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Rayed Solar Disk (Utu/Shamash šamšatu) — Documented Akkadian Motif, Akkadian–Old Babylonian

Akkadian–Old Babylonian šamšatu: a disc formed as a four-pointed star with wavy or curved rays in the intervals, the solar emblem of Utu/Shamash.

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Recumbent Crescent (Nanna/Sîn) — Documented Sumerian/Akkadian Motif, Early Dynastic–Old Babylonian

Isolated horns-up crescent used on Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian seals as the moon emblem of Nanna (Sumerian) / Sîn (Akkadian).

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Red Rose

A nineteenth-century botanical emblem of love, with period flower dictionaries specifically linking the red rose with beauty and romantic affection.

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Reed-Bundle Ring-Post with Streamer (MUŠ3, Inanna) — Documented Sumerian Motif, Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr

Bound reed bundle folded into a loop with hanging stalk-ends: the Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr ring-post with streamer, read as proto-cuneiform MUŠ3 and used as Inanna’s precinct marker.

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A rose pierced by a dagger sets tenderness against danger in one of tattooing's most enduring visual contrasts. This modern flash composition can speak to love carried through pain, memory that survives loss, or beauty defended by strength.

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Royal Artillery Gun Badge — British Army, 18th–Early 20th Century

A muzzle-loading field gun forms the centre of this documented Royal Artillery cap badge, accompanied in the complete insignia by a crown and motto scrolls.

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Russian Imperial Double-Headed Eagle Cockade or Badge — 19th Century–1917

A crowned double-headed Imperial Russian eagle was fitted to military helmet plates, busbies, buckles and specialist badges before 1917.

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Scallop Shell Badge

The scallop shell became one of medieval Europe's most recognisable signs of pilgrimage, carried home from Santiago de Compostela as a visible marker of journey, devotion, and return.

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Shields Mark

A shield turns defence into something visible: a surface that can stand between danger and the vulnerable while also carrying identity, allegiance, courage, and resolve.

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Square and Compasses

Freemasonry’s best-known combined emblem, pairing two builders’ tools used in lodge teaching as moral symbols.

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Stringed Bugle-Horn Badge — British Light Infantry and Rifles, c. 1800–1918

A bugle horn suspended by knotted cords served as a recurring badge device for British and British Indian rifle and light-infantry regiments.

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Swallowtail Butterfly Crest (Ageha-no-chō-mon / Ise Taira Seki) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A displayed swallowtail butterfly with indented hindwings, named from Kenmon’s Ise Taira Seki ageha plate.

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Tachibana Citrus Crest (Yakushiji Tachibana-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of the tachibana citrus: facing blossom with flanking leaves, fruit present only if the named cut includes it.

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Three-Scale Crest (Mitsu-Uroko-mon / Hōjō 1272 Flag Type) — Documented Kamon Motif, Kamakura–Edo

Three triangular charges conventionally called scales (uroko), specified as the Hōjō tokusō mark on the Bun’ei 9 (1272) kasho-senki ship-flag.

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Triple Hexagon Crest (Mitsu-mori Kikkō-mon / Fukayabe) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Three piled hexagonal plates (mitsu-mori kikkō), the Kenmon type for Nikaidō Fukayabe.

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Twin Serpents on Staff (Ningishzida) — Documented Sumerian Motif, Lagash II / Ur III

Two snakes in opposed coils around a vertical staff, heads meeting at the top, as on Gudea's chlorite libation vase for Ningishzida.

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Two-Bar Crest (Futatsu-Hikiryō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Two parallel bars (futatsu-hikiryō), with bar count defining the type.

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Two-Leaf Asarum Crest (Futaba-Aoi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of two heart-shaped leaves of Asarum caulescens (futaba-aoi), not garden hollyhock.

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Upright Arrowhead-Plant Crest (Tachi-Omodaka-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of Sagittaria trifolia: three-pointed arrowhead leaves on an upright (tachi) plant, not an embracing daki pair and not a water ground.

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Valknut

Three interlocking triangles form an ancient Scandinavian motif whose exact meaning is unknown; modern interpretation often links it with Odin, death, warrior memory, and the afterlife, but none is securely attested.

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Vegvisir

Vegvísir belongs to nineteenth-century Icelandic magical tradition, where it was recorded as a wayfinding stave for keeping one's path through storms and unfamiliar conditions—not as a Viking compass.

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Washer Crest (Kuginuki-mon / Square-Pierced-Round) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A square plate pierced by a round hole (座金 / washer), not a pictorial carpenter’s bar.

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Woodsorrel Trefoil Crest (Katabami-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of three notched Oxalis leaflets (katabami / 酢漿草), the notch distinguishing them from smooth Asarum aoi hearts.

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Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is the world tree of medieval Norse cosmology, a vast living structure around which gods, beings, roots, and realms are organised. Modern symbolism draws from that image to express connection, endurance, ancestry, and balance.

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Symbols

Rayed Solar Disk (Utu/Shamash šamšatu) — Documented Akkadian Motif, Akkadian–Old Babylonian

Recumbent Crescent (Nanna/Sîn) — Documented Sumerian/Akkadian Motif, Early Dynastic–Old Babylonian

Red Rose

Reed-Bundle Ring-Post with Streamer (MUŠ3, Inanna) — Documented Sumerian Motif, Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr

Rose Through Dagger

Royal Artillery Gun Badge — British Army, 18th–Early 20th Century

Russian Imperial Double-Headed Eagle Cockade or Badge — 19th Century–1917

Scallop Shell Badge

Shields Mark

Square and Compasses

Stringed Bugle-Horn Badge — British Light Infantry and Rifles, c. 1800–1918

Swallowtail Butterfly Crest (Ageha-no-chō-mon / Ise Taira Seki) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Tachibana Citrus Crest (Yakushiji Tachibana-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Three-Scale Crest (Mitsu-Uroko-mon / Hōjō 1272 Flag Type) — Documented Kamon Motif, Kamakura–Edo

Triple Hexagon Crest (Mitsu-mori Kikkō-mon / Fukayabe) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Twin Serpents on Staff (Ningishzida) — Documented Sumerian Motif, Lagash II / Ur III

Two-Bar Crest (Futatsu-Hikiryō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Two-Leaf Asarum Crest (Futaba-Aoi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Upright Arrowhead-Plant Crest (Tachi-Omodaka-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Valknut

Vegvisir

Washer Crest (Kuginuki-mon / Square-Pierced-Round) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Woodsorrel Trefoil Crest (Katabami-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Yggdrasil