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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Marc Washington: [QB] . . The main purpose of this page is educational in the sense that I got the idea after looking at this interesting link showing the hundreds of symbols used on coats of arms and family crests: http://www.oshel.com/symbols.htm Did you check out the above link? Impressive how astute the ancients were and how broadly educated they were expected to be and needed to be. [b]AFRICAN TRADITIONS FOUND IN EUROPE:[/b] This assigning of meaning to symbols is an African tradition where each tribe used to have hundreds of symbols for things and found throughout art. This leads one to notice other features of Africa found in Europe; leading to the conclusion that black Europe came from Africa. Here are a few: 1. King and Queenship: in Africa, not only king but queen mother for all tribes 2. As in Egypt, king is representative of God on earth 3. Succession denoted through the carrying on of through ordinal numbers carried on in same name: Neferkare II, Neferkare II, Neferkare III, Otto I, Otto II, Otto III. 4. Masonry. As simple an idea as the brick building and one that is ornamented. So far as I can see, the earliest examples of royals with coats of arms is in the early Middle Ages and is with black royals, not white. Leads you to believe that the tradition began black given the prominence of black royals throughout the early and middle Middle Ages (and growing absence thereafter and now there are none). In essence, though, this thread is about coats of arms of early and middle Middle Ages as being evocative of these being a black thing that later became a white thing. Here are some examples: Coat of arms of Wenceslas, lower right corner: [IMG]http://www.beforebc.de/all_europe/02-16-800-00-32a.jpg[/IMG] Coat of arms in pictures of both William of Orange and Anna of Saxony [IMG]http://www.beforebc.de/all_europe/0a.William.I.Prince.of.Orange.1533.jpg[/IMG] [b]Some history:[/b] [i]...displays are commonly called armorial bearings, armorial devices, heraldic devices, or simply armorials or arms. Historically, armorial bearings were first used by feudal lords and knights in the mid-12th century on battlefields as a way to identify allied from enemy soldiers.[/i] It was during this time and centuries earlier that black royals proliferated. Then Europe became white by degrees and today almost wholly is save for migrants. . . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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