TWIN PEAKS SYMBOL LIST (BY POPULAR DEMAND)
Kristen Templet
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david andrew southwood (dsou...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: Because several X-files people asked for it and wanted it, here is my
: old copy of the.......
: TWIN PEAKS SYMBOL DECODER:
: (C) 1991, 1995 - D.A. Southwood.
: If anyone copies this I will seek them out and force them to eat a live
: kitten which contains a bomb. This is my twin peaks symbol decoder.
: Watch it along with the show and add to it if possible. I made it while
: watching the show when it was first on.
: - someone writing the show had to have the job of tracking this stuff
: is my guess. There is too much of it. I think it is funny because it
: adds a bizarre ambience to the show and it is what gives it its spooky
: 'play with your mind' effect.
: 1. Rotating & Circular Objects
: a. The Ceiling Fan in the Palmer Home.
: b. The Record Player in the Palmer Home.
: c. The Fan in the Hayward Attic.
: d. The Spinning Roulette Wheel in One-Eyed Jacks.
: e. The 5 rings - green ring with symbol of owl cave, coopers golden
: circle ring, the twisted snake ring, audrey's ring, diamond ring for Donna.
: f. Close-ups of eyes (Jacoby, Crow, Cooper)
: g. Circle Brand Boots
: h. The Circle of White Candles (episode 3)
: i. The Circle of Trees in Glastonberry Grove.
: j. The Phases of the Moon
: k. Doughnuts
: l. Coffee Cups
: m. The Circle of Astrological Symbols on the Black Box
: n. The Traffic light itself.
: 2. The Traffic Light Symbol
: a. Changes from green to red when James changes moods.
: b. Stop/Wait/Go = Red/Yellow/Green
: 3. The "Invitation to Love" soap opera within Twin Peaks mirrors Twin
: Peaks in several ways, but it really isn't important to the story.
: 4. WATER/LIQUID
: a. The Waterfall
: b. Droplets from the Plate
: c. Sprinkler droplets - The "Shaking Hands" sound effect.
: d. Swan Lake
: 5. SHAKING HANDS SOUND EFFECT:
: a. Happens to cooper, Old lady in diner and Bob.
: b. Occurs with sprinkling water.
: c. Occurs when Bob is released from Leland and the sprinklers
: suddenly go off at the Sherriffs.
: 6. BIRDS
: a. Robin (opening sequence)
: b. Crow (watches Cooper as he enters Renaults cabin)
: c. Woodpecker (Sherrif Truman sees one)
: d. Chickadee (Cooper sees one)
: e. Waldo the minah bird (Gets shot by Leo)
: f. Owls (all over the place in the show) - Both small and giant.
: g. Agent cooper says in one episode: 'I don't like birds'
: 7. PSYCHIC VISIONS/THE OCCULT
: a. Conjunction
: b. Magic Circles
: c. Souls
: d. Telepathic Dreams
: e. Black/White lodge (which is an old Indian legend used in the occult
: books 'Moonchild' and the old science fiction novel 'The Devil's Hand' which
: some people suspect that the idea for parts of Twin Peaks come from.)
: f. Sourcerers
: g. Shamen
: h. Black Magic
: i. Dopplegangers
: j. Shadow Souls
: k. Astrological Symbols
: l. Moon Phases
: 8. TREES/WOOD
: a. The forest is always shown on and off.
: b. Log lady log.
: c. Knob on drawer in great northern in which Josies soul is entrapped.
: d. Lumber trucks constantly carrying logs.
: 9. PEOPLE WHO WEAR SUNGLASSES:
: a. Doctor Jacoby (The Blue/Red 3-D glasses and note that Blue/Red
: is a very important color code in the series)
: b. Jerry Horne
: c. Madeline Ferguson (wears Laura's sunglasses)
: d. Evelyn Marsh
: e. Thomas Eckhardt (fire reflects off of his sun glasses in one scene)
: 10. CIGARETTE SMOKERS
: a. Benjamin Horne
: b. Shelly/Leo Johnson
: c. Bobby Briggs
: d. Audrey Horne
: e. Josie Packard
: f. Donna Hayward
: g. Evelyn Marsh
: 11. FIRE (THE MAIN THEME)
: a. The Log Lady had a husband who died in a forest fire - the reason
: she carries the log.
