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Samantha-Wright — Palaiologoi
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Published: 2008-11-01 06:43:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 4647; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 621
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Yeah, don't you wish your empire had a crest that awesome?I'm looking at you, Holy Roman Empire.
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Agh! No! Maybe. I'll think about it. Christ, what's with these huge desktops?
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It's the size of my desktop.
24"
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Kekekekeke.
Looks rather Teutonic in more ways than one. I can definitely see this emblem being recycled by myself at some point
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Dude.
To hell with your heraldry skills.
It's Greek.
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I realise that. 'm just saying is all.
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Well, you can tell it isn't Germanic because it actually has aesthetically pleasing proportions, and is designed to be noble and majestic rather than fiercely intimidating. For reference, here's the Holy Roman Emperor's banner: [link] ).svg
Apparently, being adjacent to the Mediterranean makes empires more artistically inclined. *shrug*
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Giving an eagle a second head is supposed to make it less intimidating?
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Well, in this case it's all about looking over the east and west, which the Byzantine Empire rather did, being capitolled on the fault line between Asia Minor and Europe. And they really did get more horrifying in later, more Slavic and/or Baltic (and, indeed, occasionally downright Teutonic) renditions:
Albania: [link]
Austria: [link]
Russia: [link] (esp. 1883 version)
...and with the most bombastically horrible offense being by our friends at neither-Holy-nor-Roman-nor-an-Empire: [link]
Magic!
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actually it is a symbolic reference to janus a roman god who had two head one looking in future the other looking in the past . the two headed eagle is a affirmation to ideology of grounding yourself in traditions and history while aspiring progress
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This I had not considered. Thanks!
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