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| Keywords: Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers.png Three crescents interlaced so as to be incomplete Borromean rings This was the emblem of Diana of Poitiers and her lover Henry II of France see external site http //www liv ac uk/~spmr02/rings/moons html It has also come to be used in the coat of arms of Bréval see Image Blason ville fr Bréval Yvelines svg and Crécy-la-Chapelle see Image Blason CrecylaChap svg and in a slightly different form as the emblem or petites armoiries of the city of Bordeaux see en Image Bordeaux30 jpg In recent years it has been taken up by a few neopagans as an alternative version of the symbol Image Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol png though it has an unfortunate resemblance to a modern biohazard symbol For a version in symbolic colors see Image Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers-multicolored png For a solid form of the symbol see the lower corner of Image Religious symbols svg own -- Generated by means of the following PostScript code <pre> 306 396 translate 5 setlinewidth 30 rotate /cresc -75 0 translate 0 0 150 210 150 arc -32 1619076 0 123 2009724 142 5 217 5 arcn closepath def gsave cresc clip stroke grestore gsave 240 rotate cresc gsave 1 setgray fill grestore clip stroke grestore gsave 120 rotate cresc gsave 1 setgray fill grestore clip stroke grestore gsave -75 0 translate 1 setgray 0 0 150 7 42 arc -32 1619076 0 123 2009724 42 7 arcn closepath fill 0 0 150 261 282 arc -32 1619076 0 123 2009724 293 269 arcn closepath fill grestore cresc clip newpath 0 setgray 0 0 150 5 45 arc stroke -32 1619076 0 123 2009724 45 5 arcn stroke 0 0 150 260 283 arc stroke -32 1619076 0 123 2009724 294 268 arcn stroke showpage EOF</pre> 2005 AnonMoos Also ca 1400 the Hungerford family of Farleigh castle in western England used a design of three similarly-interlaced sickles as one of their heraldic badges ; and the arms attributed to Ednywain ap Bradwen founder of the 15th noble tribe of north Wales have three interlaced white serpents on a red shield Reference The Complete Book of Heraldry by Stephen Slater ISBN 1843096986 pages 124 and 191 see also external link http //www liv ac uk/~spmr02/rings/snakes html For another such symbol see Image Snoldelev-three-interlaced-horns png Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers full-black png Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers svg Diane de Poitiers Goddess movement - Thealogy symbols Wiccan symbols Crescent moon symbols Crescent-shaped incomplete Borromean rings interlacings Images with PostScript source code | ||||
