With my back out, I watched TV all day yesterday with a heating pad. I landed upon Dan Brown's The Lost Symbols series on Peacock TV. (Looks like any season later will be canceled).
When I watch these "puzzle" shows, I get so intrigued by all the little details. Like National Treasure and the references to Freemasons and historical artifacts, I get all wrapped up in it.
"A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different concepts and experiences. All communication (and data processing) is achieved through the use of symbols.
Symbols take the form of words, sounds, gestures, ideas, or visual images and are used to convey other ideas and beliefs. For example, a red octagon is a common symbol for "STOP"; on maps, blue lines often represent rivers; and a red rose often symbolizes love and compassion. Numerals are symbols for numbers; letters of an alphabet may be symbols for certain phonemes; and personal names are symbols representing individuals. The variable 'x', in a mathematical equation, may symbolize the position of a particle in space."
Symbols, I mean, they are on everything, everywhere. Roman letterforms, logos, alphabet, livestock brands, Egyptian hieroglyphic, cave paintings. They explain history to us in pictogram form, give us directions, it is fascinating! Just something to think about and roll around in my big, empty brain.
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