Japanese Naval Maritime Auxiliary Numbers Flag from WWII

The following image is from a Japanese Anime about fanciful all women sailor team.  The image has be modified to be more accurate.  In the original version the number 4 flag has black dots, but in this version it is changed to blue dots.  Likewise the 2nd Sub flag is colour corrected.  Finally the teachers eyes are adjusted to look more normal.

You can see the original artwork here with mistakes and complete maritime signal code - HERE. 

Don't Tread on Me in Greek with Clash of the Titan's Medusa from Ray Harryhausen.

A flag for the Legend who stirred our Imaginations.  A Greeco-American Don't Tread on Me Flag featuring Ray Harryhausen's last most epic monster to grace the halls of world wide cinema.

Laurin Stennis Mississippi State Flag - A State Flag in the Making

The Mississippi flag will change in the near future, by 2021.  Today the elected leaders of Mississippi are voting on whether or not to allow the flag to change.  In the aftermath of George Floyd riots, this is a part of the wake that is shaking the culture of America and the world, right now.

The most popular flag in the running for the New Mississippi, 21st Century flag is the Laurin Stennis design.  Her design is a radical departure from the current Mississippi State flag.  However Stennis's proposal maintains certain elements of Southern Flags and the Confederacy.

First, the colors of the Mississippi's flag are maintained: red, white, and blue.  The central blue star in the center is an inverted Bonnie Blue star.  Finally the red stripes on the left and right copy the final version of the Confederate flag of 1865 and the States Right's flag of 1861 when Mississippi left the Union.  Likewise the central white field of the Stennis design has a tangential echo of the white field of the second and third versions of the Confederate flag.

New elements not of Confederate design is the circle of stars, which is more a kin to the Betsy Ross flag—which is now considered a racist flag of oppression by many.

Consequently the Stennis flag is a flag created to heal and bind the wounds between brothers.  It just so happens to carry an echo of the Confederacy, the American Revolution, and honor the current national flag of Canada—our northern brothers and sisters who lost to the Original Rebs of 1776.    

Flag for Circumference and Symbol: Teth via the Radius

The flag for Circumference is based upon a combination of maritime flag numbers for six, two and eight.  Since the ratio value for circumference is always 2π, which 6.28.  In the image on the bottom this is best explained.

The flag is composed of the colours black, white, blue, and red.  Since Circumference is associated with the number 6, the International Maritime Coded flag for Six composes the outer portion of the flag.  The second value is 2/10ths which one decimal place to the right.  Further the final number that has representation in this flag is 8/100ths which is represented by red long cross on white.  No further numbers are represented, since it would make the flag exceedingly complex.

Circumference also deserves its own symbol.  In this case the Phonecian letter tet or teth is used to symbolize circumference.  Coincidentally Teth also means wheel.

Funny thing about π is that its value is half a circle.  A full circle is thus 2π.  Likewise have a Teth equals π; or 2π equals 1Teth.

Since there is celebration for πday every March 14th, there should be celebrated day for the entire circle as represented by Teths-Day, which happens every June 28th.  June 28th also happens to be the birthday of first American Woman to with the Nobel Prize of Physics in 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972).  Also, another key mathematician born in 6/28 was Henri Lebesgue (June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941) who came up with the theory of integration. 

Funny thing is that π is an adored number, but it only represents half a circle.  So really on π-day you should only bake and eat ½ of a pie.  However on Teths-day (June 28) that is when you should bake or eat a circularly shaped item!  3.14 is so cool, but it is only half of the way around, you need to finish the circle at 6.28.  Every circle you play with be it a baseball, tennis ball, kickball, basketball, or frisbee is connected to a ratio of 6.28 on the any circle you touch.  Basically the distance to the rim of the circle to the center is 6.28 times the radius for any circle on a object.  

This makes more sense with trigonometry designations.  Because π/2 is only ¼th of a pie; in other words half of π is ¼ of a pizza pie; a whole pizza pie is made of of 2π. However,  ¼ of Teths is ¼ of an apple pie, and ½ of a Teths is ½ of any circular doughnut...Kapeesh?

Galaxy Express 999 - Train Guidance Flags 銀河鉄道 999 (スリーナイン)

 銀河鉄道 999 or rather the Galaxy Rail Line 999 was first broadcast on Earth in the year 1978.  It was made for Japanese audiences, but has subsequently reached millions beyond.

