/symbolwhatisit.jpg) is my very pathetic attempt to reproduce roughly what it consisted of in PSP. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485/2 "2006-07-14T16:03:04Z")
Why that’s the ‘single-triangled, doubled-shafted, two-eyeballed skeleton key with fish-hooks’. the hell if I know. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485/3 "2006-07-14T16:10:24Z")
To help, it almost looked like some kind of ram-the hooks were definitely horns of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485/4 "2006-07-14T16:17:08Z")
The link to your image is not working, but could it be Lucifer’s key to hell from Vertigo Comics’ Sandman and Lucifer series? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485/5 "2006-07-14T16:23:08Z")
I THINK I found it! [Mandalorian symbol](http://jk2files.jediknight.net/file.php?id=852) from _Star Wars_. It looked a LOT like that, only it was all in black, and much, oh, sharper. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485/6 "2006-07-14T21:55:36Z")
I’m picturing an old, old man explaining to his great-grandson. “No, it’s not a barn owl on stilts, boy. It’s a symbol showing that I was, uh, I was, malodorous, or something. It’s from a movie. What’s a movie, you ask? Well, that’s a tough one. Ask your ma.” ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/364485/7 "2006-07-14T23:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] I THINK I found it! [Mandalorian symbol](http://jk2files.jediknight.net/file.php?id=852) from _Star Wars_. It looked a LOT like that, only it was all in black, and much, oh, sharper. [/QUOTE] Amazingly, I recognized that from your sketch, and was all set to link to it. I seriously considered a tattoo of that when I was younger.