Redpill me on this gesture. It's associated with Heavy Metal and Rock music, but it's also in lots of superhero fiction (most commonly Spider-man and Dr. Strange), and a variant known as the 'Too Sweet Salute' is common in the world of Pro Wrestling.
Double horns is the Mudra of one of the strongest and most compassionate protector deities in existence. The wrathful aspect of Amitabha Buddha himself.
https://en.tbsn.org/master/detail/4/Mahabala_.html
So it's a good thing? Seems odd for it to be associated so strongly with forms of art and industry which are implicitly or explicitly satanic.
It's a ward against the evil eye, popularised by Ronnie James Dio who claimed he got it from his Italian grandmother.
The trick with these gestures, as ever, is correct orientation.
With the palm of your hand forwards, you repel evil.
If however you present the back of your hand forwards, as though you were flipping the bird, you invite evil.
Yes, it's a good thing. It's extremely powerful masculine energy that empowers warriors to cut through adversity and defilements. Metal is popular among the US military because it amps warriors up.
Most "satanic" movements aren't worship of the devil but rather a direct rebellion against the validity and sanctity of the churches.
Any significance to this version, where the middle and ring fingers are extended to make contact with the thumb, as seen throughout the wrestling world?
Incorrect application of the mudra. It will have some, but diminished, effectiveness still. Wrestling is basically pure masculinity.
its not incorrect application of the mudra but a different mudra. mudra simply means gesture. there are no incorrect mudras, incorrect labeling can sometimes happen though, so that is not the mudra that is called x culture a or y in culture b, but its mudra
It's the sign you make when you're talking through your Kitsune wife. The three front fingers are opened and closed according to the sounds your wife is making and the two vertical fingers represent the ears.
That more closely resembles the wolves.
Its satanic, that simple.
Dio wasn't Satanic. He was at worst a lapsed Catholic boy. A holy diver. A rainbow in the dark. A real life Dark Souls hero.
There's karana mudra which wards off evil, but you don't hold the thumb down
I think the Western form/intent is devil horns like they said
it was actually invented by italians
I think its best if you cease your enquiries
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It represents Satan's horns all other answers are wrong.
In Ancient times it was the symbol of the Cuckold. When an adulterous wife put Horns over her Husbands head.
Not much but if you know you know.
Spiritual practitioner. It combines the middle finger... akash or space, ring finger, associated with life force, and thumb, or simply the divine into one unilateral entitiy. Then, orientation counts. Palm forward it's consecration or makes divine whatever you point it at. Pointing is conciousness. Backwards, (palm facing towards you) actively deconsecrates whatever it is you're focusing at. Palms up is receiving diving info, down is giving divine info... facing left is masculine divine becoming the divine feminine, facing right is divine feminine becoming divine masuline.
Actually moronation saying it's "devil horns" Honestly it's not even imaginative to say and let's say it was meant to be devil horns that somehow does harm... why the hell would God make man to do that? If it's just a symbol... stfu and gtfo nobody cares.
Useful especially if you are a beginner doing spiritual shit. Even if you are practiced it's still useful if you can't be bothered to mentally and energetically form the akash, life force, and divine into one. (BTW if you keep your thumb and ring fingers close for long enough, it will dissipate you life energy fast. Warning.)