Since always people who considered himself above the others, had had the need to prove it one way or another according to the culture of that time. With a feather hat which feathers had to be the tallest of all the tribe, or with a crown made of gold and precious stones. We can find the most ancient references with the Persians whose kings kept a tiara decorated with stars trying to emulate the constellations. Nowadays, the tiara has evolved and the one who has the Pope of Rome is ornamented with three crowns, called triregnum, in reference to the sky, the earth and to the underworld. In Father's God iconography, he is represented with a five-crown tiara. In the paintings, the popes who abdicated, or the ones who refused this pontifical dignity, are represented with a tiara laid down their side. The sceptre give authority to his bearer. The Egyptians represented their power with a sceptre named Heka. Usually, the sceptre is a short cane made of wood or metal and almost always ornamented with jewellery. In most cases we must look to the upper part of the sceptre, which give the meaning, for example the eagles for the military or divine symbols for the religious ones. In the Greek and Latin tradition every God had a material for their crowns, which it usually came from the tree that was consecrated to. For Apollo the laurel, for Zeus the holm oak, and like this all the other gods. In this classic world not only the gods and kings received crowns but also the people who got the military or sportif glory. Crowns have always had a self-language depending on the power of the bearer, but in their evolution, they kept that circular and jagged structure in resemblance of the sun and his rays. In Cristian symbolism, crowns represented the victory of the light over the darkness and the sin. In the Coronation of Mary, it’s a crown with twelve stars, the virgin’s crowns are made of white flowers like the ones on the first communion and the weddings. Nowadays, humanity doesn’t give that importance to those symbols, the true power lies in the individual own personality and behave, and that is what the others have to recognize so we can embrace that true power.
SYMBOLS OF AUTHORITY
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