Kit Fisto and Ying Yang?

If you notice on all the Clone Wars episodes with Kit Fisto, note his belt and you'll see that little japenise symbol of a ying yang.


What is up with this?

 

The appropriate name of the symbol is the Yin and the Yang, not "Ying Yang," and Master Fisto's belt buckle decoration is actually two fish, while the Yin and the Yang are not fish. The connection, though, is quite obvious.

 

The Yin-Yang symbol is not really a 'japenise' symbol but a symbol of Taoism, which is primarily associated with its Chinese origin.

Read up on it here:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm

 

Yup it's the symbol of the Tao - the principle of the universe, representing the opposites in nature - light an dark, life and birth etc. - which is the same thing that "The Force" in Star Wars represents (mixed with the idea of God and the devil, and modified as per GL's belief) as GL has said - the push and the pull between the 2 opposites of the entity.

 

Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me. I too had some questions about symbols, preferrably one on the Arcs helemt that looked like a Death Watch symbol, but thats all cleared up now.

 

The obvious questions now about the symbol are:

A) Is it something just personal to Kit Fisto?
B) IS it something sacred for Kit Fisto's race (Nautolan?)
C) Is it a Jedi symbol?

I actually prefer a combination of B + C. Only Nautolans who become Jedi can wear this sacred symbol.