To the Ancient Egyptians, onions symbolized eternity since the concentric rings resembled the nested layers of the Earth and the Heavens. Don’t read too much into it though, to the Ancient Egyptians, everything symbolized everything else. Cats symbolized royalty. Peanuts symbolized democracy. The rippling banks of the Nile symbolized both death and the harvest. A rat with a locust riding on its back symbolized the 1972 Atlanta Braves. Seven white carnations being urinated on by an emu symbolized the sanctity of marriage. Norman Bates symbolized Gary Cooper. A hollow gourd inverted over a well symbolized traditional American values, which in turn symbolized me drinking an icy light beer and listening to ghosts singing through the floorboards. To them, even all of eternity…