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The Pythagoreans are said to have made use of the sign  , whose vertical line represented life's path. The point where the vertical line converges with the two diagonal lines represented the choice between the good (the right stem) and the evil (the left stem).
Compare this with the sign  , used in some computer contexts to mean choose!
In Christian symbolism this sign is known as the ypsilon cross, the furca (Latin for fork), or the cross of the robbers, since the two robbers crucified on both sides of the cross of Christ were, according to some sources, nailed onto gallows of this shape. But as often  , below in this group, is called the cross of the robbers.
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