Name | Image | Origins | Notes |
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Ankh | Ancient Egypt | Ancient Egyptian symbol for eternal life; now also associated with Kemetism and neo-paganism. |
Arrow (Belomancy) | Ancient divination. | ---- |
Black Sun | Renaissance Germany; later, neo-Nazi occultism. | ---- |
Circled dot | Ancient symbol representing the Sun and various sun gods. | See also: evil eye and alchemical symbol., Dave Talbott says the symbol is Mars,Venus,and Saturn. Saturn was called the sun in ancient times. Mars was thought to be between the sun and Earth. |
Chaos (Symbol of Chaos) | Michael Moorcock, Aleister Crowley and chaos magic. | ---- |
Evil eye | Hellenic talisman. | ---- |
Eye of Providence (or the all-seeing eye of God) | Ancient Egypt, Freemasonry & Cao Dai. | See tetragrammaton and yhwh. |
Hexagram | Mandala and Judaism. | ---- |
Magic circle | European witchcraft. | ---- |
Monas Hieroglyphica | the works of John Dee | A symbol invented by John Dee, alchemist and astrologer at the court of Elizabeth I of England |
Nazar | Middle Eastern talisman to ward off the evil eye. | ---- |
Pentacle | European witchcraft. | Example of inverted pentacle. See also: Pentagram. |
Rosy Cross | Rosicrucianism / Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. | ---- |
Seal of Solomon | Alchemy, Christian and Islamic esotericism | ---- |
Sriramachakra | Tamil mysticism. | ---- |
Sigil | Renaissance magic. | Image provided depicts a modern personal sigil. |
Sigillum Dei (Seal of God) | Europe, late Middle Ages. | ---- |
Sulphur | Alchemy; Satanism. | The alchemical symbol for sulphur, the soul, and the sun, associated with the fire and brimstone of Hell. Can also be known as a 'Leviathan Cross'. Also known as the Diamond King's symbol. The Double cross symbolizes protection and balance between persons. The infinity sign underlines the constant and infinite nature and most likely symbolizes the eternal universe. |
Sun cross | Iron age religions and later gnosticism and neo-paganism. | ---- |
Unicursal hexagram (Thelema) | Aleister Crowley's Thelema. | ---- |
Valknut | Norse mythology. | ---- |
Kolovrat | Slavic neo-paganism | Popularized in 1990s. |
Ouroboros | Ancient Egypt | ---- |