Explanation of the symbols on In Utero

Symbols from top left corner to top right corner:

1. Sow: Most popular animal form of the Goddess. Demeter often appeared as one.
2. Jar sprouting a stream of water: A symbol for fertility and fertility gods.
3. Honeycomb: See "bee"
4. Dolphin: The totem of Demeter as Mistress of the Sea. The word "dolphin" comes from the Greek word for "womb."
5. Triangle: Represented female and the trinity of Goddess (Virgin, Mother, Crone). Also represented fire.
6. Mare: Symbolizes the Goddess Epona and the daytime aspect of Mareheaded Demeter. Scandinavian witches turned themselves into mares.

Symbols from top right to bottom right:

1. Alchemical Rose: The symbol of the sacred womb, the virgin daughter within the mother. Is applied to images like Kore/Demeter and Mary/Eve.
2. Baubo: [I think you could easily read this as Baubo representing Courtney and Demeter representing Kurt] A female clown who managed to draw laughter from Demeter in the midst of her grief. Baubo induced the Great Mother to forget her anger long enough to take a little nourishment.
3. Diameter: A symbol for water, salt, and sea. Is related to the primordial Mother Goddess, who mingled all elements to create life from flesh (earth), blood (water), breath (air), and fire (vital heat)
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5. Symbol for the planet Pluto: The female Pluto deity who was despised and discredited by Greeks and was combined with Demeter in a triple form (Virgin, Mother, and Crone).
6. Poppy: "since opium and its derivatives--morphine, heroin--are extracted from the opium poppy, it is hardly surprising to find the flower associated with sleep, inertia, numbness, and death. Demeter as a death Goddess was often shown with poppies [like the Heart-Shaped Box video]... Thebaine yields an important narcotic antagonist, naloxone, which is given to infants born of heroin addicts, to help soften the sock of withdrawl that such infants must go through."

Symbols from bottom right to bottom left:

1. Sub Pop logo
2. Geffen logo
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4. Bee: Was greatly prized because they gave valuable honey. Demeter was addressed as "the pure mother bee." Is identified with mortality in folklore. The bee "was a symbol of feminine potency of nature."
5. Infinity sign: [another interesting one] Sexual union and sense of perfection. Two becoming one (two uniting circles, one representing man and the other woman).

Symbols from bottom left to top left:

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2. Sulfer: Sacred to Athene. Associated with purification. Also symbolized angry aspect of Athene (Goddess Brimo), which was also identified with Demeter.
3. Labrys (axe): Stood for Amazons and their Goddess (Demeter / Artemis / etc.). Has been adopted by lesbians as their amuletic symbol.
4. Corn dolly: The embodiment of the harvest. One of its many alternate names was the Demeter.
5. Symbol for Ceres: Roman title of Great Goddess as Mother of the Harvest and ruler of all grains. Indicated planting of male seed in earth's womb.
6. Sistrum: Was used to worship Egyptian Great Goddess. A sacred rattle, whose sound dispelled evil spirits.