Man-made symbols

One does get the impression when reading letters about various religious symbols that they were not man-made.

Take the Sikhs for example. Some of the Sikhs claim the turban was always part of their religion and for that reason they should not wear a helmet on a motorcycle or any other headdress for that matter. Yet, when you check the history of the turban you find it was just a creation of man for convenience.

The Sikh movement was an offshoot of Hinduism and was founded by Guru Nanak (1469-1538) which followed the Khalsa Order where the habit of wearing unshorn hair by his followers became the most celebrated of all the Sikh customs.

When the hair became too long, however, the Sikhs of the Khalsa Order had to find a head-dress and that is what they did when they began to roll it up and place it under a turban which was found to be the most appropriate head-dress for holding the hair in place.

But in the late 20th century a breakaway group from the Khalsa considered it in order to cut their hair but still use the turban as a "symbol of a Sikh".

Most Sikhs who lived outside of India in the 1990s belong to this group who still claim to follow the Khalsa Order, yet the turban is not mentioned in that order.

I wonder how many other religious symbols have been created by mankind and been used to change the laws of another country.