The Esoteric Icon Meme

[ysabetwordsmith]

I got this from bodhifox who evidently got it from silverstah. The idea is to post an icon which embodies some esoteric or obscure bit of knowledge, and see who knows what it is.

Comments

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

I can't play this game because I'm too cheap to have more than three icons. But at first glance this looks like some kind of heraldic escutcheon.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Looks like the pan from a bee hive to me, with honey dripping.

You're just taunting me with "escutcheon." Though now I seriously want someone to write a poem about a farmer boy who went to a just war with only the pan from his beehive for a shield, and when he was attacked he almost died but the bees came and defended him, and then he went on to become a hero and was given some kind of commendation and lands, and he took that on as his heraldic device to honor the bees.

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

That's not what it is, but I loved your idea for a poem, so I wrote "The Farmboy and the Bees" for you.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

You're getting warm.

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

I'm not a herald myself, but I don't recognize the darker area blazoned center-base. It doesn't look like a standard ordinary. It kind of looks like the crescent used for a second son's cadence mark, but just kind of.

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

You're getting warmer!

It is not a crescent. It is not a cadency mark. It is a kind of ordinary, but probably considered more of a variant on a standard one than actually standard.

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

I assume it's an unusual diminutive tenne on a field or but I don't know to whom it might belong.

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Very warm! Tenne it is, and a particular type of point.

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

Per fess Or and Tenne, but beyond that you got me.

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

That's getting cooler.

I'll post the answer tomorrow.

[morningdove3202.livejournal.com]

Well, it's yellow, which is the color I use for Earth/North...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Cold.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

This is mine!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Well, it looks like a religious icon. I vaguely remember your LJ name having to do with a saint or something.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Cues he Elvis Costello...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Veronica

Cute!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what yours is, but I play this game constantly. Have you ever noticed some of my icons?

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I have noticed that you have unusual, ever-changing icons. Cool...

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

They are almost always either tarot cards, or, based on a tarot card, and they contain secret messages about what is going on with me at any given time. If someone knew the tarot well enough, and cared enough to pay attention, they tell a story.

This is one of the reasons why I love LJ so much. I can tell about 7 different stories at once.

[ditenebre.livejournal.com]

Hmm. What came up for me was "sun shield". No esoteric or obscure bits of knowledge nor any other kinds of cleverness.

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Cold.