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Symbol of Chaos
 
Variant of Symbol of Chaos
The Symbol of Chaos originates from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories. In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. In contrast, the symbol of Law is a single upright arrow. It is also called the Arms of Chaos, the Arrows of Chaos, the Chaos Star or the Symbol of Eight.
Moorcock conceived this symbol while writing the first Elric of Melniboné stories in the early 1960s. It was subsequently adopted into the pop-cultural mainstream, turning up in such diverse places as role-playing games and modern occult traditions.
Moorcock says [1] —
The origin of the Chaos Symbol was me doodling sitting at the kitchen table and wondering what to tell Jim Cawthornthe arms of Chaos looked like. I drew a straightforward geographicalquadrant (which often has arrows, too!) – N, S, E, W – and then addedanother four directions and that was that – eight arrows representingall possibilities, one arrow representing the single, certain road ofLaw. I have since been told to my face that it is an "ancient symbol ofChaos" and if it is then it confirms a lot of theories about the race mind. … As far as I know the symbol, drawn by Jim Cawthorn, first appeared on an Elric cover of Science Fantasy in 1962, then later appeared in his first comic version of Stormbringer done by Savoy [ISBN 0-7045-0226-7].
An even-more-chaotic asymmetrical representation was by Walter Simonson in the Michael Moorcock's Multiverse comic (and subsequent graphic novel: ISBN 1-56389-516-1).
There are a number of traditional symbols that have the samegeometrical pattern as Moorcock's symbol of Chaos – for example: any ofvarious eight-pointed stars, such as this one from a Greek vase from the fifth century BCE, and the star of Ishtar/Venus; the Eastern Dharmacakra; and the Wheel of the Year – but none of these were symbols of chaos and their limbs are not arrows.
[edit] GamesThe symbol's first appearance in a commercial role-playing game (RPG) was in TSR's Dungeons & Dragons supplement, Deities & Demigods (1980; ISBN 0-935696-22-9)[2] which included the gods, monsters, and heroes from Moorcock's Elric books as one of 17 mythological and fictional "pantheons". (Copyright problems led to its omission from later editions.)
It then turned up quite naturally in Chaosium's Stormbringer RPG (one edition of which was published as Elric!) (1980-2003; ISBN 1-56882-152-2). The 1987 edition of Stormbringer was published jointly by Chaosium in the U.S. and Games Workshop (GW) in the UK.
Moorcock's eight-arrow symbol of Chaos was subsequently arrogated by GW and became a frequent graphic element in their own Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 games and the related miniature figures (e.g., these Knights of Chaos).
A slightly modified version can been seen as orcish tattoos on Chris Metzen's Warcraft art. Most noticeably on the character Grom Hellscream.
The Heretic and HeXenseries of video games feature the symmetrical version of the symbol onthe Chaos Device item, which teleports the player back to the beginningof the level.
The symbol was also the logo for Chessex, a games distributor now part of Diamond Comic Distributors.
[edit] MusicThe video/music group Psychic TV incorporates chaos symbols into itsalbum artwork for Allegory and Self(1988), with artwork from AustinOsman Spare who is considered to be the grandfather of chaos magick.See also T.O.P.Y http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_TV
The dark/folk UK band Fire + Ice has the chaos symbol in its logoplus ties to chaos magick. With members of Current 93, Death in Juneand Sol Invictus.
the UK noise/trance band Skullflower's 1990 album RUINS has a pairof hands tied at the wrist with the chaos symbol on one of the hands(as if in initiation).
The German death/thrash band Eternal Dirge incorporates the chaossymbol into its artwork and shirts with a CD-ROM multi-media tract ofan animated chaosphere on its 1996 album KHAOS MAGICK.
The Swedish progressive metal band Meshuggah has an album entitled Chaosphere.
The Norwegian black metal band 1349 used the symbol on their self-titled debut EP, which contains a song called "Chaos Within".
Another Norwegian band, Arcturus displayed the symbol at the beginning of the song "The Chaos Path" in their live DVD Shipwrecked in Oslo.
The Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura has an album entitled Chaos A.D. depicting the chaos symbol on the compact disc itself.
The American thrash metal band Testament features the chaos symbol on the cover of their album The Ritual. The first track of which is called "Signs of Chaos."
The Polish blackened death metal band Behemoth incorporates the chaos symbol in one of their logos.
The English experimental band Coil often uses the Cross of Chaos as a symbol on album covers and official releases.
The English death metal band Bolt Throweruses the symbol in much of their artwork, the bonus track on the album"Those Once Loyal" (2005) is called "A Symbol of Eight". This can belinked with musicians' taking inspiration from Warhammer tabletopwargames.
The Swedish black metal band Craft uses the chaos symbol on the album cover for "Fuck the Universe."
The Dutch black metal band Vazal uses the chaos symbol on the compact disk itself for the album "Age of Chaos."
The Cleveland, Ohio heavy metal band Chimaira uses a modified symbol of chaos with a C in the middle as a logo.
The Richmond, Virginia heavy metal band Gwar uses the chaos symbol in a lot of their artwork and a version of it is featured on the back of the album This Toilet Earth. The lead singer, Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) also has a version of the symbol tattooed on his back, and guitarist Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus)has one inlaid in the fretboard of his guitar. Most recently, thesymbol was modified into a thing some know as "Eighth Lock". Featuredon the back of the Beyond Hell album. It is also used in Phallus inWonderland as the wheel for GWAR's ship. The symbol is now a stage propoften planted in front of Jizmak's (Brad Roberts) drum set.
The French black metal act Ördög has a logo that is a Chaostar withthe letter Ö in the middle and the upward-pointing arrow lengthened sothat the logo resembles an inverted cross.
The American thrash metal band Project: Failing Flesh use the Chaos symbol on the cover of their album A Beautiful Sickness.
[edit] Modern traditionsThe eight-arrow symbol of Chaos is used in chaos magic, as is its 3D analog, the Chaos Sphere.
Alternative symbols of chaos (owing nothing to Moorcock) include the Sacred Chao of Discordianism and the The Five Fingered Hand of Eris.
[edit] PunkIn hitch-hiker, punk, and backpacker subculture, this symbol, knownas the Chaos Cross, frequently appears in tattoos. The right of thetattoo is generally passed from a current bearer of the symbol to aclose friend, as a sort of rite of passage. In this context, the ChaosCross is seen to symbolize freedom of thought and motion, strength, anddedication; also, it carries some mystical or occult connotations.Additionally, the Chaos Cross or Chaos Symbol continues to be used by avariety of (mostly) left wing and anarchist hardcore, grindcore, andcrust punk bands including Leftover Crack, Mouth Sewn Shut (featured on a back patch and in some band artwork [3]), Phobia(featured on the vinyl inlay of the "enslaved" 7")and others. Thoughthe symbol may be considered a rite of passage among some punkcurrents, it is also largely used as an overall recalcitrant andiconoclastic anarchist and nihilist punk symbol used to connotepersonal freedom, autonomy, and a sense of harmony that comes from"chaos" emphasizing the ideological tendencies of these cultures tocall for the destruction of the state, authoritarian power structures,and capitalist/spectacle/consumer culture/Western Civilization as awhole.
[edit] OtherIt is also used as the symbol of House Clovenshield, a mercenary group in the Society for Creative Anachronism that fights for whoever pays the most bacon and beer. |
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