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Empress shieldby *nahp75

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An eagle is represented on the empress’s shield, that is perhaps the most represented animal in heraldry since ancient times. It became symbol of the Roman legions, insignia of the Byzantine empire, emblem of the regal dynasty of the Hohenstaufen and symbol, adopted by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), of the Sacred Romano Empire, because he wanted to perpetuate the power that he had had in Augustus, his first representative.
As to why this bird was selected to symbolize power, we need to recall tradition. Dionigi Areopagita writes: “The aspect of the eagles reveals their regal character and the rush upwards and the rapid flight and the acuteness and the sobriety and the agility and the ingenuity to get the food that makes them strong, and their look, inflexibly ahead and without obstacles, turns toward the abundant and bright ray of the God Hierarchy solar issue in the strong extensions of the visual virtues" (All the works, translation by P. Scazzoso, 1981, page 133). Prerogatives that obviously the holders of the power adapted well to themselves.
Also the Christian world resorted to the eagle setting as symbol of Christ. In the Liber formularum spiritalis intelligentiae by Saint Eucherio of Lyon, who was one of the most authoritative figures in the Gallican Church of the V century, we can read: «The Eagles are the saints; in the Gospel (Matthew 24,28) it is written: “Wherever there is a corpse, here the eagles will be assembled”. Because the holy souls, when they go out of the body, they meet Christ, who dying became himself a corpse for them. The eagle also means Christ, as in Salomon (Proverbs 30, 19), that is the ascension of Christ».

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*Supro3D Feb 26, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I had to double take on this one as I thought it was Sin Cara's mask design.

Very nice job here.

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Thank you.

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