: b. "Fire Walk, with me" (as over hot coals - is the meaning of this
: phrase in one sense).
: c. "Fire is the devil, hiding like a coward in the smoke" - The
: Log Lady.
: (which can give another meaning to FWWM).
: d. Packard Sawmill fire
: e. Fire reflecting off of Thomas Eckhardt's sunglasses.
: f. Fireplaces (all over) - Ever notice that there isn't a single home
: in Twin Peaks that DOESN'T have a fire going in any scene?
: g. 'The Indians used to 'Fire Walk' over hot coals' - John Justice
: Wheeler.
: h. "Close your eyes and you will burst into flames" - The Log Lady
: i. The highway where Laura leaves James - "Sparkwood and 21"
: j. "Fire would be the operative word here" - I can't remember.
: 12. WHITE HORSES
: a. Laura Palmer's pony (troy) that was seen by Sarah before Bob
: appeared.
: b. "General" Benjamin Hornes Civil war piece
: c. "Traveller" Benjamin Hornes life size stuffed white horse
: 13. LIGHT/DARK - BLACK/WHITE
: a. White/Black lodge (heaven/hell in certain Indian legends)
: b. Chess pieces.
: c. Audrey's shoes (pilot episode)
: 14. ELECTRICITY
: a. Sputtering Lights
: b. Sheriffs Office Lights
: c. Leo/Shelly Johnson's ceiling light which flickered when Leo came
: around.
: d. Television set.
: e. Telephone pole.
: f. The outlet
: g. 7 different neon signs get their own close-ups.
: h. Static on a television.
: i. Lightning.
: j. Telephone Wires.
: k. Sparks in Laura's room when bob enters.
: l. Strobe light in the dream sequence.
: m. Strobe light in the black lodge.
: n. The electrician in FWWM (he is in the credits at the end).
: o. Strobe light when Laura is beneath the fan and Bob is talking
: to her.
: 15. ANIMALS AND THE 12 SYMBOLS OF THE ZODIAC AND
: THE APPEARANCE OF THE NUMBER 12 WITHIN TWIN PEAKS
: (Sounds like a good thesis title):
: The 12 chinese years are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Cat, Dragon, Snake, Horse,
: Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig.
: a. Rooster Head - On top of Big Ed's gas farm.
: b. Mounted Deer Head (not a chinese year)
: c. Deer Head (next to Eric Powell)
: d. Cooked Pig Head - Chinese year #2.
: e. Goat Head - Chinese year #3.
: f. 'Year of the Ox' - Mentioned by Cooper in one episode - Chinese Year
: #4.
: g. 'Ceramic Tiger' - Found in someones home - Chinese Year #5.
: h. 'Rabbit shadow figures made by Ben Horne' (weak, I know).
: i. 'Year of the Snake' - Mentioned by Cooper in one episode - Chinese
: Year #6.
: j. White Horse - Chinese Year #7.
: k. Monkey - Chinese Year #8.
: l. Black Dog - Chinese Year #9.
: m. The Fox and The Pine Weasel.
: The Only true missing years are: Cat, Dragon, Rat,
: 16. THE NUMBER 12:
: Other appearances of 12: The 12 astrological symbols, The circle of
: 12 white candles, The 12 Trees in Glastonberry Grove, The 12
: Rainbow Trout
: 17. THE DOMINO:
: The Domino which Hank Jennings carry has imprinted on it a 3/3 symbol.
: This symbol is a code which Josie only understands.
: 18. NUMBERS/NUMEROLOGY:
: a. 3 cops.
: b. 5 drummers
: c. 7 in Wallies hide out.
: d. 2 4 8 1 0 from fire walk with me with a 6 above it. The 24810
: can be added to 2+4+8+1+0 = 15 ---- 1+5 to 6. The number is also
: a partial series 2 * 2 = 4 * 2 = 8 * 2 = 16, but only 10 is imprinted or
: 6 less.
: e. 315 was coopers room # in the hotel. It means nothing.
: f. 3/3 domino.
