If one were to read today's newspaper, the Forums section, he/she might notice the small warning issued to a certain wannabe-rocker-idol runner-up, Sylvester Sim. Since my scanner's not installed, I can't scan the article, so a rough sum-up of the letter would have to do. The letter states that Sim often does the "calf sign" to give off the impression of a rocker, since his voice obviously is too lacking(eh, well, the letter doesn't say it so harshly as I did, but its true). Many modern Pagans use it as a symbol the Horned God that adherents might use to identify each other; in this context it is referred to as the Sign of the Horned God. Its counterpart is the fig sign above. Edit: 5 edits in a row =/. This is why I never type without my glasses.
Anyway, after a fruitless consultation the Holy Grail that is Google, I suddenly remembered the "calf sign" are actually the "horns", so I decided to search on that, and thus got this:
Hmm, how amusing! Well, that's what you get when you have some wanna-be singer being what he cannot be.
To Chaotes practicing Lovecraftian magick, it is called the Sign of Voor or the Voorish Sign.
Some say that it is meant to ward off – or to bestow – the evil eye. It is also a representation of the Devil by some Satanists. The gesture's origin is believed to be an imitation of the shape of a goats head, which has many associations with the concept of Satan in Christianity Satan's Goat
It has a variety of other meanings as well, depending on culture and area. In some places, it is a sexual insult, charging a man with being a victim of cuckoldry. Perhaps because of its occult significance, it is used as a salute by fans of heavy metal music. If one reverses the extended fingers, one gets the "inverted heavy metal salute" which can be given as a reply to a heavy metal salute, and combined together into a "heavy metal lock", intertwining the two hands thus presented. In addition, when this gesture used with the thumb extended and is positioned roughly horizontally, it is an imitation of Spider-Man's typical finger positioning when he fires one of his webshooters.
Quote from: http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Gesture#Horns.2A
Oh and today's Friday the 13th. How apt to have such a letter published today, eh! And yes, I seem to be in a slightly-more delirious and insane state of mind today.
Now listening to: "Moments" Ayumi Hamasaki
