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The winged wheel logo was actually borrowed from a cycling club in Montreal. Here's how it happened.

Detroit was awarded an NHL franchise in 1926, and the owners stocked their team by purchasing the roster of the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League. The team was known as the Detroit Cougars for a couple of years, then the Falcons. They did not win often under either name.

In 1932, a millionaire named James Norris bought the team. Here's the rest of the story, as told by Bob Duff in his Detroit Red Wings article in Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League:

"Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, a sporting club with cycling roots. The MAAA's teams were known by their club emblem and these Winged Wheelers were the first winners of the Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a version of their logo was perfect for a team playing in the Motor City and on October 5, 1932 the club was renamed the Red Wings."

Coincidence or not, the new name and logo marked a turnaround in the team's fortunes. The Detroit Red Wings made the playoffs in their first season, and won their first Stanley Cup in 1936.

they borrow the ancient wheel of fortune aka the wheel of progress - ive seen it used in all sorts of automotiive applications including gas stations and mechanics as architectual adornment. "Earliest mention found in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, where he describes "Fortune's Wheel"." i believe thats the goddess vanna pictured riding the wheel in the link above.


- bill 10-14-2005 5:06 pm [add a comment]

THIS IS NORMALLY DEFINED AS:

The Illumination of the Mentality.

THERE ARE THOUGH OTHER DEFINITIONS TOO:

Eternal Progress of the Human Soul through The Light of Spirit.

When Souls Aspire for Higher Loves, True Wisdom is Attained.


ANOTHER ONE, ASCRIBED TO THE GREEK MYSTERIES IS:

The Interior Form of the True Soul Moving Incessantly Onwards, Toward the Highest.


- bill 10-14-2005 6:02 pm [add a comment]

Winged Wheel Used in mystic philosophy worldwide, depicted under many forms, whether as a winged wheel, globe, egg, disk, etc [eyeball]. The Stanzas of Dzyan state that "Fohat takes five strides, and builds a winged wheel at each corner of the square for the four holy ones." Here winged wheel is a name for the four Maharajas who are the guardians or regents of the cosmic forces of the cardinal points north, south, east, and west (SD 1:122).

"And Indy's [the brickyard] famous flying-wheel logo goes back to 1911."