Sumerian god Marduk [1]

See also: Astro-mythology and holy water.

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Note: how consciousness is aimed at the higher kundalini area. (see also: Primal eye and Bioenergy)

Osiris pine cone staff. Egyptian Museum, Turino, Italy.

Note: the spiraling serpents (representing the Kundalini life force and DNA).

Thyrsus staff from Greek mythology [3]

See also: Primal eye: Greek

The Ancient greco God Dionysus, seen here carrying the pine cone staff as a symbol of fertility.

Bacchus, Roman-Greek God of drunkenness and revelry, with a pine cone staff.

Bronze hand of the Roman mystery cult of Sabazios/Dionysus (see also the Ancient Greece mystery schools: Dionysian Mysteries and the later Eleusinian Mysteries and Orphic Mysteries).

It dates from the late Roman Empire, when all forms of divination from scrying to astrology, flourished.

Note: the serpent/dragon/lizard head, the reverse awen handsign, the cow/bull above the altar, and something that resembles a human in a pupa.

Pigna ("pine-cone") refers to a famous bronze sculpture of roman origin, in the shape of a huge pine-cone. According to a popular mediaeval legend, it once stood on top of the Pantheon, as a lid for the round opening in the center of the building's vault. Instead, the sculpture is likely to have been used as a fountain in the Baths of Agrippa, Rome's earliest ones (late 1st century BC), which stood just behind the Pantheon's site. In the early Middle Ages the pine-cone was moved to the old St.Peter's basilica, and placed in the court before the church, to be used again as a fountain.

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Angkor Wat - a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia

To research: conifer species in this region (in history), or was this symbolism imported from other cultures? If both fail, its a strong case against the "pine cone" symbolism theory here.

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Scaled model of the complex.

The largest pinecone statue in the world - flanked by two peacocks - near the Vatican courtyard (Court of the Pine Cone) (larger image).

Note: that the pine cone is unopened and therefore immature and unenlightened!

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Note: the black sarcophagus in front of the pinecone statue.

Papal pine cone staff

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Roman Catholic pine cone candle holder.

Pinecones are common in Roman Catholic architectyre and sacred decorations.

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"The Fountain of the Pine-cone" (1927)

This fountain sits in front of San Marco church, one of Rome's oldest churches (4th century).

Pine cone statue in front of one of the the oldest churches in Bristol, UK (video) (Todo: church name?)

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Inlay of Hitler's desk depicting two crossed staffs each with a pine cone on the top.

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Nazi era symbolism: Flag pole top in the shape of pine cone, and eagle chest with a pine cone pattern (outline and hatching).

A crest showing a pine tree branch with pine cones. On a gate outside a masonic lodge in central London.

Obelisk with a pine cone on top. Located in London on Lambeth bridge, Lambeth road.

Supposedly (needs confirmation) close to the MI5 and MI6 secret service buildings.

Massachusetts State House dome, which is topped by a pine cone.

Note: the golden dome sun symbolism.

Completed in 2004

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Notice the cross-thatch pattern consistent with that of an unopened pine cone.

"Ancient Egyptian funerary stele of a man named Ba (seated, sniffing a sacred lotus while receiving libations). Ba's son Mes and wife Iny are also seated. The identity of the libation bearer is unspecified. New Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII, c. 1550-1292 BC." [5]

Nefertem (or: Nefertum, Nefer-Tem, Nefer-Temu) [6]

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See also: Orgy

Priory of Sion emblem

The Priory of Sion ("priory of the sun") is a secret society created around the Merovingian dynasty whose ancestors (it is claimed) can be traced back to the royals of Sumer, Troy and the Greeks.

Note: the infinity symbol.

1784 coin commissioned by the Roman Catholic king Louis XVI of France, Kingdom of France.

Buckingham Palace

Saint Louis University

Note: this is a private university founded in 1818 by the Jesuits.

See also the "The Caduceus Project" sculpture.

Scouting World Crest (a worlwide youth outdoor-training movement)

The Boy Scouts of America emblem

Note: the two inverted pentagrams and the Eagle.

Nazi Boy Scout medal

This flag was first used in 1907 by the Order of New Templars, a secret society in Austria founded by Lanz von Liebenfels.

This order was the forerunner to the ideals of the Nazi party.

The Nazi Totenkop belt buckle worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger, displaying two Fleur-de-lis.
See also: Death

The fleur-de-lis is the logo of the NFL's New Orleans Saints football team.

The fleur-de-lis in the flag of Quebec.

UPC Broadband

Tudor rose

"The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union Rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the Tudor dynasty." [9]

"The Tudor Rose is a secret symbol of the Elite Most Noble Order of the Garter. To understand the symbol you have to research into the Mystic degrees of Freemasonry 18th degree and upwards. The symbol is Rosicrucian (Rosy Cross) and has a two fold meaning. The two rose, (one white, one red) represent the the two orders, Inner and Outer. The white rose is a 5 pointed star, and represents the S.S (Silver Star) outer order, and he red rose (upside down 5 pointed star) represents the Inner order of the Knights Companions of the Order of the Garter, the Knights of Rhodes and Malta. The Companions of 300 Knights (the Rosicrucians) of the Order of the Round Table. They represent the York rite of Freemasonry, and are the successors of the Knight Templar." [10]

The "Christian" Luthers Rose

See also: the Reformation dialectic linked to the Order Rosae Crucis.

Inverted pentagram in the Luther rose [11]

Rose Cross

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Round Table (club) (1927)

Note: the sun symbolism and black-white checkerboard pattern

See also: Miseducation

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Note: the bull and 5-pointed star.

Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.)

Note: the pyramid and all-seeing eye and the dove.

An inverted 5-pedaled rose appears in the center of this unicursal hexagram used by Aleister Crowley.

"The Acacia Fraternity is not the oldest, or largest, or most famous college fraternity, but its origin is distinctive and its record distinguished. With nearly 46,000 initiates since its founding in 1904 and with chapters spread across the United States and Canada, the Acacia Fraternity stands out among its peer collegiate Greek-letter fraternities as being the only college fraternity that uses a Greek word as its name in place of a series of Greek letters and was founded solely by members of the Masonic Fraternity." [12]

Franklin Chapter of Acacia Fraternity