List of Occult symbols

The following is a list of symbols associated with the occult. This list shares a number of entries with the list of alchemical symbols.

List

Name	Origins	Notes
Ankh	Ancient Egypt	Ancient Egyptian symbol for eternal life; now also associated with Kemetism and neo-paganism.
Arrow (Belomancy)	Ancient divination.	----
Black Sun	Renaissance Germany; later, neo-Nazi occultism.	----
Circled dot	Ancient symbol representing the Sun and various sun gods.	See also: evil eye and alchemical symbol., Dave Talbott says the symbol is Mars,Venus,and Saturn. Saturn was called the sun in ancient times. Mars was thought to be between the sun and Earth.
Chaos (Symbol of Chaos)	Michael Moorcock, Aleister Crowley and chaos magic.	----
Evil eye	Hellenic talisman.	----
Eye of Providence (or the all-seeing eye of God)	Cao Dai.	See tetragrammaton and yhwh.
Hexagram	Mandala and Judaism.	----
Magic circle	European witchcraft.	----
Nazar	Middle Eastern talisman to ward off the evil eye.	----
Pentacle	European witchcraft.	Example of inverted pentacle. See also: Pentagram.
Rosy Cross	Rosicrucianism / Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.	----
Sriramachakra	Tamil mysticism.	----
Sigil	Renaissance magic.	Image provided depicts a modern personal sigil.
Sigillum Dei (Seal of God)	Europe, late Middle Ages.	----
Sulphur	Alchemy; Satanism.	The alchemical symbol for sulphur, associated with the fire and brimstone of Hell. Can also be known as a 'Leviathan Cross'.
Sun cross	Iron age religions and later gnosticism and neo-paganism.	----
Unicursal hexagram (Thelema)	Aleister Crowley's Thelema.	----
Valknut	Norse mythology.	----
Kolovrat	Slavic neo-paganism	Popularized in 1990s.
Ouroboros	Ancient Egypt	----

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