Title: Symbolic quest into homoclinic chaos Abstract: We demonstrate how the original computational technique, based on the symbolic description and kneading invariants, can disclose the complexity and universality of parametric structures and their link with nonlocal bifurcations in a few of representative systems with strange attractors. We explore the multi-fractal, self-similar organization of heteroclinic and homoclinic bifurcations of saddle singularities in the parameter space of these models. ANDREY SHILNIKOV Neuroscience Institute and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, USA. ashilnikov@gsu.edu