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Concise Encyclopedia of Heraldry
concise encyclopenia of heraldry
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First published January 1, 1915
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July 27, 2024
Jung has identified the power of symbols, an apparatus that points to something beyond itself; its depth allows psychical energy to be imbued to it. Compared to sign, the meaning is opaque and cannot be added to it anymore eg the red on the traffic light shows “stop”.
But symbols like the crescent and moon, the Union Jack, the mandala or even the swastika, they possessed an elusive depth to it. In it, religious, cultural connotations are appended to it, and with it too, the germs of meaning and destiny.
Durkheim listed anomy, the free-floating angst without any regulation and structure, as one of the sociological cause of suicide. Modernism triumphed when it succeeded to isolate the individual from its context, so it can reap benefits without the moral baggage to consider its effect to the people and environment.
Thus, one of the things that can re-constitute man into the collective consciousness, reducing self-focus and isolation and allowing the feeling of transcendence into the fiber of daily living is the study of history.
My maternal family hailed from the clan of Tanah Datar, of the few noble clans of the people of Minangkabau. Her ancestors migrated to today’s Negri Sembilan as part of the royal entourage accompanying the invited Prince of Pagar-Ruyong to be installed as the Overlord of the State, at the behest of local kinglets, or Undangs. The people of the Minangkabau bear the tricolor flag known as the Marawa, and each of the noble clans have their own arrangement to the colors of the Marawa: the Tanah Datar is of the black, red and yellow.
My paternal family, on the other hand, possessed an unbroken line to the Sultan Muzaffar Shah III of Perak. His Majesty belonged to the House of Siak-Perak, who continued ruling the kingdom of Perak after the direct lineage of Malacca faded away. And from His Majesty’s ancestors, there’s unbroken line to the Malaccan rulers via the maternal line of his great-great grandfather. And from the line of Parameswara, continued the line until reached Sang Sapurba, the first penultimate ruler of the Malays.
I have elaborated elsewhere the difficulties in defining the Malays, due to its position as a sub-ethnic among the Austronesians. In summary, I believe the Malays are of the Austronesian stock, speak the Malayo-Polynesian language, especially of its Western branch, committed under the rule of the Srivijaya Empire who was the zenith-empire of the people of the Archipelago, accepted the suzerainty of Sang Sapurba and his Brothers, continued under the banner of the Malaccan Empire and through it embraced the Islamic religion. Regarding cultural practice, they adhered to either the Ketemenggungan or Perpatih schools of thoughts.
Our other ancestors include the Maharaja Lambor, the Viceroy of Acheh who administered Perak during its conquest of the kingdom. And one of our recent ancestors include a Bahaudin of Kabul, of which details is unknown except that perhaps he is of the Turanic or Central Asian stock.
Due to the distance of our line with the Sultan Muzaffar Shah III yet at the same time shared his blood, we thus established a cadet branch of the Siak-Perak House. We named it as Kayseri, a play of words on the Arabic nickname “Qasir”, means “short” or “stout”.
I have undertaken the effort to investigate and establish our genealogy, and possessed of a manuscript kept by the family which cohere with the royal genealogy. And with it, we created a coat of arms, with out words: VOLARE AETERNUM ALTIUS; Soaring Forever Higher.
The heraldic description for the coat of arms is as thus;
On the breast of the owl, lies a shield. The owl: standing rampant-guardant, abaise. Above its head, a crescent and an estoiles. The shield: per fess, in chief per pale, in sinister a Turkic casque, in dexter a Corinthian casque, both in adoase, lying on a field of argent. The champagne: chevron, with dome at point, parted by three vertical stripes: or, gules and sable. Accosted by a griffin-rampant in dexter, a compass in sinister. Talons wielding a scroll, bearing the characters: MCMXCVI. The ribbon-scroll beneath bear the words: VOLARE AETERNUM ALTIUS.
Below are the full genealogy of our line, only be given in initials to preserve our anonymity;
SMY bin AS bin AB bin NZ binti AH bin MJ bin TM binti NH binti MS binti RMA bin Sultan Muzaffar Shah III Perak bin Raja Mansur Yang Dipertuan Muda Pulau Tiga bin Sultan Muzaffar Shah II Perak bin Raja Mahmud.
Raja Mahmud bin Sultan Khoja Ahmad Siak bin Sultan Ibrahim Shah Siak bin Raja Perma Sura, Maharaja Siak
Raja Mahmud bin Raja Putih binti Sultan Mansur II Pahang bin Sultan Zainal Abidin Pahang bin Raja Mahmud I Pahang bin Sultan Muhammad Pahang bin Sultan Mansur Shah Melaka bin Sultan Muzaffar Shah Melaka bin Sultan Muhammad Shah Melaka bin Megat Iskandar Melaka bin Sultan Iskandar Shah Parameswara bin Sri Maharaja Temasik bin Sri Rana Wikrama bin Sri Wikrama Wira bin Sri Tri Buana bin Sang Sapurba.
