Procter & Gamble Satanic Controversy- Cincinnati, Ohio
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BruceS
N 39° 06.169 W 084° 30.445
16S E 715538 N 4331144
This location is the corporate headquarters of the Procter & Gamble Company which was the subject of an urban legend in the 1980's about the company having something to do with satanic worship.
Waymark Code: WM529B
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 10/29/2008
Views: 79
"The company received unwanted media publicity in the 1980s when an urban
legend spread that their previous corporate logo was a Satanic symbol. The
accusation is based on a particular passage in the Bible, specifically
Revelation 12:1, which states: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars." Since P&G's logo consists of a man's face on a moon
surrounded by thirteen stars, some have claimed that the logo is a mockery of
the heavenly symbol alluded to in the aforementioned verse, and hence the logo
is Satanic. Where the beard meets the surrounding circle, a mirror image of the
number 666 can be seen when viewed from inside the logo, and this has been
interpreted as the reflected number of the beast, again linked to Satanism.
Also, there are two horns like a lamb that are said to
represent the false prophet. These interpretations have been denied by company
officials, and no evidence linking the company to the Church of Satan or any
other occult organization has ever been presented. The company has sued and
attempted to sue a number of companies and individuals who have spread rumors of
this type, in some instances because they sell competitive products and have
spread such rumors for the purpose of tarnishing P&G's image to increase sales
of their own brands.
As stated in one of the resulting lawsuits, the logo originated in 1851 as
the symbol for their Star brand of candles. It was later altered to show the man
in the moon overlooking 13 stars, which were meant to commemorate the original
13 colonies.
An example of one such rumor was the fabricated account that the president of
P&G had appeared on a Saturday edition of The Phil Donahue Show. He declared
that he was a Satanist and that the company's logo was Satanic. This rumor
circulated despite the facts that the company's president has never made such a
statement in public, had never appeared on Phil Donahue's show, and that
Donahue's show never ran on Saturdays. Later variations of this rumor replaced
the Donahue show with Geraldo Rivera's show.
However, the continuous media coverage prompted P&G to adopt an entirely new
logo consisting of just the letters P&G."