Is this an heraldic ESTOILE?
SEE CLEAR CLOSEUPS UP JANET'S STAR...
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=44073
Charges: These are the beasts, plants, monsters, artefacts and the like that are placed on the fields and ordinaries. They can either be given a specific tincture and divided into fields or they can be proper but the rule of tincture applies to them. Many are obvious as to what they are. However, the following are some that may be a little more obscure:
Estoile: A star with six or more wavy rays.
http://www.sandmartyn.freeserve.co.uk/Heraldry/roll03/hintro.html
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Did a little surfing and found the following heraldry information:
The Lazarus Artifex:
The following badge associated with this name was registered in July of 1993 (via Atenveldt):
(Fieldless) A maiden proper, vested vert, holding to her breast an estoile of eight rays argent
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"fieldless":
1. adj. a design which may be presented on any background, for example, a maker's mark.
[ This is definitely 'any background' ]
"proper":
1. adj. (of a charge) in its natural or most common coloration.
[ What could be a more natural or common coloration than Janet's breast?! ]
"charge":
1. n. an object or figure used as a distinct element of a heraldic design.
2. vb. to place a charge so that it lies entirely on another.
"vert":
1. adj. in green.
"estoile":
1. n. a charge, representing a star, composed of wavy rays (usually six) radiating from a common center.
[ ...but in this case, is specifically stated to be EIGHT wavy rays ]
"argent":
1. adj. in white or silver.
[ It sure looks silver to me ]
http://www.farreaches.org/cgi-bin/oanda_name.cgi?p=Lazarus%20Artifex
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The Kingdom of Atenveldt is part of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a not-for-profit educational organization that studies western European history by recreating the "best" pastimes and crafts of the Middle Ages.
http://www.atenveldt.com/
Kingdom Of Atenveldt
WelcomeThis site deals with name and armorial issues that are of interest to the people of the Kingdom of Atenveldt ("book heraldry").
http://atensubmissions.nexiliscom.com/index.shtml
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I do find it interesting that Lazarus (a resurrected one) should be a part of the equation.
I googled Artifex and it yielded some interesting results:
In INTRODUCTION TO ANDREAS KABLITZ’S RENAISSANCE — REBIRTH: SOME REMARKS ABOUT THE HUMANISTIC INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY
Ernst Behler
http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol9/behler.htm
He writes: The metaphorical concept for Vasari's view of this relationship between art and creation and the artist as creator is the notion of "deus artifex."
The latter appears to mean a 'skillful god.' Including Lazarus perhaps this helps us with the idea of a 'skillful resurrection' (a renaissance of sorts)... perhaps F2's rebirth!?
Another site says: artifex (Latin for 'creator'), so Lazarus Artifex would be a 'resurrection creator'.
Further, the Greek Dictionary of the NT says Lazarus is probably from the Heb. El'azar (or Eleazar) and the Hebrew-Chaldee dictionary says this means "God (is) helper."
Sounds like a Royal people who have learned to trust Yah to re-create something good (and infinitely better than what we have)...
There was also a Polish (I believe) art website: http://free.art.pl/artifex/
An Italian company has an interesting picture with a bare right breast (perhaps gigi could have a look and tell us what else is there!): http://www.artifexlibris.com/
A spanish language page yielded a pocket edition novel on the TEMPLARS in Stellar Artifex no. 2 with the following google translation:
Shades in the eternity
Angel Quesada Towers
16'5 11 xs cms., 240 págs., 7'25 euros
Illustration and design of cover of Alberto Cairo.
Was inevitable the fall of the Order of Temple?
Investigator of it hidden Manuel Ramirez receives parchments of extraordinary content: the test that the Templaria Order survived its apparent aim. But, how to reconcile this discovery with the known historical facts?
The visit of the historian Diego Ardé, prey of sudden fadings during which retrotrae until the time of the Crossed ones, will allow both to attend at the end of a conflict that began with the birth of the universe and of that depends the destiny on all the humanity.
"an exciting incursion by the time and myths of the hand of the celebrated author of the trilogy of the Islands of Hell"
Domingo Holy
Winning novel of Beca Black Week 2000
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.geocities.com/luisgarciaprado/artifex2/portada_artifex2.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3DArtifex%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8
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I wonder if can find any real historical significance to this (not relating to "The Kingdom of Atenveldt")... Perhaps the symbolism is the necessary key to understanding...
I'll leave that up to you!
Blessings,
Mammonator
