Scarab - lord of illusions

done with iPad / artstudio

some edits:
Added more to the title. 
Moved the A/O symbol from the top of the image to the water/language triangle in the "function" brackets; it's better there both aesthetically and conceptually, so it would bother me forever not to just change it (still might add a glow effect behind it so it stands out more.  annoying because my gifted iPad is on my BF's account so I need to bug him to upload things :/).
Added (unary) & to the earth triangle. 

Added a description (this almost never happens but this one's fairly easy to explain), so:

The idea is that "fire" (not specifically fire, but any source of current) is being used to write information into the "earth" (not specifically dirt, but any memory medium).
The written information can, in turn, be used as a tool to continue the process, so there's a cyclical subject-driven pattern to the evolution of languages.
So this is basically the magical 'hello world' scarab.