I came across this symbol on a flat gravestone in Inchmahome Priory.
The way the moss had grown on the stone emphasising the symbol itself was what caught my eye.
At first glance I thought it was the symbol for the planet Mercury – but in fact, that’s a bit different.
With a bit of searching around I came across one of the alchemical symbols for spirit and that looks much more like this (the difference being that the only spirit symbols I’ve found have the cross bar through the shaft rather than at the end of it as it is in this one)
What do you think?
Is this the symbol for spirit? Or something else?
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