English: Drawing of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; crudely drawn in black version with thick lines, for use on a light background. The image shows a lens-like oval for the body, six noodles for the arms and two eye stalks.
The FSM emblem, which resembles, in this earthly realm, a type of crab which one finds scuttling sideways on a shore (except Earth crabs have 6 legs for walking and 2 for swimming, which could indicate that earthly humans see only the terrestrial legs not the sacred swimming legs; this subject remains a mystical contemplation the scope of which is not possible to describe here), is the symbol of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The holy FSM emblem was created by readers of the Boing Boing website^[1][2] as a parody of the Christian Ichthys symbol. This religious symbol is not yet an approved gravestone emblem of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers.