Word: glyph
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...rain rendered, yes, purple by stage lights, the 48-year-old rock star unloosed a medley of his own songs and covers. Then, just after the marching band came on and everyone began to marvel that the miniature maestro of Minneapolis could be so family friendly, he and his glyph-shaped guitar cast a suggestive silhouette onto a giant billowing sheet. It was after all, Prince. If you want subtle, watch golf...
...coincidence that this new arc begins at this loaded, occult number. Readers of Alan Moore's recent work, most notably "From Hell," have gotten used to his fascination with the connections between physics and metaphysics. For this journey Promethea follows the Kabbalah, AKA "The Tree of Life," a Hebrew glyph of ten interconnected numbers laid out like a hopscotch pattern. Dedicating one issue to each "sephiroth," or number, Moore imagines each one as a real place corresponding to a part of our solar system, an aspect of divinity, and a card in the tarot deck. As Promethea travels to each...