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Heraldic Templates -- Beasts and Monsters: Sea Monster
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Heraldic Templates -- Beasts and Monsters: Sea Monster
| Sea-Horse |
The sea-horse is an heraldic sea-monster, with the foreparts of a horse and
the tail of a fish. Period depictions, from the late 15th Century, may show
it with forehooves, or with fins in their place, either form is correct. (The
latter is more often found in English emblazons.)
There may also be a webbed dorsal fin; this too is artistic license. The sea-horse
is erect by default. The modified term natural sea-horse refers to the small tropical fish of the Syngnathidae family; it may also be called a hippocampus. Its naiant posture, erect with tail sufflexed is the default. 1 | |||||
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| Sea-Horse Erect |  |
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| Sea-Horse Erect to Sinister |  |
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| Hippocampus Naiant |  |
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| Hippocampus Naiant to Sinister |  |
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| Sea-Lion |
The sea-lion is an heraldic sea-monster, with the foreparts of a lion and
the tail of a fish; it is also sometimes blazoned a morse, especially
for canting purposes. Its earliest use in armory
seems to be in the attributed arms of "King Palaeolgus", c.1282. Period depictions may show the sea-lion with a lion's clawed forepaws, or with webs between the toes; either form is correct. ... There may also be a webbed dorsal fin; this too is artistic license. The sea-lion is erect (rampant) by default; its proper tincture is with the leonine portion tawny brown and the piscine portion green. The modified term natural sea-lion refers to the pinniped beast, more often termed a seal; the two beasts are heraldically indistinguishable, so the latter term is preferred in blazon. The seal doesn't seem to have a default posture; sejant ... is common in Society heraldry. 1 | |||||
| Sea-Lion Erect |  |
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| Sea-Lion Erect to Sinister |  |
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| Seal Sejant |  |
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| Seal Sejant to Sinister |  |
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| Sea-Dog and Sea-Wolf | [Below are a sea-dog and a sea-wolf ... others can be extrapolated if needed by combining the fish's tail and the torso of the creature ...] | |||||
| Sea-Dog Erect |  |
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| Sea-Dog Erect to Sinister |  |
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| Sea-Wolf Erect |  |
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| Sea-Wolf Erect to Sinister |  |
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| Sea-Serpent | The sea-serpent is a monstrous finned serpent which was believed to live in the Great Ocean and attack unwary ships. In SCA heraldry, it is most often shown ondoyant, or wavy ... 1 | |||||
| Sea-Serpent Ondoyant |  |
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| Sea-Serpent Ondoyant to Sinister |  |
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Footnotes:
1 The Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry as Used
in the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., 2nd Edition, Bruce Draconarius
of Mistholme and Akagawa Yoshio, 1992, self-published.
| Disclaimer: All of these drawings are intended for use in the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., specifically for heraldic purposes. However, these pages do not delineate SCA College of Arms or West Kingdom College of Heralds policy. All attempts are made when describing or portraying the elements of armory used in these pages to be as accurate to both medieval and SCA usage as possible, but if you are not sure, you should check with the College of Arms or the College of Heralds. You may use these drawings "as is" for the purpose of designing heraldry for use within the SCA with this understanding. All decisions by the West Kingdom College of Heraldry and/or the SCA's College of Arms regarding the depictions used on your submission forms supercedes anything found here. |