ah, MtheGM.. symbols, like folk songs, get co-opted and transmogrified(To resort to technical terms).

Origins are important, and one of the blessings of Mudcat is that so many are here who DO know about various origins. I have been involved in several complex debates about various song origins, and learned much.

Because the symbol was so popular & easy to make, it has become, like it or not, part of the UNICODE set of symbols with 'peace symbol' as its name.

I am glad to know more of the origins, but you can't put the genie back into the bottle..(or some other muddled metaphor)

(I've been trying to make it by typing alt+262E, but I may have the wrong font enabled. .....Oh, so I see..."You need a font that supports this character to even have a hope of seeing it correctly in the browser.")