Symbol 30:16

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This sign structure is found on
Nordic Bronze Age altars and in prehistoric Egypt.
is also a heraldic sign known as a mirror. As a Bronze Age ideogram it was
most probably a sun symbol.
Compare with the Mayan cross,
, and
with
,
found in ancient Troy and made up of five sun signs and an
arrow cross.
In eighteenth-century chemistry this sign was used for
saccharum or
sugar.
The same structure, but with a filled inner circle,
, is a modern German map sign for radio
beacon (the sign
is a synonym).
In August 12 1989 this structure was a crop circle in southern England.



