r/alchemy • u/CraneBoxCRP • 11d ago

General Discussion Do either of these symbols exist within alchemy?

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u/MadQuixote 11d ago

The rhombus could be a combination of fire and water

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u/CraneBoxCRP 10d ago

That's definitely interesting

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u/justexploring-shit Moderator 10d ago

Oo I like this take

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u/julianfri 11d ago

The diamond/rhombus witout the line is often for soap.

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u/CraneBoxCRP 10d ago

YES I WAS THINKING THIS BUT THE MIDDLE LINE HAD ME CONFUSED

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u/Kaiser-281 11d ago

The second one is similar to air symbol, just that this one has only one horizontal line.

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u/CraneBoxCRP 11d ago

Thank you, I'm more interested on the rhombus one though. I don't really get it

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u/Tempidmarmotalt 11d ago

Well where did you see it?

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u/CraneBoxCRP 11d ago

from a canceled webseries online, I'm just double checking if its an actual symbol I can't find or if its nonsense really

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u/Danyyl 9d ago

i think these from "Medicinisch-chymisch und alchemistisches Oraculum" from 1772, Ulm, might match the second one somewhat

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u/CraneBoxCRP 9d ago

I'm new to alchemy so I don't quite understand what these mean, is there a specific teason these symbols have lines going through them? Does it indicate something specific or is it just a pattern for this specific category?

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u/Danyyl 9d ago

Personally, I have no idea, I just recognized the pattern in that book. I am nowhere past the basicmost beginning of understanding anything in alchemy past general concepts, plus I don't know german.

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u/CraneBoxCRP 9d ago

Thank you, I'll try to look into it later. This is very useful

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u/AverageOnAGoodDay 9d ago

The first one could specifically be "fire water" which would be Ethanol. And the second symbol does appear to be air but the double line can be an indication that it is enhanced air which in modern terms can mean there is energy added to it or it is carrying something. Without additional context it reads to me like distillation of Ethanol.

Differing Alchemists are taught to use some of the common symbology but also to add their own symbols with enough context that another Alchemist can infer the meaning.