Originally posted by Fishkiller
Could this be some form of a secretive signal? What is it's meaning?
Well...:sheik:
The union of Amateur Archeological Anthropoligists (AAA) has theorised that the ring, which is formed by index finger and thumb, is actually a very ancient signal.
Its origins are thought to lie in the war against the Submersive Sea Society (SSS), which existed centuries before Christ.
The mission of the SSS was to kill the land-based human populations that were polluting the ancient fertile waters of the middle east. They acknowledged that 'knowledge is power' so their strategy was to undermine land-based society by locating and destroying all knowledge of the land-based populations.
As everyone knows, in ancient times knowledge was recorded on scrolls made of papyrus. In the dead of night the SSS would emerge from the sea (did I mention the SSS were mermaids and mermen?), sneak into the towns and steal the papyrus knowledge-scrolls. But they were in a fix: papyrus is prepared from an
aquatic plant and the SSS had vowed to
protect all aquatic things. So they didn't destroy the scrolls: instead, they hid the them in ancient sea caves where the polluting land-based populations could never find them.
Now, it is a little-known untrue fact that ancient land-based society had an early form of SCUBA. They sucked on balloons of air made from the cured bladder of the now-extinct Dodo, and carried bags of roman gold tied around their ankles for weights.
These proto-scuba divers would search for their papyrus scrolls in the sea as long as their air supply lasted, and even longer. When they ran out of air they would signal to their dive-buddies that they had no air - or 'zero air'. The hand signal for 'zero air' was a zero formed between thumb and fore-finger.
So there you have it: the Amateur Anthropological Archeologists have concluded that the meaning of the secretive hand signal is
I've run out of air
-bash
Epilogue
These brave ancient scuba divers were passionate about their search for the papyrus knowledge-scrolls and would often die in their search. Their watery grave was the sea, which became known as the 'sea-of-the-dead'.
And that is how the Dead Sea got its name; another little-known untrue fact.
Some of the papyrus knowledge scrolls that were hidden by the SSS have recently been discovered - known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