: 19. CHESS
: a. The King
: b. The Queen
: c. Windom Earl gives the Knight to Dr. Hayward
: d. Windom Earl puts Rusty Tomaski inside a Black Pawn.
: 20. TWINS & OPPOSITES
: a. Agent Cooper/Windom Earle
: b. Laura Palmer/Madeline Ferguson
: c. Mike/Bob
: d. Giant/Midget
: e. Jade/Emerald
: f. Laura Palmer has 2 diaries
: g. Two Packard sawmill ledgers exist
: h. 2 $10 K cash bundles exist
: i. Mrs. Tremond/Grandson (one young. one old)
: j. Two safe deposit box keys exist.
: 21. TATTOOS:
: a. Phillip Michael Gerard - "Fire" in the dream. "mom" in reality.
: b. Major Briggs - Triangles
: c. Log Lady - Mountains
: 22. THE COLOR RED (Of major importance):
: a. Red Curtains - at the Roadhouse and in the Blue Velvet bar of
: similar set design.
: b. Red Curtains - in the dream of cooper and laura
: c. Red Curtains - in Jacque Renault's log cabin
: d. Red Curtains - inside One Eyed Jacks.
: e. Laura's Red Chair in the classroom at school (they purposely show
: a close up of it)
: f. Red stitches of thread
: g. The 'Lady in Red'
: h. The 'Red Corvette' of Leo which Laura muses over on tape
: i. Red Neon signs.
: j. Red Light of the stop light. - James anger symbol.
: k. Red Lens of Jacoby's glasses.
: 23. ALMOST ALL SIGNS IN TWIN PEAKS ARE NEON:
: a. 'Mar-T'/RR Diner
: b. 'Big Ed's Gas Farm'
: c. 'The Road house' (Bang-Bang - with the two shells in the puddle)
: d. 'One-Eyed Jacks'
: e. 'Wallie's Hide Out'
: f. The Book House
: 24. POETRY
: a. Mike
: b. Bob
: c. Windom Earl
: d. Pete Martell
: 25. FOOD OBSESSIONS
: a. Jerry Horne is obsessed with food
: b. Cooper is obsesssed with Cherry Pie.
: 26. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO SAW BOB IN REAL LIFE (NOT IN A
: DREAM):
: a. RONETTE
: b. COOPER
: c. SARAH
: d. LAURA
: e. MR. PALMER (Who was bob)
: 27. EYES THEMSELVES
: a. Nadine's eyepatch (over the left eye)
: b. The old womans eyepatch (over the right eye)
: c. One eyed jacks sign (showing the left eye)
: d. The right eye of the crow
: e. The right eye of Dr. Jacoby
: f. Coopers eye
: g. Ceramic figuring in Nadines home of the woman wearing an eyepatch.
: 28. TIBET
: - again the 'Eastern religion/mystic symbolism' theme kind of runs
: along with the rest of the show.
: 29. THE BROKEN HEART NECKLACE
: 30. THE QUEEN OF DIAMONDS
: - Audrey selects this card from Blackie during her interview for
: a job
: at the whore house.
: - Windom Earle in a later episodes pins this card to Audrey.
: - Windom Earle picks this card far later for Audrey when planning on
: which one of the women to kill.
: 31. THE BLACK PORTAL/PUDDLE:
: - There are two of them. One in Glastonberry grove and one in front
: of the 'Bang-Bang' bar.
: 32. MISSING ARMS:
: - The One Armed man is missing an arm.
: - The arm is the midget.
: - Teresa's left arm went completely numb before her death.
: - Laura's left arm went completely numb before her death.
: 33. ANGEL SYMBOLS
: a. Bobby holds up his arms to simulate the wings of an angel prior
: to Laura Palmers funeral.
: b. The Train Car.
: c. The White Angel in the Black Lodge.
: d. The "gathering of angels" at the roadhouse.
: e. Ceramic figurine of the angel with 1 black wing within
: Nadine's home
: shown in only 1 episode.
: --- the 'man in black' could be some kind of 'dark angel' for the show.
: 34. THE MASKS
: a. One mask on coopers bed of Catherine.
