they look familiar to me too i wonder why
it looks like a mix of chinese and arabic ...i think

7th row, 5th column. the s curve with two dots resembles a writing that my friend came up with that represents an "A", and the last row, 4th column looks almost like the "C". I've got the alphabet in my gallery if you want to see.

These are very interesting, a private teacher of mine actually writes in that kind of symboling. I could try and get you agold of him if you still want. And you're also the first person I now know that knows what Lake Compounce is o_o and the Skyride is fun.

They remind me a bit about Taoistic symbols.

Looks kind of like Ameril (Am-e-rail)... A post-humus to the Language of the birds. Originating in the cradle of civilization only to move to east india, the language itself has been dead for many thousands of years. There were some odd 40 million characters, it's said to be indecipherable indecipherable.

These symbols are beautiful, and are very reminiscent of asiatic calligraphy. In the recorded history of chinese calligraphy, there are over 40,000 individual symbols. This number discludes all of the ancient Taoist monestaries' symbologies lost through tyranic dominations and destructive cover ups. Because in ancient times groups of people were so secluded from one another due to lack of transportation, they each had unique and individual forms of similar written language. Some were more similar to one another than others, but they are all forms of recorded energy.

I heard a great quote that says when one dedicates themselves to an expressive art, they are essentially offering themselves as a recorder for ripples of divinity.
Thse symols contain all of the energy that you put into each stroke. That is why when you get into the really complex chinese symbols that contain more than 80 strokes, for example, they are representative of very complex ideas, and are compiled into these detailed compositions.
The Latin based languages, and many of the modern world languages have been simplified to accomodate the logic based society upon which ours is modeled, whereas ancient languages were deeply rooted in spiritual energies and abstract empathetic sensativity.
This is why calligraphy is such a precise and sensative artform, and stretches far beyond brush rotation and line thickness techniques, and into imbedded thought, and focused energy.
You use alot of graceful curving lines, and circles in these symbols specifically, thus some of the more sensative viewers' comments on water and a sort of airy whimsical feeling, these shapes and angles were only used in more liberal taoist communities in ancient china, as they expressed femininity (Yin), and unstructured behavior. The more masculine symbols used almost no curving lines in that culture to represent structure (Yang), and order.

There are really good books on Tao Magic and ancient symbology, and where you might think that learning about other languages could be restrictive in suggesting you follow rules and structures, for me it was actually quite freeing in teaching me that many of these symbols were only meant to mean something specific to the artist themselves, and that they could mean any number of things to the many inerpreters.

Furthermore, There are studies on the physical affects of an artists energy on chemical and energetic structures. They would write different words like Love and hate on masking tape stuck to viles of water, then they would freeze them and when seen through a microscope, the molecules with love written on them were well composed and pleasing to see, whereas those with hate written on them, were chaotic and much more jumbled.

This is a beautiful example of just how strong the artist' stroke is, just as the singer' voice fills the atmosphere with energy vibrations, so does the stroke of an artis's hand, though often in a much more subtle and specified way. We as human beings are much more capable of energetic communication and psy energy manifestation than many care to know about. We are beings of energy these symbols are a beautiful way to harness that energy.

Peace and love to you, and refine, but do not restrict.

sorry for the long excited comment.