Symbols, languages, and stories change from culture to culture. Whether it be adaptation to the new times or be another culture trying to understand a way of life, about people in a faraway land. Either way time and distance can create large misunderstandings between the origins and meaning of a people’s way of life. And one prominent in the western world that misunderstands a symbol in the eastern world… the all mighty fez. Yes, that red hat that many of us have seen in movies, comics, and television. The fezzes history and meaning is complex and full of rises and falls. This is how a hat changed religions, empires and the world itself.