: b. The pointed white mask that the Tremonds grandson wears.
: c. The white mask that Audrey wore.
: d. The white mask that the Shaman wears.
: 35. TIME
: a. Clocks are found ticking away in billions of scenes in twin peaks.
: b. Time runs differently in the black lodge than the outside world.
: 36. INDIAN SYMBOLS:
: a. Indian Head Gasoline - available at Big Ed's
: b. Indian Whooping noise - The midget does it and it is heard when
: the telephone pole is shown.
: c. Indian Headdress (that Johnny Horne wears)
: d. Indian Legend of a Black/White lodge is used.
: 37. BURNING ENGINE OIL:
: a. Laura smells it in FWWM.
: b. Maddy smells it.
: c. Ronette smells it.
: d. Jacoby smells it.
: e. The log lady smelled it before her husband died - It is supposedly
: the 'key to a gateway' in the show.
: 38. FLOWERS:
: a. Harold was a horticulturalist
: b. Black rose is Blackies nickname
: c. Blue Rose = ???? (some people have suggested that it is a symbol
: which stands for a 'Project Bluebook' case)
: d. Pink Rose - on Laura's door.
: e. The Flower room prior to the Black Lodge.
: f. The Flower room within One Eyed Jacks.
: 39. CORN:
: a. The Creamed Corn held by Tremond's grandson - Episode 13 or so.
: b. 'I'm a turkey lost in the corn' - Laura - FWWM (weak..)
: c. The corn sitting on the midgets table in the black lodge.
: d. Corn is a symbol of pain and suffering supposedly - also called
: Garmonbozia for some bizarre reason that I can't fathom.
: e. The monkey eating corn at the end of FWWM.
: 40. THE UNIDENTIFIED 'MAN IN BLACK' CHARACTER
: - appears 3 times or so within the show - very far apart.
: a. Behind Leo at the drug deal in an early episode.
: b. Kidnaps major briggs (he is seen standing at the top of the hill
: in the white light. You almost have to stop the tape to see it.)
: c. Appears randomly in front of a white background.
: 41. JUDY
: a. Major Briggs mentions Judy Garland in one episode - this is
: a bizarre link to the Wizard of Oz which parts of the movie 'Wild at
: Heart' show symbols of.
: b. 'We are not going to talk about Judy' - David Bowie
: c. Judy - Whispered by the Monkey at the end of FWWM - Turn it up!
: It is definitely there. Weird....
: COLOR SYMBOLOGY OTHER THAN RED:
: * WHITES: Angel, White Mask, White Horse, White Lodge, Leland's Hair Color.
: * BLACKS: Lips of Laura and Theresa Banks, Log (runs at night), Black Lodge,
: Black Stitches, Chess Pieces, Coffee, Blackie
: * REDS: Drapes, Chair of Laura, Red Thread, Red Blood, Lady in Red, Red
: Corvette, Red Neon, Red Stop Light, Red Lens of Jacoby's Glasses.
: GREENS: Globe, Formica Table, Green Stop Light
: * BLUES: Rose, Blue Neon, Project Bluebook (mentioned in the show several
: times),
: Electricity, Ronettes IV (tainted with Haleperadol), (Light on Julie
: Cruisee - a similar
: scene is in Blue Velvet.), Blue Lens of Jacoby's Glasses.
: PINK: Rose, Harold's flower.
: ORANGE: Fire, Triangle Symbols
: YELLOW: Corn.
: Unexplainable symbols:
: 3 triangle scars in space and on Major Briggs.
: 2 mountain scars on the log lady.
: The prostitutes form an inverted v.
: The owl cave petrocliff symbols & map.
: The symbol on the ceiling of owl cave and on the ring both.
: The legend of King Arthur and Glastonberry Grove - What in the world does
: this have to do with anything in the show? It is mentioned a couple times.
: The point of the old lady with the ice pack other than an eyepatch symbol.
: The scenes shown that connect the Black Hooded Man to the White
: Background
: to Space to Owls to Fire.
: The 3 or 4 frames that flash Windom Earle's face within the Black Lodge while
: 'soulless' Laura is screaming her head off.
: Scaramunga, Don't give up.