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  2. Endless knot - Wikipedia

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    The endless knot or eternal knot is a symbolic knot and one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols. It is an important symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. It is an important cultural marker in places significantly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism such as Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Kalmykia, and Buryatia. It is also found in Celtic, Kazakh and Chinese ...

  3. Celtic knot - Wikipedia

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    Celtic knots (Irish: snaidhm Cheilteach, Welsh: cwlwm Celtaidd, Cornish: kolm Keltek, Scottish Gaelic: snaidhm Ceilteach) are a variety of knots and stylized graphical representations of knots used for decoration, used extensively in the Celtic style of Insular art.

  4. List of controversial album art - Wikipedia

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    The Celtic knot on the cover to Discipline by King Crimson was changed to the above design on later releases due to copyright infringement. The Beautiful South – Miaow (1994) The album was originally set to feature a photo of rows of dogs seated in a music hall with a gramophone on the stage.

  5. List of lucky symbols - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism: Endless knot, Lotus flower, Dhvaja, Dharmachakra, Bumpa, Golden Fish, Parasol, Conch; additional symbols for Hinduism and Jainism [citation needed] Bamboo: Chinese [9] Barnstar: United States [10] [11] Beemans gum: United States Popular among early aviators, including Chuck Yeager, to provide good luck during flights [12] [13] Chimney ...

  6. File:Celtic-knot-basic.svg - Wikipedia

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    One very basic form of Celtic or pseudo-Celtic linear knotwork; alternative decorative form of Image:Celtic-knot-basic-alternate.svg. Date: 2006: Source: SVG version of Image:Celtic-knot-basic.png This image is converted from the following PostScript code:

  7. Celtic cross - Wikipedia

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    A version of the Celtic cross is used as a symbol by white supremacists. [8] It was used by Nazis in Norway in the 1930s and 1940s, and more recently it has been used by neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other white supremacist groups. In general, white supremacists use a version of the symbol with a square cross as opposed to the traditional elongated ...

  8. Sailor tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Drawings of tattoos, including initials, hearts, and an anchor, recorded in protection papers [5]: 529 There is a persistent myth that tattoos on European sailors originated with Captain James Cook's crew, who were tattooed in Tahiti in 1769, but Cook brought only the word tattoo to Europeans, not the practice itself.

  9. 74 knot - Wikipedia

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    However, the endless knot symbol has more complex forms not equivalent to 7 4, and both the endless knot and unicursal hexagram can appear in non-interlaced versions, in which case they are not knots at all.) The 7 4 knot is a Lissajous knot, representable for example by the parametric equation [2]