Twin Peaks Usenet Archive

Subject: Re: the Owl Cave glyphs (SPOILERS)
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1991-04-10, 17:18
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article  jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes:
> >In article <91094.092639ACPS6410@Ryerson.CA> ACPS6410@Ryerson.CA (Nadir U Ahmed) writes:
>> >>- Cooper, Hawk, Truman, and Andy are in a cave and sees the
>> >>  picture that was also drawn by Cooper. An owl tries to attack
>> >>  the group. Andy swings his pickaxe and hits the top diamond?
>> >>  The middle diamond opens and a rod with a symbol appears:
>> >>		  The owl leaves the cave.
>> >>      /\/\/\	- Cooper mentions to Diane its Thursday 9:05 p.m.
>> >>      /    \	  He sees Annie and that scar. She won't explain
>> >>      \    /	  now but in time.
>> >>	 \/	- WE goes to owl cave and saw what was uncovered.
>> >>		  he sees on the ceiling the symbol inverted so
>> >>  he turned the rod so the symbol is upside-down. The wall then
>> >>  crumbled.
> >
> >(The symbol, incidentally, didn't look quite like the rendering above.  But
> >I can't come up with anything much better.  The symbol reminds me of an
> >owl.)

The symbol at the top wasn't symmetric. I took it to be a flame,
as in "FIRE - Walk with me." That's what Andy's pick hit when
he was swinging at the owl, not the uppermost diamond.

-- Dave Mack