Any context? First thing that comes to mind is church
Where did you find this? A little bit of context could help. These kind of easy-to-carve symbols were used as “house marks” (Finnish “puumerkki” and Swedish “bomärke”), to mark household’s properties and used also in similar way to today’s signatures.
Map symbol for a church or a shrine?
A woodmark?
A diode? 😉
Bill Cipher
cross hiding behind a triangle
It lyckliga cross with a triangle.
Diode
It reminds me of map marker church symbol.
I should add not Finnish or Swedish but spent 20 plus years reading maps around the world while in the military.
A bathroom for headless chicks.
Its a coat hanger.
”Karen” in iron age writing
Google lense says the symbol of phosphorus, one of the symbols of alchemy.
Doubtful that’s correct. 🙂
Posted a question with no context and then dipped
That person is *very* precariously perched on their teeter-totter (seesaw?). That’s good balance!
It means a headless one-legged woman
You never should have seen this.. perkele, we are coming for you.
The White Lodge. Finnish version.
“Sound of music” bronze age versiom
It could be an artistic sign for women’s toilet.
It’s very ancient called “The gift of the Kakkapylly”
It is a “bomärke” people used to sign documents and stuff with those before people could write
Church of The holy Diode. Used on maps and schematics.
I used myheritage and found this picture, I had a finnish relative who was a priest so it probably has something to do with the church.
It’s a religious coat hanger.
It means “Church Lady”.
What in the name of Harry Potter is this symbol
Tiekirkko
probably a woodmark
It kinda looks like the alchemical symbol of phosphorus, although not quite.
This looks like a traditional puumerkki, which are family name signatures made in a way which was easy to carve into wood.
Seeing the design it could be an alternative for a family member that ended up becoming a priest, or by some curiosity it could also be one for the local church. Most of the time there were specific copies for each member of the family that slightly deviated from the one held by the family head, but seeing as they have a cross here it is reasonable to assume that has significance here.
This could be a method for the local priest to sort of approach the common man. They may be well educated and capable of writing, but to use something like this as a signature would be understandable if it were done to allow the others to feel closer to the church. Also if it is a simple variation on the puumerkki held by their family it could also be thought of as a way of paying respects to where you came from, given these are mostly used by the commoners, whereas priests were usually sons of the nobles and the bourgeoisie.
Just my 2¢. Any idea where the guy was from? I could see about researching the locations history for similar puumerkkis or even this one directly.
Bill Cipher with a big dick
A boner going down. Hard to translate. Rip tent up.
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Any context? First thing that comes to mind is church
Where did you find this? A little bit of context could help. These kind of easy-to-carve symbols were used as “house marks” (Finnish “puumerkki” and Swedish “bomärke”), to mark household’s properties and used also in similar way to today’s signatures.
Map symbol for a church or a shrine?
A woodmark?
A diode? 😉
Bill Cipher
cross hiding behind a triangle
It lyckliga cross with a triangle.
Diode
It reminds me of map marker church symbol.
I should add not Finnish or Swedish but spent 20 plus years reading maps around the world while in the military.
A bathroom for headless chicks.
Its a coat hanger.
”Karen” in iron age writing
Google lense says the symbol of phosphorus, one of the symbols of alchemy.
Doubtful that’s correct. 🙂
Posted a question with no context and then dipped
That person is *very* precariously perched on their teeter-totter (seesaw?). That’s good balance!
It means a headless one-legged woman
You never should have seen this.. perkele, we are coming for you.
The White Lodge. Finnish version.
“Sound of music” bronze age versiom
It could be an artistic sign for women’s toilet.
It’s very ancient called “The gift of the Kakkapylly”
It is a “bomärke” people used to sign documents and stuff with those before people could write
Church of The holy Diode. Used on maps and schematics.
I used myheritage and found this picture, I had a finnish relative who was a priest so it probably has something to do with the church.
It’s a religious coat hanger.
It means “Church Lady”.
What in the name of Harry Potter is this symbol
Tiekirkko
probably a woodmark
It kinda looks like the alchemical symbol of phosphorus, although not quite.
This looks like a traditional puumerkki, which are family name signatures made in a way which was easy to carve into wood.
Seeing the design it could be an alternative for a family member that ended up becoming a priest, or by some curiosity it could also be one for the local church. Most of the time there were specific copies for each member of the family that slightly deviated from the one held by the family head, but seeing as they have a cross here it is reasonable to assume that has significance here.
This could be a method for the local priest to sort of approach the common man. They may be well educated and capable of writing, but to use something like this as a signature would be understandable if it were done to allow the others to feel closer to the church. Also if it is a simple variation on the puumerkki held by their family it could also be thought of as a way of paying respects to where you came from, given these are mostly used by the commoners, whereas priests were usually sons of the nobles and the bourgeoisie.
Just my 2¢. Any idea where the guy was from? I could see about researching the locations history for similar puumerkkis or even this one directly.
Bill Cipher with a big dick
A boner going down. Hard to translate. Rip tent up.