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Symbols of female slavery other than Kef and U5974
Symbols of female slavery other than Gorean Kef and Chinese character U5974
Some selected symbols of female slavery, other than the relatively well-known Gorean Kef emblem (or "staff and fronds") and Chinese character U5974.
Top left: One artistic rendering or personal interpretation of the "Dina" abstract flower symbol, based on the verbal descriptions in John Norman's Gor series of science fiction books. For another version, see picture 150335.
Top center: Symbol with male sign above female sign, connected by an interlinked heart.
Top right: One artistic interpretation of the Roissy "triskelion" recognition and female sexual submission symbol, described in the classic "Story of O" by Pauline Réage as being worn on an otherwise plain "dull grey" polished iron ring lined inside with gold (presumably to avoid staining the skin of the finger). On top, the ring had an iron signet disk that was fairly large (relative to the size of a woman's ring), with a slightly-raised convex shape, which "for design bore a three-spoked wheel inlaid in gold, with each spoke spiraling back upon itself like the solar wheel of the Celts". Other people have come up with simpler interpretations of the Roissy symbol, but this is the best way I know how to make something which is literally and factually both a three-spoked wheel and a triskelion, each of whose legs spirals back on itself. This is a very basic depiction (using only simple cylinder and disk shapes, shown in a simple "isometric projection" pseudo-perspective) -- in an actual ring, the perpendicular angles should of course be rounded, and the top of the signet disk (here shown flat) should be slightly convex.
Middle left: Dmôê (Delta-Mu-Omega-Eta) is the shortest ancient Greek word for "female slave", and usually means specifically "woman captured in war" (as opposed to one born in slavery) -- or most literally etymologically it means "tamed woman" (where the D-M consonants of dmôê correspond linguistically to the T-M consonants of the English word "tame" according to the Grimm's Law historical sound change). Note that this word occurs in Homer (usually as the plural form dmôai).
Bottom: Forms of the sign for "slave girl" in Sumerian-Akkadian cuneiform (the earliest full linguistic writing system which existed in the world). This sign was used to write GEME (the Sumerian word for "slave girl"), and originated as a combination of a "woman" pictograph (a schematized drawing of a vulva) and a "mountains" pictograph (a schematized drawing of three peaks). At bottom left, the earliest version of the Sumerian sign (early 3rd. millennium B.C.). At bottom right, a late (first millennium B.C. Assyrian) version of the GEME sign (after pictographs gave way to abstract wedge shapes), at that time also used as the shortest way of writing the Akkadian word for "slave girl", amtu or amtum. For an improved shape of the pictographic sign at bottom left, see the font downloadable from my homepage, or picture 148445.
The Dina emblem and Roissy triskelion ring graphics are declared to be GFDL/CC-By-SA; see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dina-gor... and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Roissy_t...
The other emblems are simple monochromatic renderings of characters from my font (downloadable from my homepage).
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