fasces occult meaning
[Ëfas.keËs] , a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning bundle) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces had its origin in the Etruscan civilization, and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate 's power and jurisdiction.The image has survived in the modern world as a representation of magisterial or collective power.asces-symbolism might deriveâvia the Etruscansâfrom the eastern Mediterranean, with the labrys, the Anatolian and Minoan double-headed axe, later incorporated into the praetorial fasces.