Rocky Mountain College MT
Not sure if this is heraldic enough to be heraldry.
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I went to the College’s homepage to find out more about the design. The College’s site does not say anything about how the design came about. To me it looks like a Native American symbol or symboles on a shield shape. But
I have virtually no knowledge of Native American symboles.
Well, I see a cross, a stylized oracle’s flame (academic heraldry) and what looks like mountains flanking the oracle’s flame on the cross. But, I could be wrong.
Donnchadh wrote:
Well, I see a cross, a stylized oracle’s flame (academic heraldry) and what looks like mountains flanking the oracle’s flame on the cross. But, I could be wrong.
I see a torch rather than an oracular flame, but otherwise I agree.
Edward Wenzl wrote:
I went to the College’s homepage to find out more about the design. The College’s site does not say anything about how the design came about. To me it looks like a Native American symbol or symboles on a shield shape. But
I have virtually no knowledge of Native American symboles.
I think it’s the particular artistic rendering rather than what it intrinsically is that might lead one to think this. If one starts with a cross voided and cotised and torch, it might make more sense…
I’d agree that the use of tapering lines does give it a Pacific Northwest Indian look (which would be quite inappropriate for Montana), but I also think this falls more into the shield shaped logo camp than it does into the heraldic one. And I see a raindrop falling on a golf tee.
It seems to me that the design derives directly from the quasi-armorial seal of Billings Polytechnic Institute, in the center of the row of seals below the shield—a torch enflamed between two pairs of mountains in the flanks.