spiritual symbols

Faith's visual language

Spiritual symbols are images, objects, or marks that represent religious or metaphysical concepts—the cross in Christianity, the om in Hinduism, the yin-yang in Taoism.

They function as visual shorthand for beliefs about the sacred, the divine, or the transcendent.

Such symbols often appear in rituals, art, and personal adornment: She wore a hamsa as protection against the evil eye.

Related

candle · dharma wheel · Ouroboros · Tree of Life · chalice · holy grail · incense · Pentagram · Star of David · altar · eye · Eye of Providence · all-seeing eye · third eye · evil eye · star · serpent · crescent

Categories
Opposites
sacred vs. secular representation

spiritual symbolscorporate logos

Visual emblems identifying companies

traffic signs · warning labels · product labels · road signs · barcode

meaning and depth

spiritual symbolsdecorative motifs

Recurring artistic design elements

stock imagery · clip art

purpose and function

spiritual symbolsmathematical symbols

Characters denoting quantities and operations

currency symbols · punctuation marks

Family

symbol, spiritual

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G