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http://www.symbols.com/index/wordindex-z.html A vast list of all manner of Symbols!Look there for Aztec symbols to Zodiac, and everything in between! |
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Pyramids, Mummies and More! Homework on the Ancient Egyptians due YESTERDAY? http://www.neferchichi.com/
has
links to many internet sites with information about Ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics
and suchlike.
Need Even More Information on Ancient Egypt?
MUMMIES!
Amaze your friends! Preturb your parents! Enchant your teacher! Get a Passing Grade! Write your name in Hieroglyphics!
More Hieroglyphics:
The Rosetta Stone :
More on Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, Ancient Greece,
Mythology and History:
LittleHorus
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| Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy http://www.formosa-kingdom.com/chinese
http://www.cmoondesigns.com/chinese.htmland http://www.kanjitattoos.com have lists of Chinese/Japanese characters . If it's not here .... get friendly with the staff at your local Chinese restraunt, or Asian market, and perhaps someone there can help you. Chinese and Japanese translating dictionaries are also at most large bookstores and libraries. If you want Chinese and Japanese patterns and dragons, look in back issues of "Arts of Asia" magazine, and large coffee-table books of Oriental Art, or go to a museum and see an exhibit of Asian art! Before visiting the linked site that claims to translate western names into Chinese (no telling WHAT they come out meaning) please read this article: http://www.maxent.org/ch/chinese_tattoos.html Still
need your NAME in Chinese? http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
Just remember, Chinese symbols do not represent sounds, so there is not telling what your "name" might mean, if anything at all, to a native speaker. And you couldn't honestly tell someone, "this is my name in Chinese" as it isn't that at all! http://www.goodorient.com/goodorient/wallpapernames.html Also see this for a listing of various names "translated": http://zhongwen.com/qianming.htm Find your Chinese Birth Animal? (Most Auspicious! Like a Zodiac sign.) Online Chinese/Japanese dictionary of symbols: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/7951/main.html More Chinese Calligraphy at http://www.takase.com/TattooDesign/TattooDesign.htm
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Native
American Tribal Patterns
adapted for Henna Artists
with meanings and sources
Patterns to Avert the Evil Eye!
Moroccan Khamsa patterns and their meanings in
Id
al-Adha
African
Symbols: Adinkra Patterns
http://www.ghana.com/republic/adinkra/
Ashanti Adinkra Patterns from Ghana
are beautiful, meaningful and full of wisdom!
Posters of these symbols , with Kente and
Goldweight patterns, are available from Sankofa Edu-Cultural Publications,
OANSA@aol.com
, phone 1-877-767-4430
Contemporary Tribal Patterns!
SPELLSTONE
Pattern
Book 1: Tribal
by Alex Morgan
fantastic tribal patterns with
or without magical symbolism!
Celtic Knotwork
Celtic Clip Art and Patterns
ready for you to use!
http://www.webomator.com/bws/data/freeart/celtic/celtic_interlace.html
http://www.davehall.force9.co.uk/goldcup/clipart/
Henna,
the Joyous Body Art: Pattern Book #1
a collection of over 600 henna patterns with meanings
and origins!
by Catherine Cartwright Jones
Gods and Goddesses
Assorted Deities:
http://www.sacredsource.com/
Hindu Deities:
http://www.hindugallery.com/
Yoruba Deities:
http://www.nando.net/prof/caribe/Dictionary.html
Arabic Calligraphy:
http://www.lexicorient.com/babel/arabic/index.htm
Other Alphabets: Hebrew, Arabic,
Greek, Russian, Sanskrit
http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/alphabet.htm
Remember! If you use letters from another language to spell
out your own name or initials ....
you may be writing something very rude or rediculous in THAT language!
| BOOKS
remember books? no hotlinks here ... you gotta go to a bookstore, online bookstore, or a library to get books... .... but they feel so CREAMY and SMOOTH when you touch them and they smell soooo nice! You can kiss and hug books and take them to bed with you! You Gotta Have BOOKS!!!!! Art books, histories, biographies, encyclopedias,
dictionaries, especially! ... they're so BIG and HARD !
why are you still messing around with your little mouse balls? READ A BOOK TODAY!
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TapDancing Lizard
publishes henna pattern, henna tradition and henna
history books!
The pattern books have hundreds of symbols with their
meanings and origins!
See: TapDancing
Lizard
http://reverndbunny.sphosting.com/books.html
"The Illustrated Book of Signs and
Symbols,
Thousands of Signs and Symbols
from Around the World"
by Miranda Bruce-Mitford, DK Publishing,
1996, paperback
Outstanding book of pictorial symbols, Dragons, Herbs,
Gods, Birds, Celtics, Asian, EVERYTHING!
English/Chinese Dictionary
http://www.ok88.com/go/svc/ecdict.html
to look up more Chinese Calligraphy!
Out of print? Look for "used books" online or go to
your library.
"Egyptian Hieroglyphics, How to
Read and Write Them"
Stephane Rossini, Dover Publications, 1989
Outstanding book with big clear pictures of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
and Words
Ancient Egyptian Designs For Artists
and Craftspeople
Eva Wilson, Dover Publications, 1986
"Japanese Design Motifs: 4,2620
Illustrations of Japanese Crests"
Compiled by the Matsuya Piece-Goods Store,
Translated by Fumie Adachi, Dover Publications, 1972
BRILLIANT collection of Japanese Patterns!!!
"The Secret Language of the Soul,
A Visual Guide to the Spritual World"
Jane Hope, Chronicle Books , 1997 Symbols and their Meanings
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