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Zoso used to represent the planet Saturn for purposes of magick. Page is a Capricorn, a sign ruled by Saturn, and the Z-like symbol is distinctive as a common astrological mark for Saturn. The 'oSo' portion is similar to the alchemic symbol for mercury, also associated with Saturn. In cabalistic or hermetic study, knowledge seekers look to the god Mercury (Hermes) for guidance and light, more or less the scene that unfolds in the drawing on the inside cover of the 4th album and later acted out by Page in the concert film "The Song Remains the Same." This part of the symbol is also strikingly similar to the Lucifer script ciphered by Aleister Crowley in his book "The Equinox"; and the symbol as a whole strongly resembles characters of the "alphabet of the Magi", a seventeenth century text used for fashioning magickal talismans. What it means personally to Page is unknown, as he has never publicly revealed its meaning. His interest in Aleister Crowley, however, is widely known. The guitarist owns many of Crowley's original manuscripts and other effects, including (until the mid-1980s) Crowley's former home on Loch Ness, Boleskine House. In the 1970s Page owned the occult bookshop The Equinox in London, also an enterprise for publishing rare manuscripts. |
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