I'm looking for a crest or shield that might represent the eunuch family. Is there such a thing and if legal to use?

Eddie (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2013 4:45 am I'm looking for a crest or shield that might represent the eunuch family. Is there such a thing and if legal to use?

I've never heard of, nor seen one. Perhaps you might invent one!

Kristoff

kristoff wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:43 am I've never heard of, nor seen one. Perhaps you might invent one!

Kristoff

Kristoff, thanks for your confidence and I hope we can start a discussion about even a symbol, etc. I need another tattoo, LOL.

Eddie

There is the classic male symbol with the arrow cut off from the circle, but I don't think it would look nice on a crest.

Maybe an animal would look better. I'm not sure what animal would better represent eunuchs though. Perhaps a bull lying down, implying that he is now a steer.

And as a third option, there are those instruments that were used for castration in the past.

Perhaps an animal + a castration instrument would look nice...

Crests are a serious business. They should be taken seriously particularly one that reperesents persons with a very specific reason to have one. In English heraldry there's a part of the crest that can be used to represent bastardy-as I found when I wanted a crest that acknowledged that fact of my life. First there are considerations of shape, is a stanadard shield acceptable or is there something better? To my mind immediately occurred the three balls used by a pawn brokers and the Medici family-not that they were castrated. Perhaps the triple ball emblem with two empty spines and a remaining ball made slightly ovoid. That may be a bit simplistic, even silly but it's a starting point. Unlike English heraldry that is somewhat complicated to interpret, I believe what we should consider is something rather stark, that clearly indicates an absence.