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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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Date/Time Dimensions User Comment
2008-08-03 21:11 163×376× (1873 bytes) AnonMoos further minor tweaking
2008-07-30 19:14 163×376× (1916 bytes) AnonMoos updating to match recent version of SVG...
2006-10-16 23:16 163×376× (1839 bytes) AnonMoos tweaking...
2006-10-16 13:04 163×376× (1859 bytes) AnonMoos updating to reflect new version of SVG...
2005-12-18 01:19 162×375× (1816 bytes) AnonMoos microtweaking fronds for Final Version
2005-12-17 15:42 162×375× (1814 bytes) AnonMoos tweaking fronds - final version?
2005-12-17 02:16 162×375× (1820 bytes) AnonMoos Minor tweaking again
2005-12-14 14:40 162×372× (1836 bytes) AnonMoos slightly de-curled frond for more openness, increased height and reduced width. Hopefully approaching final version.
2005-12-13 11:44 166×362× (1859 bytes) AnonMoos Increasing height
2005-12-11 13:36 166×342× (1853 bytes) AnonMoos Narrowing staff for proportionality
2005-12-11 04:56 168×342× (1858 bytes) AnonMoos reduced fronds to make proportions approach closer to the height = three times width mentioned in book 11
2005-12-10 16:12 196×342× (2205 bytes) AnonMoos Lowering fronds
2005-12-05 21:44 196×342× (2323 bytes) AnonMoos minor tweaking
2005-12-05 01:53 196×342× (2327 bytes) AnonMoos De-curled fronds for more openness
2005-12-04 15:45 196×342× (2732 bytes) AnonMoos Trying to make it more vaguely "floral"; changing color to red in accordance with chapter 8 of "Fighting Slave of Gor".
2005-12-03 22:43 196×342× (2782 bytes) AnonMoos 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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