ARRGGHH ZOOMA AND JPJ's SYMBOL

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What the _ _ _ _?
Come on, I was beginning to give some of you credit for having at least a
miniscule amount of insight into this and you disappoint me.
The symbols were published via Led Zep's contract with Atlantic.
I would say that the copyright to the material that is copyrightable lies
with the members.
Each person is entitled to a third degree, but after that you have to relearn
your alphabet.
These symbols were not necessarily intended to signify the group Led
Zeppelin but according to the given accounts stood for each individual's
awareness of his musical/magickal self.
So for any one of them to use their symbols as they please is their
business, and certainly is not intended as a reflection or allusion to Led
Zeppelin per se.
And after all it doesn't really matter.
JPJ's symbol is not Led Zeppelin it's his identity - as chosen from Rudoph
Koch's popular symbols book,
just as Zoso is Jimmy's
and the feather in the circle is Robert's.

British law would have specifically prohibited them from bearing shields or
coats of arms which were bogus,
but there's nothing in those laws to prohibit them from devising other
symbols which in essence replace the function of an heraldic shield.

Robert's symbol most suspiciously resembles an eagle feather in a circlet.
This particular device may be worn by those with a general allegiance to
the Scottish clan system without fear of legal reprise from
their Lord Lyon King of Arms.

The individual members of Led Zeppelin choosing and or devising their own
symbols gave them the chance to essentially initiate their
own "achievements" without having to shell out a good seventeen hundred
pounds to either the Royal College of Arms in London or The Lord Lyon in
Scotland.
Not only that but they've managed to have those four symbols recognized
worldwide in a manner that has surpassed all but the most recognizable of
the most well known heraldic symbols of the last 800 years.
Those symbols were not intended to go to the wayside with the demise of Led
Zeppelin as a musical entity. What's this about art departments from
recording companies resurrecting old symbols. Not without the approval of
the principals involved I'd warrant. Hey Billy, this redundancy can get
nerve-wracking!

However, if one does not spell out the situation in numerous ways, often
those who would benefit the most from looking at circumstances from another
viewpoint besides their own never arrive at any modicum of new understanding.
As for the Zep boys they were obviously very -
Cheeky, cheeky, cheeky!
Hats off, And all hail the Led Zeppelin gentlemen whose tweed is more wry
than that of their most august neighbors.
There are a scant few here on this side of the big pond who ever got the joke.
The feather of Maat, Mu and the nations of the tribes of America indeed!
What was it Robert said?
"It's a symbol of the truth... It means no bull _ _ _ _!"
And as far as Jimmy's symbol.
Robert said something to the effect that,
"He told me what it meant once, but I've forgotten..."(who can find the
exact quote?)
Tee!Hee!
Sincerely,
The Pink Lady