God knows best.
But symbols like the crescent and moon, the Union Jack, the mandala or even the swastika, they possessed an elusive depth to it. In it, religious, cultural connotations are appended to it, and with it too, the germs of meaning and destiny.
Durkheim listed anomy, the free-floating angst without any regulation and structure, as one of the sociological cause of suicide. Modernism triumphed when it succeeded to isolate the individual from its context, so it can reap benefits without the moral baggage to consider its effect to the people and environment.
Thus, one of the things that can re-constitute man into the collective consciousness, reducing self-focus and isolation and allowing the feeling of transcendence into the fiber of daily living is the study of history.
My maternal family hailed from the clan of Tanah Datar, of the few noble clans of the people of Minangkabau. Her ancestors migrated to today’s Negri Sembilan as part of the royal entourage accompanying the invited Prince of Pagar-Ruyong to be installed as the Overlord of the State, at the behest of local kinglets, or Undangs. The people of the Minangkabau bear the tricolor flag known as the Marawa, and each of the noble clans have their own arrangement to the colors of the Marawa: the Tanah Datar is of the black, red and yellow.
My paternal family, on the other hand, possessed an unbroken line to the Sultan Muzaffar Shah III of Perak. His Majesty belonged to the House of Siak-Perak, who continued ruling the kingdom of Perak after the direct lineage of Malacca faded away. And from His Majesty’s ancestors, there’s unbroken line to the Malaccan rulers via the maternal line of his great-great grandfather. And from the line of Parameswara, continued the line until reached Sang Sapurba, the first penultimate ruler of the Malays.
I have elaborated elsewhere the difficulties in defining the Malays, due to its position as a sub-ethnic among the Austronesians. In summary, I believe the Malays are of the Austronesian stock, speak the Malayo-Polynesian language, especially of its Western branch, committed under the rule of the Srivijaya Empire who was the zenith-empire of the people of the Archipelago, accepted the suzerainty of Sang Sapurba and his Brothers, continued under the banner of the Malaccan Empire and through it embraced the Islamic religion. Regarding cultural practice, they adhered to either the Ketemenggungan or Perpatih schools of thoughts.
Our other ancestors include the Maharaja Lambor, the Viceroy of Acheh who administered Perak during its conquest of the kingdom. And one of our recent ancestors include a Bahaudin of Kabul, of which details is unknown except that perhaps he is of the Turanic or Central Asian stock.
Due to the distance of our line with the Sultan Muzaffar Shah III yet at the same time shared his blood, we thus established a cadet branch of the Siak-Perak House. We named it as Kayseri, a play of words on the Arabic nickname “Qasir”, means “short” or “stout”.
I have undertaken the effort to investigate and establish our genealogy, and possessed of a manuscript kept by the family which cohere with the royal genealogy. And with it, we created a coat of arms, with out words: VOLARE AETERNUM ALTIUS; Soaring Forever Higher.
The heraldic description for the coat of arms is as thus;
On the breast of the owl, lies a shield. The owl: standing rampant-guardant, abaise. Above its head, a crescent and an estoiles. The shield: per fess, in chief per pale, in sinister a Turkic casque, in dexter a Corinthian casque, both in adoase, lying on a field of argent. The champagne: chevron, with dome at point, parted by three vertical stripes: or, gules and sable. Accosted by a griffin-rampant in dexter, a compass in sinister. Talons wielding a scroll, bearing the characters: MCMXCVI. The ribbon-scroll beneath bear the words: VOLARE AETERNUM ALTIUS.
Below are the full genealogy of our line, only be given in initials to preserve our anonymity;
SMY bin AS bin AB bin NZ binti AH bin MJ bin TM binti NH binti MS binti RMA bin Sultan Muzaffar Shah III Perak bin Raja Mansur Yang Dipertuan Muda Pulau Tiga bin Sultan Muzaffar Shah II Perak bin Raja Mahmud.
Raja Mahmud bin Sultan Khoja Ahmad Siak bin Sultan Ibrahim Shah Siak bin Raja Perma Sura, Maharaja Siak
Raja Mahmud bin Raja Putih binti Sultan Mansur II Pahang bin Sultan Zainal Abidin Pahang bin Raja Mahmud I Pahang bin Sultan Muhammad Pahang bin Sultan Mansur Shah Melaka bin Sultan Muzaffar Shah Melaka bin Sultan Muhammad Shah Melaka bin Megat Iskandar Melaka bin Sultan Iskandar Shah Parameswara bin Sri Maharaja Temasik bin Sri Rana Wikrama bin Sri Wikrama Wira bin Sri Tri Buana bin Sang Sapurba.
God knows best.
April 2, 2024
This book is a wonderful addition to my research on my birth mother's Nichols family who came from Wales. Bravo.
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