• Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Fun fact! (Op may already know) but it’s called a lemniscate! I learned this while doing a deep dive on the symbology of the rider waite tarot deck. Fascinating stuff it’s basically a super complicated greco-roman-judeo-christian crossover fanfiction with touches of Egyptian mythology and some stuff from the near east, especially the parts that influenced western alchemy (the academic term is syncretism).