Our friend Jennifer Emick is no longer affiliated with About.com. Her exquisite collection of symbols is now hosted at SymbolDictionary.net.Subtitled "Religious Symbols: A Visual Glossary," you'll find page after page of religious and spiritual symbols and icons, along with their histories.
Here you'll find Asian, Celtic, Eastern, Egyptian, Norse and Wiccan symbols, along with astrological and alchemical symbols and designs, plus a whole lot more. Parts of Jennifer's collection was seen in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code, in an early scene showing Prof. Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks, addressing students. The symbols flashed by on a screen behind him.
Surf on over to Jennifer's new site, and spend a while browsing through this astounding display of the world's symbolic history.
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