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DescriptionKajira-kef.svg |
An artistic rendition of the Kajira "kef" symbol (or "staff and fronds") of John Norman's science-fictional "Gor", based on one personal visual interpretation of the following purely verbal descriptions from Norman's series of books:
Français : Le symbole "kef" pour kajira (ou "le baton et les feuilles") d'après les livres de science-fiction « Chroniques de Gor » par John Norman.
Deutsch: Kajira-Symbol „Kef“ nach den Beschreibungen des Gor-Zyklus. |
Date |
between 2005 and 2006 date QS:P,+2005-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+2005-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+2006-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Author | AnonMoos |
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For an alternate version (maybe not as precisely fulfilling all the above descriptions, but more decoratively floral and "open"), see Image:Kajira-kef (alternate).svg . See also Image:Dina-gor.svg, Image:U5974-History.svg, Image:Gorean-collar-3-moons-emblem.svg (and a Gor flag with different meaning at Image:Bosk-Port-Kar-ship-flag-Norman-Gor.svg ). |
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Short title | One artistic rendering of the Kajira Kef (or Staff and Fronds) symbol of John Norman's Gor series of science fiction books |
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Image title | One artistic rendering by AnonMoos of the Kajira Kef (or "staff and fronds") symbol of John Norman's Gor series of science fiction books, based on the following verbal descriptions from the books: Book 11 (chapter 3) - "a stem with floral, cursive loops". Book 14 (chapter 4) - "a straight line, rather severe" and "adjacent to it, to its right, two fronds, curled and graceful"; "the design also bears a remote resemblance to the English letter 'K'" . Book 22 (chapter 5) - "a vertical bar, a rather strict one, with two curling, frond-like extensions, rather near its base". Book 13 (chapter 1) - "a staff" (of "uncompromising severity") with "two, upturned, frond-like curls, joined where they touch the staff on its right"; "bears a distant resemblance to the printed letter 'K' in several of the Western alphabets of Earth"; is "more floral" with "extended, upturned, frond-like curls", than a "common cursive [letter] Kef". Book 23 (chapter 1) - "small, delicate". Book 14 (chapter 8) - painted in red when used as a separate symbol. Book 11 (chapters 3, 11, and 26), book 13 (chapter 1), book 19 (chapter 3) - height is about three times width. (Note: In this image, the symbol is actually shown as only about two-and-a-half times higher than it is wide.) |
Width | 260 |
Height | 600 |