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Items such as codpieces may suggest the assumed superiority of one gender-role over another: or symbolic leadership (implied by implied potency) within patriarchal structures. A slightly less extreme example, but one more common in modern times, expresses power relationships (and thus leadership symbolism) through the use of the phrase "wearing ...
Some officials of the medieval Eastern Roman Empire carried maces for either practical or ceremonial purposes. Notable among the latter is the protoallagator, a military-judicial position that existed by about the 10th century A.D. and whose symbols of office were reported by the Palaiologan writer Pseudo-Kodinos in the 14th century to include a silver-gilt mace (matzouka).
Fasces – fascism, neo-fascism, Italian fascism, magisterial power, authority; Fist and rose – socialism and social democracy; Flash and circle – British fascism; 🍀 Four-leaf clover – agrarianism, Hibernophila, Irish nationalism, good luck; 🌐Globe – globalism, neoliberalism, Internationalism ☭ Hammer and sickle – communism ...
A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, particularly in Commonwealth countries, as an abstract name for the monarchy itself (and, by extension, the state of which said monarch is head) as distinct from the individual who inhabits it (that is, The Crown ).
They represent the three primary virtues: valour (the sword), wisdom (the mirror), and benevolence (the jewel). [1] The actual historical status of these legendary treasures is unknown as they are intentionally kept from public view to symbolize authority. Representations of the regalia are used in masakaki in many Shinto rituals. [2] [3] [4]
Although the clenched fist has come to represent a show of power and perseverance—upon Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990, both he and his wife Winnie raised their fists in triumph ...
Great seals usually represent the sovereign enthroned, holding a sceptre (often the second in dignity) in the right hand, and the orb and cross in the left. Harold Godwinson appears thus in the Bayeux Tapestry. [citation needed] The earliest English coronation form of the 9th century mentions a sceptre (sceptrum), and a staff (baculum).
They were originally the attributes of the deity Osiris that became insignia of pharaonic authority. [1] The shepherd's crook stood for kingship and the flail for the fertility of the land. [1] The earliest known example of a crook is from the Gerzeh culture (Naqada II), and comes from tomb U547 in Abydos [citation needed].