Tantz_Aerine at 12:28PM, May 7, 2017

Morgan: The bottom line is, they still recognize it as a mushroom cloud, not a flourishing tree :) // Bravo: Quite right. As for the swastika, one could say modern history has turned it into the penultimate creation/deluge symbom exactly because of that, haha! Though it would be deluge more now.

MOrgan at 4:49AM, May 7, 2017

Tantz, if you ever saw my drawing of trees and mushrooms clouds you'd see the similarities. Big, bushy heads, thin trunks spreading out at the ground. If I didn't add color, people would get very confused looking at what I'd drawn. ;-)

bravo1102 at 4:30PM, May 6, 2017

The Aordian symbol is a bisected trapezoid. A very stylized Yin-Yang, cycle of life symbol. And the fact that its edges are square and not round implies a rigidity that may be there or not. I try to use symbols to mislead the audience. Like Aordians mostly wear black and the supposedly "evil" Diamorians wear white and sky blue. You see they as the eternal enemy perverted those colors in the distant past. It's the trickster in my nature.

bravo1102 at 4:23PM, May 6, 2017

Just because a symbol means one thing in one context doesn't mean it always mean that no matter how much of an archetype it is. Archetypes can be used for irony and can be perverted. After all the swastika/sun wheel was/is a positive symbol before the Nazis perverted it. Look at its continued use in Eastern Culture/American Indians and the Finns. And yes the mushroom cloud can be used a perverted and/or ironic symbol of the re-birth of the world tree. See Armageddon, Ragnarok and Gotterdamerung imagery. The mushroom cloud can be seen as imagery of death and the rebirth that follows. How many post-apocalyptic stories start with the bomb clouds and then tell the story of the re-birth of a new world? Watch the sci-fi classic Things to Come. William Cameron Menzies knew his imagery.

KimLuster at 6:49AM, May 6, 2017

Great stuff! These symbols have always been so powerful to me... So of course I gave Kimber Lee (from the Godstrain) a 'trampstamp' tattoo of an Oroborous!! :D

Ozoneocean at 5:53AM, May 6, 2017

Good point!

Tantz_Aerine at 5:06AM, May 6, 2017

The atom bomb looks like a flourishing tree? It's called a mushroom cloud, not an apple tree :P // Oz: Well, CC believes she's serving the greater good despite being a cutthroat b*tch ;) I would say Pinky TA falls more in the color-code motif than the visual ones.

Ozoneocean at 4:03AM, May 6, 2017

Pinky TA has a griffin symbol, a heart symbol, and stylised "TA" in a blue roundel. I think those are the main ones. I'm not sure if any fit the Deluge/creation mould... Hmm, ok, possibly the Griffin is "deluge": that's mainly on war machines only. And the heart is "creation", mainly because Cc wears it on her crotch so hat's an obvious connection. But since Cc is a force for bad, she represents a twisted type of creation.

Ozoneocean at 3:59AM, May 6, 2017

The eye in the CBS symbol is used to symbolise awareness and intelligence. The same with the eye (and pyramid) on American currency.

MOrgan at 2:46AM, May 6, 2017

So the CBS eye is a symbol of Deluge and the atomic bombs mushroom cloud, which looks like a flourishing tree, is a symbol of Creation? ;-)