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They would loot and pillage ships on the high seas, they drank rum and sang notorious drinking songs, they had patches on their eyes and peg legs and knew where treasure was buried. Thats right, I'm talking about Pirates. However what most people don't know about Pirates is that the Jolly Roger flag is actually part of the Masonic ritual of Hiram Abiff.

During this ritual the candidate would go through a symbolic death and be symbolically resurrected. When he turns around he sees on a black cloth, the symbol of the skull and crossbones. This was known by Masons and such groups for a long time but it was only recently that such knowledge came to be more in the public eye. With movies like "The Da Vinci Code" it seems that interest in esoterica has become quite popular in recent years. In book shops there are books all claiming to have cracked certain codes and each have their own conclusions as to what it all might mean in the end. Their concepts are mostly creative, using the facts they have at their disposal to show that whichever concept they have in their minds is correct and if they make a prediction it would be based upon those facts or near facts that they have gathered. A lot of information they have is in actually coincidental or circumstantial, though it can be ascertained what these "code breakers" are trying !

to do.

Recently I became rather interested in the history behind the skull and crossbones and what it means. I'm quite fond of geometry and esoteric symbolism and so I found it rather fascinating. As I pondered its significance I would often find myself singing "Dem dry bones", quite appropriate as it was to do with a skull and bones, however I wondered about the song. You see, also recently I did a lot of research on Jupiter symbolism and came across what was known as a Jupiter Talisman owned by the Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith. I was able to see that the Jupiter Talisman had a symbol on it that depicted Jupiter and its four moons as a large circle and a cross connecting the four moons. The very next picture I looked at was the skull and crossbones and I was interested to see that both symbols are almost identical. The skull and crossbones is a bit more elaborate, I grant you, and on first sight no one would make the connection, however the geometry for both symbols!
is exactly the same, and it led me to wonder if the skull and crossbones therefore, could be another symbol depicting Jupiter. When I found this

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