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Symbols of Power at Sutton Hoo There were two important and very unusual objects, leaning up against the wall at the head of the burial chamber in the ship burial at Sutton Hoo. www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/ In the modern world advertising, icons, branding, and persuasive imagery constantly besiege us. Often this imagery is an attempt to solicit. All our lives people tell us to buy certain commodities, join certain religions, and follow certain trends. Symbols with power represent these things and though they are antagonistic, we accept them. www.slowart.com/ A power symbol is a symbol indicating that a control activates or deactivates a particular device. It incorporates line and circle figures, with the arrangement informed by the function of the control. en.wikipedia.org/ Symbols of power, designed by Herbert F. Vetter. Includes Fire-Water-Earth-Air, God is Energy and 'Let the Earth Live!', which became the logo for the Cambridge Forum. www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/ |