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The logo is an image that represents
many concepts to many people, including:
1. The Four
Elemental Materials: Earth (mountaintops, valleys,
fault lines), Air (convection patterns of air currents),
Fire (a flame, a sun flare), and Water (a river, a waterfall,
a wave, a snow bank)
2. The Elements of Life:
Plants (a root system, a sprout, a young plant, a tree,
tree bark, a seed pod), Fungi (the mycelium, which is
the main body of fungi), and Animals (nerve endings,
capillaries, a hydroid, branches of coral, a wing, a
claw, the burrow of a creature, or even a giraffe!).
3. The Four Seasonal Elements:
Summer (a river flowing through a lush valley); Autumn
(a fallen and folded leaf); Winter (a barren tree or
branch, or snow banks); Spring (a plant sprout reaching
for the warm sun).
4. The Spiritual Elements:
When certain lines are modified, the logo becomes stylized
male and female anatomy, for God and Goddess. Some have
perceived the lines to represent the flowing form of
a dancing God or Goddess. Additionally, the three curves
merging to one are designed to represent the three elements
of the Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone. They also represent
the three elements of God: Father-Son-Spirit. The three
lines merging into one also symbolize the body-mind-spirit
composition of each individual. These same three lines
can represent the ego, id and superego of each personality,
or any trinary system of spirituality (such as Creator-Nurturer-Destroyer;
etc).
5. The Fork: a symbol
of procuring, of sustenance, and of civilization, while
also being a symbol of choices, decision-making, and
thus, contemplation. |
