Almost, but not quite. Juliet's mark had straight rays, all the same size except for the top ray, which extended about an inch higher. Her mark actually looks a lot like an upside-down Rosicrucian cross, which has some other echoes and resonances with the narrative.
This mark looks pretty similar (and one thing they're always doing on Lost is getting things/scenes/people that look similar), but it's more regular and has the curved sides. It has some strange resonances as well.
They'll most likely come together, and we'll find out they're all from the same place later on. The one thing I know is that they're both related to mystical sects.
Someone mentioned it being a Greek symbol, but I can't seem to find it anywhere out there... It also reminds me of the astrological symbol for Pisces, but for that long, middle line. (This mutable zodiac sign's symbol is somehow also related to an out-of-date symbol that means "rain that does not hit the ground"). I have an overwhelming need to place my palm on it. Maybe it will open a new hatch.
It's that one -- either the horizontal or the vertical one, take your pick -- that messes up most of the symbolic interpretations. Every symbol I've found that looks like it (or Juliet's mark) has six rays, not eight. That's where I went with the upside-down Rosicrucian cross; it has eight rays, and was used for casting sigils. The sigil casted for the date the Rosicrucian Fellowship's groundbreaking in 1911 looks very similar to the blast door mapinterior. That makes me, at least, think that there's something to that interpretation. Some noted that it looked like an upside-down Scientology cross, but A.) I don't think Lost is going to touch Scientology (look at all they're doing with medication), and B.) The Scientology cross is derived from the Rosicrucian cross.
The tree symbol certainly looks similar to Juliet's mark, and it has the eight rays, but it doesn't have the extended ray and has the two curved rays. Thats' what drew me to the mark of Davide Lazzaretti. He got the mark from Saint Peter while remaining penitent in a grotto for 47 days, eating nothing but a piece a bread a day. The mark is remarkably similar to the mark on the tree (and has eight rays). After getting the mark, Lazzaretti started a mystic order in 19th C. Italy that called for a socialist utopia, and his Giurisdavidica Church used his mark as their symbol. The fact that the symbols echo each other and both have affiliations with mystic orders makes me think it's not a coincidence.
Oh -- the name of the grotto Lazzaretti stayed in was Sabina, the same name as the woman who died on the operating table.
Actually Sabina/Sabine comes from an Italian tribe, the Sabini, and Sabrina comes from a Celtic name for a river (originally Habren). Don't ask why I know this, because it's a long story; short version is I was laden with an odd family name (why I go by J.), which got me looking into rare, different or odd name histories.
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This mark looks pretty similar (and one thing they're always doing on Lost is getting things/scenes/people that look similar), but it's more regular and has the curved sides. It has some strange resonances as well.
They'll most likely come together, and we'll find out they're all from the same place later on. The one thing I know is that they're both related to mystical sects.
The tree symbol certainly looks similar to Juliet's mark, and it has the eight rays, but it doesn't have the extended ray and has the two curved rays. Thats' what drew me to the mark of Davide Lazzaretti. He got the mark from Saint Peter while remaining penitent in a grotto for 47 days, eating nothing but a piece a bread a day. The mark is remarkably similar to the mark on the tree (and has eight rays). After getting the mark, Lazzaretti started a mystic order in 19th C. Italy that called for a socialist utopia, and his Giurisdavidica Church used his mark as their symbol. The fact that the symbols echo each other and both have affiliations with mystic orders makes me think it's not a coincidence.
Oh -- the name of the grotto Lazzaretti stayed in was Sabina, the same name as the woman who died on the operating table.
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