English: 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"
"7th Letter" (Norman Invasions) - "...it reminds one of a cursive 'k' without the closure of the loop."
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.
Date
between 2005 and 2008
date QS:P, 2005-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319, 2005-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326, 2008-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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