Hello again everyone, it has been a very long time since I’ve dropped in. I see that there are some new faces since I was last in this neighborhood, this is excellent.
I’ve dropped by with a question.
Back in the early days of 2006-ish I put together my Coat of Arms, at the time I was was somewhat more… fervent. Since designing my arms my relationship with the divine and religion has cooled somewhat.
I don’t want to change the design by any means, I still love it (It is even displayed at my local bar, which is awesome in its own right). But I was wondering if there are any… nonstandard… interpretations for a cross cottised that I could fall back on until and if my spiritual journey changes again.
Does that make any sense at all?
In any case. Hello to all once again. Hope all is well.
Just think of them as railroad tracks heading out from, or toward, your boar’s head in the four cardinal directions. It’s all good.
This is a more loose interpretation, but it could represent the roads of life intersecting together and picking which direction to head. The cottised could be the sidewalks for when the gas prices get to high.
Snyder;98402 wrote:
This is a more loose interpretation, but it could represent the roads of life intersecting together and picking which direction to head. The cottised could be the sidewalks for when the gas prices get to high.
I like the roads of life thing… the sidewalks think might… well. I’ll take that under advisement.
I get the impression that I might be trying too hard to justify something that doesn’t really need justifying.
ESmith;98405 wrote:
I get the impression that I might be trying too hard to justify something that doesn’t really need justifying.
Bingo.
Seconded.
ESmith;98405 wrote:
I like the roads of life thing… the sidewalks think might… well. I’ll take that under advisement.
I get the impression that I might be trying too hard to justify something that doesn’t really need justifying.
That’s a big plus for you. (See what I did there? )
Joseph Staub;98411 wrote:
That’s a big plus for you. (See what I did there? :D
ESmith;98393 wrote:
at the time I was was somewhat more… fervent. Since designing my arms my relationship with the divine and religion has cooled somewhat.
I went through something rather similar. Likewise, my arms remained unchanged and actually took on an addition and deeper meaning!
The cross as an ordinary is so ubiquitous heraldically that affiliation or allusion to christianity doesn’t even occur to me unless otherwise referenced.