I was at a pub restaurant yesterday and noticed that the guy next to me had a strange tattoo design on his hand.
My first though was that he was some kind of White Nationalist but he didn’t exactly look like one!
The design was 2 concentric circles with a cross in the inner one. I’ve drawn what it looked like here:
Does anyone have any idea what it was? The only thing I picked up was that his wife mentioned about going to church so I wondered if it was some kind of religious symbol?
The Anti Defamation League has several common logos and tattoos for hate groups here: http://archive.adl.org/hate_symbols/default_graphics.asp. Does it look like any of those. My first thought was a Christian Identity symbol, but that’s a little different than what you drew.
Where was this, by the way? That might help narrow it down.
I have tee-shirt that indicates i am associated with the Justice League, and another that implies I vacation in Margaritaville. He could just be wearing that shirt as part of the disinformation campaign. No true sniper would wear a shirt that announces he (or she) will put a round through your head at two miles.
It superficially looks like a Sun Cross, except that the space between the two circles isn’t filled in. The sun cross was used to represent, well, the Sun in bronze-age Europe, and is still used in various neo-Pagan religions.
If I interpret your meaning correctly, perhaps that tattoo was a Circle of Courage. It’s a native (North American Indian/First Nations) symbol based on the traditional medicine wheel.
Astrology and astronomy used to be… not quite one and the same, but the way astronomers would get funding used to be thanks to the astrological predictions; they did not distinguish the two concepts, an astro-map was both astrological and astronomical. Same as alchemy eventually became chemistry, astrology eventually grew up and bought a telescope.
