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For those peoples living near the equator this pictorial sign represents the new or waning moon together with a planet. Note that a small circular sign has been a sign for star, whether planet star or fixed star, with both prehistoric peoples and the old Chinese. Most probably the small circle in this case represents Venus as the Morning or Evening star. See  in Group 29 for further explanations.
 was common in the Phoenician cultural sphere about 2,000 years ago. Today it appears, for instance, on the walls of some buildings in Tibet. Similar in structure is  , the fermata, a signal to the player to hold on to a tone or a pause at his own discretion, in musical notation.
Similar is also the US hobo sign  , and  in  , the Indian graph for the greeting of peace, aum, where represents the state of transcendental consciousness. Note that appears in the Mayans' hieroglyphic system, and there probably meaning the new or waning moon together with Venus.
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