Is This An Occult Symbol?

[dreeness .]

From:

http://www.blueoystercult.com/Interact/FAQ/FAx17b.html


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What does the BOC logo mean?

The BOC logo was created by Bill Gawlik, the artist who created the band's first and second album covers. It is a stylization of the astronomical symbol for the planet Saturn. In the process of creating the album cover, Gawlick used a washer to separate the symbol into its 5 parts hook, bars and dot.

When the band was shown the artwork for the album cover, they instantly decided that it would be the perfect band logo, and that it is.
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[dr wu]

Just a side note...the BOC symbol is on all of their albums....sometimes 'hidden'.

 

[AgProv]

Just a side note...the BOC symbol is on all of their albums....sometimes 'hidden'.

took a long time to find it on Spectres - but it's there. fortean side note: American band. You'd expect the spelling of the title of their fifth studio LP to be Specters. But they use British English. Why?

 

[EnolaGaia]

took a long time to find it on Spectres - but it's there. fortean side note: American band. You'd expect the spelling of the title of their fifth studio LP to be Specters. But they use British English. Why?

Either spelling is acceptable in American English.

 

[maximus otter]

Are there any landowners who host shooting parties for rich toffs in your neck of the woods...

You’ll find that men and women of all classes and backgrounds enjoy shooting. It’s an extremely diverse and democratic sport.

Could be a marker to indicate a shooting point, although in my experience they're usually bespoke plastic signs (and are normally placed illegally close to footpaths - grrr, don't get me started! ).

You’ll doubtless be referring to the first part of s.161 of the Highways Act 1980, the bit everyone remembers about “it being an offence to discharge a firearm within 50 feet of the centre of a highway”. The pivotal part is the second part, the bit that no-one remembers: “...and in consequence a user of the highway is injured, interrupted or endangered...”

It’s not an offence simply to discharge a firearm near a path or road.

maximus otter

 

[Dr_Baltar]

As for the Police and occultism... Sting does publicly admit to a great interst in tantric yoga, implying an unorthodox and inquiring mind. Go to this chart single and ask why, in what seems to be a nice pleasant fatherly little ditty concerning a man's relationship with his tiny daughter, he breaks into that chant towards the end. Suggesting that the She, whose every little thing she does is Magic, is a different She working at a different level. Still there in Sting's lttle girl - but not just present in his infant daughter. Venerandum, indeed.

And the same chant is here too, in Regatta de Blanc. I have a suspicion he knew exactly what he was doing here.....

Couple of things here. Firstly, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic is not about a father/daughter relationship (as the lyrics clearly indicate). It was written about six years before he even had his first daughter. It's a love song. As for the chanting (which is actually different in those two songs), Sting's influences at this time was jazz-style scat singing. Both songs were written mid-late 70s. Sting didn't have any interest in yoga until the late 80s/early90s.