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An artistic rendition of the Kajira "kef" symbol (or "staff and fronds") of John Norman's science-fictional "Gor", based on one personal visual interpretation of the following purely verbal descriptions from Norman's series of 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 23 (chapter 1) - "the small, delicate 'Kef', for 'Kajira'"
- 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 font versions of this symbol with both 1:2½ and 1:3 aspect ratios can be found here: [1])
For an alternate version (maybe not as precisely fulfilling all the above descriptions, but more decoratively floral and "open"), see Image:Kajira-kef (alternate).svg .
An SVG version of en:Image:Kajira-kef.png . Converted from the following PostScript code:
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See also Image:Dina-gor.svg, Image:U5974-History.svg, Image:Gorean-collar-3-moons-emblem.svg (and a Gor flag with different meaning at Image:Bosk-Port-Kar-ship-flag-Norman-Gor.svg ).
Français : Le symbole "kef" pour kajira (ou "le baton et les feuilles") d'après les livres de science-fiction « Chroniques de Gor » par John Norman.
Deutsch: Kajira-Symbol „Kef“ nach den Beschreibungen des Gor-Zyklus.
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| current | 10:29, 2 August 2008 | | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (further slightly opening fronds... ) |
| 19:26, 30 July 2008 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (increasing the size of floral terminations, slightly opening fronds ) | |
| 22:54, 3 June 2008 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (tweaking floral terminations) | |
| 18:46, 17 May 2008 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (tweaking inside of upper flower ) | |
| 19:09, 14 May 2008 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (opening up overall shapes slightly ) | |
| 22:20, 11 March 2008 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (slightly tweaking stem of lower frond ) | |
| 09:56, 8 March 2008 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (placing on thousand-height grid; tweaking ) | |
| 08:45, 10 February 2007 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (tweaking upper frond to avoid narrowing) | |
| 23:22, 16 October 2006 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (Slightly rotating lower floral termination to be more parallel with upper frond...) | |
| 12:48, 16 October 2006 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (further tweaking...) | |
| 01:49, 16 October 2006 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (tweaking) | |
| 03:50, 15 October 2006 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (increasing size of quasi-floral terminations on fronds. ) | |
| 06:29, 14 June 2006 |  | 260 × 600 (2 KB) | AnonMoos | (An artistic rendition of the Kajira "kef" symbol (or "staff and fronds") of John Norman's science-fictional "Gor", based on one personal interpretation of the following purely verbal descriptions from Norman's series of books: *Book 11 (chapter 3) - "a s) |
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