File:Kajira-kef.svg

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An artistic rendition of the Kajira "kef" symbol (or "staff and fronds") of John Norman's science-fictional "Gor", based on one personal visual interpretation of the following purely verbal descriptions from Norman's series of books:

  • Book 11 (chapter 3) - "a stem with floral, cursive loops"
  • Book 14 (chapter 4) - "a straight line, rather severe" and "adjacent to it, to its right, two fronds, curled and graceful"; "the design also bears a remote resemblance to the English letter 'K'."
  • Book 22 (chapter 5) - "a vertical bar, a rather strict one, with two curling, frond-like extensions, rather near its base"
  • Book 13 (chapter 1) - "a staff" (of "uncompromising severity") with "two, upturned, frond-like curls, joined where they touch the staff on its right"; "bears a distant resemblance to the printed letter 'K' in several of the Western alphabets of Earth"; is "more floral" with "extended, upturned, frond-like curls", than a "common cursive [letter] Kef"
  • Book 23 (chapter 1) - "the small, delicate 'Kef', for 'Kajira'"
  • "7th Letter" (Norman Invasions) - "...it reminds one of a cursive 'k' without the closure of the loop."
  • Book 14 (chapter 8) - painted in red when used as a separate symbol
  • Book 11 (chapters 3, 11, and 26), book 13 (chapter 1), book 19 (chapter 3) - height is about three times width. (Note: In the image here, the symbol is shown as only about 2 1/2 times higher than it is wide. Vector font versions of this symbol with both 1:2½ and 1:3 aspect ratios can be found here: [1])
Français : Le symbole "kef" pour kajira (ou "le baton et les feuilles") d'après les livres de science-fiction « Chroniques de Gor » par John Norman.
Deutsch: Kajira-Symbol „Kef“ nach den Beschreibungen des Gor-Zyklus.
Date between 2005 and 2006
date QS:P,+2005-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+2005-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+2006-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Author AnonMoos
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For an alternate version (maybe not as precisely fulfilling all the above descriptions, but more decoratively floral and "open"), see Image:Kajira-kef (alternate).svg .

See also Image:Dina-gor.svg, Image:U5974-History.svg, Image:Gorean-collar-3-moons-emblem.svg (and a Gor flag with different meaning at Image:Bosk-Port-Kar-ship-flag-Norman-Gor.svg ).

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current15:56, 15 February 2013Thumbnail for version as of 15:56, 15 February 2013260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)adding XMLNS header to avoid future problems
10:29, 2 August 2008Thumbnail for version as of 10:29, 2 August 2008260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)further slightly opening fronds...
19:26, 30 July 2008Thumbnail for version as of 19:26, 30 July 2008260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)increasing the size of floral terminations, slightly opening fronds
22:54, 3 June 2008Thumbnail for version as of 22:54, 3 June 2008260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)tweaking floral terminations
18:46, 17 May 2008Thumbnail for version as of 18:46, 17 May 2008260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)tweaking inside of upper flower
19:09, 14 May 2008Thumbnail for version as of 19:09, 14 May 2008260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)opening up overall shapes slightly
22:20, 11 March 2008Thumbnail for version as of 22:20, 11 March 2008260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)slightly tweaking stem of lower frond
09:56, 8 March 2008Thumbnail for version as of 09:56, 8 March 2008260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)placing on thousand-height grid; tweaking
08:45, 10 February 2007Thumbnail for version as of 08:45, 10 February 2007260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)tweaking upper frond to avoid narrowing
23:22, 16 October 2006Thumbnail for version as of 23:22, 16 October 2006260 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)Slightly rotating lower floral termination to be more parallel with upper frond...
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