No H in Snake

There's an old (1979) music theory textbook called No H in Snake. I have no idea why it's called that, even though I was taught out of that book as a child. I think one of the activities involved arranging cards with musical notes on them into a row, or "snake," and the notes only go from A to G, so "no H." Anyway, I think you'll agree that it's a very memorable title -- which we used to press into service as the best deadpan surrealist response whenever anyone said "Remember there's no I in team."

In my last post, I noticed the logo for Taiwan's National Health Insurance, which is a stylized green H.

Back in 2021, I noted that the British equivalent of Taiwan's socialized healthcare, NHS, is Hebrew for "snake" -- and also the initials for No H in Snake.

H is the 8th letter, and 8 is the lemniscate. This made me think of the old 8chan logo, which was a green lemniscate that suggests a two-headed snake. The snake imagery was made explicit in the new 8kun logo, though it is unfortunately no longer green.

That 8chan lemniscate -- a mirror-image S in green -- looks a bit familiar, doesn't it?

No H in Snake -- if a figure-eight can represent a snake (à la 8kun), then that gets us to this:

As the context of that magazine cover should make clear, the "NOH8" slogan has nothing to with not hating people and everything to do with promoting the idea that sexual pathologies and perversions are good. The more usual symbol of this ideology is the rainbow -- symbol of God's promise to Noah never to flood the earth again -- so it it presumably not a coincidence that "NOH8" brings to mind Noah and the eight people who were saved in the ark.

Doing an image search for noah 8 brought up this, with a green cursive L similar in general design to the 8chan logo and the No H in Snake treble clef.