A Western Flag for the Chinese Zodiac: The Year of the Monkey

The flag for the Chinese Year of the Monkey features a purple flag with a Western symbol.  The Western Monkey Symbol is a crescent moon with a line through it.  The Americas have their own native monkeys that differ from the Old World too!  The great thing about New World Monkeys from America is that American Monkeys can hold on to tree limbs with their tails.  Old world Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Cambodian and Burmese Monkeys can not.

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Photo Credit--http://www.primaterescue.org/index.php/the-center-blog

Chesapeake Bay Flag Association Meeting - Pi Day 2013

The Chesapeake Bay Flag Association met today at the US Library of Congress in Washington DC. A private background tour was given and the tour featured several congenial speakers.

The Pi Flag on 3/14

The 'Pi' flag combines the international maritime flags of 3, 1 and 4 to represent the estimated vale of 'Pi' at 3.14.  The French looking part represents the number three, the red disc on white represents one, and finally the white cross on the red disc represents four.

The great coincidence is that these maritime numbers nicely fit into each other.  Additionally the flags of France, Japan, and Denmark are accidentally apparent when you united them to make up the symbolic flag for 3.14!

A neat unintended coincidence is that the Pi flag happens to have a circle in it, and looks like is it is a four piece of pizza pie! 

A Western Flag for the Chinese Zodiac: The Year of the Sheep

Finally a flag and westernized symbol for people born during the Year of the Sheep.
The flag for the Year of the Sheep has a white background with the Westernized Sheep symbol.





















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Photo Credit: http://www.123rf.com/photo_16392943_bleating-little-lamb.html

A Western Flag for the Chinese Zodiac: The Year of the Horse

Happy year of the horse?  It's just around the corner, and if you miss it, it'll be here again in 12 years.  Anyways just as East Asia created symbols for the West here are westernized symbols for the Eastern Zodiac.  The symbol for the Year of the Horse is stylized letter 'P' or is it a 'J' or backwards 'F?'  In any case it represents a horse's head running into the wind.

 

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Photo Credit:

http://wecaretogive.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kentuckyderby.jpg

A Western Flag for the Chinese Zodiac: The Year of the Snake

Two major zodiacs are known to the people of Earth.  The Western World follows a 12 Zodiac Totem that is tied to a lunar tempo calibrated to the solar cycle.  However in the East, a similar yet very different 12 paced Zodiac congruently follows a solar tempo yet is calibrated to a lunar cycle.  This is a great lucky stroke of balance between the East and the West.


The East typically adapts its culture to the West and has 'invented' symbols to represent the Western Zodiac.  In balance to this cultural equation it is high time for the West to reflect back the honor for the Eastern Zodiac.  Thus this represents Earth's Year of the Snake.

The colour green represents the earthy elemental of the snake.  The symbol is a stylized representation of a cobra.  It should intuitively indicate a serpent of sorts.  Currently we are in the Year of the Snake.

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Click Here to see the Flag and Symbol for the Western Adaptation for the Year of the Horse which will be next year in 2014.

the magical form of the Snake is the Hyrdra

Photo Source:
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2010/02/09/raise-your-hand-if-you-could-use-a-drink/

Flag from Le Voyage dans La Lune: A Trip to the Moon 1902

In the first of first science fiction classics Le Voyage dans La Lune 1902, A Trip to the Moon.  A flag is present at the launching of a space vessel to the moon.  The flag is a vertical tri-bar of pink, yellow, and pink.

This film would stir the imaginations of generations born in the 1800s.  Little did they know that many who saw this film would live to see science fact follow in the wake of science fiction.  A year after the films official release the wright brothers would build a flying machine. And 67 years later mankind did indeed send a ship with men to the moon.

Earth Flag from Le Voyages dans la Lune 1902

This film was produced and directed under the creative genius of George Melies who accomplished a spectacular work with the limited means of his times.







In the closing sequence which predates 75 years plus, the Star Wars classic celebratory scene.  In the upper left hand corner we can see a varied collection of flags.