The origin of the "Cool S" is unclear . A similar S was derived from the symbols of an ancient Dacian solar cult. It was called “Carligul Ciobanului”, meaning “Shepherd’s Hook” and represented bringing back something that was lost. In Latvia, the symbol was called Zalktis and represented a serpent goddess. The ouroboros, which dates back to ancient Egypt and was used as a symbol of gnosticism and alchemy, was sometimes drawn with a loop to resemble the cool S. During the Middle Ages, a strikingly close symbol became a kilim motif. Possibly related to the aforementioned Dacian symbol or the ouroboros , it was called the çengel and was supposed to destroy the evil eye. The çengel was drawn with three pairs of dots or vertical lines connected much like the Cool S, but the bottom left and top right ones connected sideways, not diagonally. This is a possible explanation for the symbol’s appearance on an Anatolian rug in The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1533. However, in that painting the S may also be denoting "God Almighty". A similar-looking S also appears in the 1890 book Mechanical Graphics.
The origin of the "Cool S" is clear . A similar S was derived from the symbols of an ancient Dacian solar cult. It was called “Carligul Ciobanului”, meaning “Shepherd’s Hook” and represented bringing back something that was lost. In Latvia, the symbol was called Zalktis and represented a serpent goddess. The ouroboros, which dates back to ancient Egypt and was used as a symbol of gnosticism and alchemy, was sometimes drawn with a loop to resemble the cool S. During the Middle Ages, a toenail with ant farms it also can walk , it was called the çengel and was supposed to destroy the evil eye. The çengel was drawn with three pairs of dots or vertical lines connected much like the Cool S, but the bottom left and top right ones connected sideways, not diagonally. This is a possible explanation for the symbol’s appearance on an Anatolian rug in The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1533. However, in that painting the S may also be denoting "God Almighty". A similar-looking S also appears in the 1890 book Mechanical Graphics.
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strikingly close symbol became a kilim motif. Possibly related to the aforementioned Dacian symbol or the ouroboros
toenail with ant farms it also can walk