Secret Societies
Who waves like that?
by Greg Newell on May.06, 2009, under Secret Societies
He raised his right hand as if waving to the crowd. With his index finger and pinky prominantly extended, the two middle fingers folded down under his thumb, it was an odd wave indeed. He wasn’t in Hawaii and this wasn’t the “hang loose” wave. He wasn’t trying to be cool.
To the casual observer, the gesture went unheeded. But this was done intentionally, it was done publicly. I looked at the face of the president as he did this, and clearly the wave was directed to a specific person in the audience. I looked back behind the croud and there in the upper deck were two people waving back…exactly the same way! Nobody waves like that!
Well, if the thumb is extended, the wave says “I love you” to the deaf. Wow, I thought, such a beneficent President. But, that wasn’t the wave he gave. Interestingly, as a member of a college fraternity, that exact same signal was used between brothers of our secret society. Our mascot was the snowy white owl, another occultic symbol that eluded me at the time. I never thought much of these symbols; none of us did. We just wanted access to parties, beer and girls. The fraternal brotherhood was a great network medium for that. And we made great friends along the way. Our fraternity ritual was held in a secret room in the house and from what I remember was harmless…even reading from the bible. It was the thing that tied us all together. Nobody else knew our secrets. But here’s the president using our hand signal. And a lot of other very famous people
Well, as it turns out, it wasn’t “our” hand signal. Historically, raising the hand, palm out, index finger and pinky extended, middle two fingers covered by the thumb is known as the Satanic Hand Signal. Hmph. We (members of our fraternity) were told that this signal was used because it looks like the owl head that was our mascot). Innocent enough. Well George was a member of the Skull and Bones Society at Yale. So, in the case of Bush, he could be signalling to his buddies in the Skull and Bones Society, he could be a Satin worshipper OR he might be a Longhorns fan. He is from Texas….
