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One artistic rendition of the Kajira "kef" symbol (or "staff and fronds") of John Norman's fictional "Gor", based on the following descriptions in Norman's series of Gor 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 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 outline versions of this symbol with both 1:2½ and 1:3 aspect ratios can be found here: [1])

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current23:16, 16 October 2006163×376 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (tweaking...)
13:04, 16 October 2006163×376 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (updating to reflect new version of SVG...)
01:19, 18 December 2005162×375 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (microtweaking fronds for Final Version)
15:42, 17 December 2005162×375 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (tweaking fronds - final version?)
02:16, 17 December 2005162×375 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (Minor tweaking again)
14:40, 14 December 2005162×372 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (slightly de-curled frond for more openness, increased height and reduced width. Hopefully approaching final version.)
11:44, 13 December 2005166×362 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (Increasing height)
13:36, 11 December 2005166×342 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (Narrowing staff for proportionality)
04:56, 11 December 2005168×342 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (reduced fronds to make proportions approach closer to the height = three times width mentioned in book 11 )
16:12, 10 December 2005196×342 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (Lowering fronds)
21:44, 5 December 2005196×342 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (minor tweaking)
01:53, 5 December 2005196×342 (2 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (De-curled fronds for more openness)
15:45, 4 December 2005196×342 (3 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (Trying to make it more vaguely "floral"; changing color to red in accordance with chapter 8 of "Fighting Slave of Gor".)
22:43, 3 December 2005196×342 (3 KB)AnonMoos (Talk | contribs) (One artistic rendition of the Kajira "kef" symbol (or "staff and fronds") of John Norman's fictional "Gor", based on the descriptions in Norman's series of Gor books. )

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