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The Symbol of Chaos originates from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories. In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. In contrast, the symbol of Law is a single upright arrow. It is also called the Arms of Chaos, the Arrows of Chaos, the Chaos Star, the Chaos Cross, the Chaosphere, or the Symbol of Eight. Moorcock has stated that he conceived this symbol while writing the first Elric of Melniboné stories in the early 1960s. It was subsequently adopted into the pop-cultural mainstream, turning up in such places as modern occult traditions and role-playing games. There are a number of traditional symbols that have the same geometrical pattern as Moorcock's symbol of Chaos, such as any of various eight-pointed stars, the star of Ishtar/Venus, the Eastern Dharmacakra and the Wheel of the Year, but none of these were symbols of ''chaos'' and their limbs are not ''arrows''. The '8' of Wands in Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot deck features prominently an eight-pointed star with arrows at the ends. Crowley described the card as representing "energy" scattering at "high velocity" that had managed to create the depicted eight-pointed figure. Moorcock said about his version,〔http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showpost.php?p=104003&postcount=4〕 An even-more-chaotic asymmetrical representation was by Walter Simonson in the ''Michael Moorcock's Multiverse'' comic (and subsequent graphic novel: ISBN 1-56389-516-1). == Games == The symbol's first appearance in a commercial role-playing game (RPG) was in TSR's Dungeons & Dragons supplement, ''Deities & Demigods''〔1980; ISBN 0-935696-22-9 http://www.rpgunited.com/product/default/tsr2013b.html〕 which included the gods, monsters, and heroes from Moorcock's Elric books as one of 17 mythological and fictional "pantheons". Copyright problems led to its omission from later editions. It then turned up quite naturally in Chaosium's ''Stormbringer'' RPG (one edition of which was published as ''Elric!'').〔1980-2003; ISBN 1-56882-152-2〕 The 1987 edition of ''Stormbringer'' was published jointly by Chaosium in the U.S. and Games Workshop (GW) in the UK. Moorcock's eight-arrow symbol of Chaos was subsequently arrogated by Games Workshop and became a frequent graphic element in their own ''Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000'' games and the related miniature figures. It also shows in ''Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines'', in the home of Aleister Grout, the Malkavian primogen. It further appears on an item called a "chaos device" in ''Heretic'' and ''HeXen''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Symbol of Chaos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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