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01/21/2005 Archived Entry: "Norwegians confused by Bush family's 'Satanic salute' during inauguration"

Posted by steve @ 04:30 PM EST [Link]

I THOUGHT HE WAS ONLY WORSE THAN HITLER: It seems that George W. Bush is not only Hitler, at least according to some protest signs, he's actually in league with Satan.

Yesterday Bush, as you can see in the picture to the right, gave the traditional "Hook 'em, 'Horns" salute Texans show to the University of Texas Longhorns football team who marched as part of the inaugural parade. In Norway, however, that sign is interpreted as a salute to Satan. I bet it confirmed everything that Norwegians think about Dubya!

The author of the story is a bit confused however. They say that the symbol is popular with heavy metal fans and bands from that region, which may be true but isn't the origin of the symbol. Popular history states that Ronnie James Dio, lead singer of Black Sabbath for part of the 1970s and 80s, actually came up with the signal.

According to one web site:

Ronnie apparently brought the raised index and little finger hand sign to metal world in 1980. It was quickly adopted by the metal bands in '80s and somewhat identified as "heavy metal sign".

However, it has much older meaning too. In the ancient Egypt, the sign was called the evil eye sign. It was used to put a spell on someone, to cast "an evil eye". Many of the pharaos buried in the pyramids had sculptures guarding them, those sculptures often showed the evil eye sign to curse the grave robbers and to guard the pharao.

The sign has also many other meanings, depending on the culture where it is shown. It is called for example The Horned Hand by some religious groups. Some satanists also use it in their rituals.

There you go...Texans are either Longhorns fans, metal fans or Satanists.