Hello Folks, this is my first post. I just found this copper ring on a beach in Okinawa, Japan. Can anyone tell me what I'm looking at? Thanks!

[kegster]

 

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[Lenrac2]

Cool ring!! Congrats on your find!

 

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[vpnavy]

I moved ya from TODAY'S FINDS! over to WHAT IS IT? for more exposure.

 

[adaniellebayer]

Hi ya kegster, nice find, with a cool design.
If you don't already do it, scuba dive in Okinawa, really cool stuff to find there. Plus a lot of fishing net sinkers in the pools in the lava. Used to dive there in the early 80's, and one of my dive partners found a huge gold ring below a drop off at the bottom, took up most of his finger. Just watch out for the sea urchins, sharp, sharp, sharp!

It looks like a sun or circle in the center, some Indian medicine circles have patterns with circles in the center..maybe Chinese medicine (Japanese(

 

[Red-Coat]

It looks like a sun or circle in the center, some Indian medicine circles have patterns with circles in the center..maybe Chinese medicine (Japanese(

Did you not read the previous replies correctly identifying it as a "vegisvir"... a magical symbol to help travellers find their way?

One poster attributed it as Viking and it's frequently misidentfied as such but, as I said, it's origins seem to be Icelandic and it's unknown until 800 years after the Viking age ended. It first appears in the Icelandic “Huld manuscript”, put together by Geir Vigfússon in 1860, using earlier published books containing “magical staves”. Where Vigfússon got the design from is not known, but he may have created it himself as a composite since there are no known (confirmed) depictions before his 1860 manuscript

 

[Gare]

Nice finds