Help me identify this weird (scary?) sign!
August 26, 2019 1:38 AM Subscribe
So my friend works in at a pizza place in Concord, California and the other day noticed this (see picture).
Anybody know what it means (if anything)?
The symbols were carved into the wood of a black-painted board and painted white, and the board was glued to the wall. My friend asked his boss, who didn't have any answers but took it down... and hung it in the restaurant's kitchen!
At first we were creeped out, but after researching possibilities online (tarot? Santeria? Masonic? Wicca?) and coming up with absolutely nothing that makes sense, we are now wondering if it's just that - nonsense. Or a practical joke, or a scavenger hunt clue or for some kind of game.
The symbols were carved into the wood of a black-painted board and painted white, and the board was glued to the wall. My friend asked his boss, who didn't have any answers but took it down... and hung it in the restaurant's kitchen!
At first we were creeped out, but after researching possibilities online (tarot? Santeria? Masonic? Wicca?) and coming up with absolutely nothing that makes sense, we are now wondering if it's just that - nonsense. Or a practical joke, or a scavenger hunt clue or for some kind of game.
The six fingered wizard spread his seed (the six droplets at the top) signified by the wisdom tooth on the left and the fire/heart on the right to the 10 (count them) four way 10 digited unwise masses.
You have the 6 and the 10, the tooth and the heart/fire/(almost but not quite OM) around the 6 fingered hand.
Nice art project. I don't think 6 and 10 are especially mystical except for the polydactylism bit.
I can't wait for somebody to know what this is.
posted by zengargoyle at 3:48 AM on August 26, 2019
You have the 6 and the 10, the tooth and the heart/fire/(almost but not quite OM) around the 6 fingered hand.
Nice art project. I don't think 6 and 10 are especially mystical except for the polydactylism bit.
I can't wait for somebody to know what this is.
posted by zengargoyle at 3:48 AM on August 26, 2019
I don't think it's malicious, but I do think they should put it back where it came from.
Either its absence is ruining someone's game or project, they've removed low-key advertising or spell component for some kind of occultist/energy worker who might take retribution (be that mundane or energetic), and/or there's now a source of questionable vibes in the pizzeria kitchen. None of those options draws in the light for the entity that took it.
It might just be some kind of fashion statement for The Youths, but I guarantee you your local witches are really stressed these days and I wouldn't take the chance of irritating them.
posted by Lyn Never at 7:51 AM on August 26, 2019 [7 favorites]
Either its absence is ruining someone's game or project, they've removed low-key advertising or spell component for some kind of occultist/energy worker who might take retribution (be that mundane or energetic), and/or there's now a source of questionable vibes in the pizzeria kitchen. None of those options draws in the light for the entity that took it.
It might just be some kind of fashion statement for The Youths, but I guarantee you your local witches are really stressed these days and I wouldn't take the chance of irritating them.
posted by Lyn Never at 7:51 AM on August 26, 2019 [7 favorites]
I agree with you about ruling out tarot and Wicca — if there's a connection to either of those, it's really obscure.
posted by nebulawindphone at 1:55 PM on August 26, 2019
posted by nebulawindphone at 1:55 PM on August 26, 2019
The thing that makes me think it's more art than ritual is the grab-bag execution. It looks like the hand is pretty straight and clean, the thing on the right looks like it was written with brush strokes, the things at the bottom are irregular and look like they were just scratched in, the drops at the top look like somebody whacked the wood with an instrument that makes roughly teardrop shaped marks. Somehow it doesn't quite give that ritualistic creation vibe.
Hopefully you haven't broken a seal and releases who knows what into the world. Or the kitchen is the new gateway to hell. I don't see any reason to just go with somebody witch or not gluing a plank of wood to facade.
posted by zengargoyle at 2:46 PM on August 26, 2019
Hopefully you haven't broken a seal and releases who knows what into the world. Or the kitchen is the new gateway to hell. I don't see any reason to just go with somebody witch or not gluing a plank of wood to facade.
posted by zengargoyle at 2:46 PM on August 26, 2019
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This it just first glance.
posted by zengargoyle at 3:34 AM on August 26, 2019