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Three Crowns The lesser arms of Sweden The three crowns on Stockholm's City Hall. Three Crowns (Swedish: tre kronor) is the national emblem of Sweden, present in the coat of arms of Sweden, and composed of three yellow or gilded coronets ordered two above and one below, placed on a blue background. Similar designs are found on a number of other ...
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Three Kings Day and the feast day of the Epiphany are on the same day. Both represent the day the Three Wise Men—Los Tres Reyes Magos—gave gifts to Jesus Christ.
The end of the Christmas season will bring another day of celebration for many Austin residents. Jan. 6 marks Día de los Reyes Magos, or Three Kings Day, a celebration that arrives in conjunction ...
Orion's Belt is called Drie Konings (Three Kings) or the Drie Susters (Three Sisters) by Afrikaans speakers in South Africa [58] and are referred to as les Trois Rois (the Three Kings) in Daudet's Lettres de Mon Moulin (1866). The appellation Driekoningen (the Three Kings) is also often found in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch star charts and ...
The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (an incense) as a symbol of deity, and myrrh (an embalming oil) as a symbol of death. *This dates back to Origen in Contra Celsum : "gold, as to a king; myrrh, as to one who was mortal; and incense, as to a God."
Various symbols have been used to represent individuals or groups for thousands of years. The earliest representations of distinct persons and regions in Egyptian art show the use of standards topped with the images or symbols of various gods, and the names of kings appear upon emblems known as serekhs, representing the king's palace, and usually topped with a falcon representing the god Horus ...