Alchemical Glyphs

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http://www.crystalinks.com/dee.html

"Dee's glyph, whose meaning he explicated in Monas Hieroglyphica
In 1564, Dee wrote the Hermetic work Monas Hieroglyphica ("The Hieroglyphic Monad"), an exhaustive Cabalistic interpretation of a glyph of his own design, meant to express the mystical unity of all creation. This work was highly valued by many of Dee's contemporaries, but the loss of the secret oral tradition of Dee's milieu makes the work difficult to interpret today."

From:  http://www.prince.org/faq/7_General_Prince_FAQ

"On June 7th, 1993 (his 35th birthday), Prince announced that he would change his name to an unpronounceable symbol. The glyph incorporates the male and female signs along with the alchemy symbol for soapstone. 

The usual ASCII representation of the symbol is: 

O ( + > 

That's a capital "o," open parenthesis, plus sign, and greater-than sign."

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/4/45/MutedPosthorn.png

http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tree/Persons/bauer/even_newer/mp.html