One of the symbols looks like it has three Tomoe. Another one might be the All-seing Eye.
Also I think these Symbols are surrounded by a serpent eating his own tail. That symbol is called Ouroboros.
Thanks for the Tomoe link, perhaps that’s why I was thinking the shape of that one looked familiar, but I couldn’t pinpoint it. I can’t tell if two of the segments in it are connected or not, because there’s a snowflake in the way. LOL The pointed bits on it made the curved bits remind me a bit of the scythe, like the grim reaper carries.
And yes, that’s totally an Ouroboros now you mention it. I’d been looking at just the little symbol on its own and thinking how it almost looked like a person, but DUH, it’s actually a head. The Ouroboros is rather fitting, I mean…
The Ouroboros often symbolize self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things such as the phoenix which operate in cycles that begin anew as soon as they end. It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished.
…sounds like the Dark One to me.
I’m really hoping that Neal failed to summon his father from the dead because Rumple was not dead.
Also, I think Belle will be able to decipher the writings. And, who came up with this plan to summon the dead. To resurrect? Neal? Belle? Lumiere?
Is this on the Dark Castle grounds? Has it always been there, but Rumple had it hidden?
I could see it being in the castle grounds, just because Lumiere is gonna be involved in helping them. It looks like Belle’s gonna carry the candelabra out there with them, so Lumiere can guide them, and for practical reasons, I wouldn’t necessarily expect them to have Belle trek for ages through the woods carrying a lit candelabra, and it would also make more sense for Lumiere to know about it in the first place if it was somewhere close by, especially if he perhaps used to be human, working at Rumple’s castle, and rarely (if ever) left the grounds.
I dunno if it’s just that the rendering of the light is a bit off, but I’m wondering if whatever BelleFire do at that circle is actually at a different time to when Rumple rises up…
The second two pics look darker, like it’s later in the day, and in the top pic, the circle is glowing with red in the centre, but in the other one, it’s got the dark stuff flowing in from the edges. Feels like two separate incidents, perhaps? Maybe BelleFire try something but it doesn’t work, and then later on Zelena comes to finish it off?