It is a Space Opera of a Star Trek kind from Japan, with its own unique spin.  The story centers on lucky Earth boy who obtained a coveted galactic rail pass for Inter Galactic Travel.  His mission is to get a planet where flesh and blood organisms can get a cybernetic body for free.  Accompanying our young hero is May-teru, メーテル who is wise and beautiful figure of guidance and protection.  She is loving, intelligent, and powerful.  When she has to fight, you'll find yourself backing and rooting for her 100%. 

Finally, there is an alien train conductor that looks like a Jawa from Star Wars.  No doubt this series was inspired by Lucas's work, and space based science fiction reached a boiling point across the world in 1977.

In one commercial break still shot you can see Tetsuro (星野 鉄郎) riding on a train. He is holding a solid yellow flag in his right hand and white flag in his left hand.

The train conductor is an enigmatic fellow.  Notice the glowing eyes like a Jawa.  The Jawa conductor is your average policy nub, however time and time again he is forced to show his human side to his companions across the cosmos.

The series was written by 松本零士, Matsumoto Reiji of Kurume, Fukuoka.  He also had a hand in directing Starblazers also known as Space Battleship Yamato -宇宙戦艦ヤマ. 


 

76 AD - Calibration Date for 76∞ Infinitum

Flag day 2020 brings into focus a flag dedicated to 76'∞ Infinitum.  This flag is the pre-septa' millennial flag for the year 76AD.  It is based upon the fusion of the 1776 American Betsy Ross flag, modern flag of Rome and ancient standards from the Roman Empire in the year 76.

The flag has stripes of golden yellow and red; the yellow stripes dominant.  In the canton is the Roman SPQR in an olive wreath.  SPQR means Senatus Populusque Romanus, which can be translated as: The Senate and People's Quorum of Rome.

Today, a quorum is the minimum number of persons needed for an assembly in order to conduct business.    Above the olive wreath is the Roman Eagle with cloud of 13 stars taken from the American Coat of Arms.  Thus this flag represents that the Dream of America is a timeless construct that was sleeping in the heart of Rome on June 14, 76.

Who knows what further dreams of the future will exist in the collective consciousness of 2176 or in the year 7676.  Will they remember the way and means of 1976 let alone 1076?  Will political correct language change so much that reading books from 2020 be banned, by the police or firehumans? Perhaps new political ideals will rise to surface that are hidden subliminally within our collective unconscious?

Although democracy is not an American invention, the seeds of modern America are partially derived from Ancient Rome.  Democracy as a governing body of persons is a timeless tradition practiced by all civilizations at one time or another in varying degrees.  However with the United States, the dedication to a democratic ideal rose to the surface as an honored and nearly sacred trust, that is to be maintained and protected.

The year 76 would have been a strange yet familiar world.  In the year 76, the second Pope, Pope Linus I passed away.  Linus was followed by Bronze Pope of Rome, Pope Anacletus I.    On the other side of the world the Jianchu Dynasty began.  In the Americas, the nations were in a dreamlike state of consciousness.  The triumphs and failures of the names of kings, queens, and country folk flowed in and out of consciousness, the details of 10,000 beautiful stories of struggle and glory were lost, until words were written.

Yet in another way, they were more awake to natural and primal forces of Nature.  Although the ancients of America could not read minds from the past, as we do today, they were better suited to read the unwritten word of Mother Nature and Father Sky.  Today, much of the modern mind is trapped in the overly precise and short sighted domain of words and symbolism.  Much has been forgotten on the way with the languages of  the Wind, Animals, Rocks, Earth and Heavens.

Nonetheless, this flag is dedicated to the spirits of 76'∞. 

NAVA 54 Vexibit—Startis Andredis: Septinsular Republic Flag

Startis Andredis presented a flag about the short lived Septinsular Republic that was trapped in the twilight zone between Russian and Ottoman Empires, in the after glow of revolutionary ambition stoked by Napoleon the Corsican.  The majority of the population was Greek, so in a manner of speaking it was the first precursor state to modern nation of Greece.

The flag looked much somewhat like the Republic of Venice.  After Napoleon's defeat this 'nation' became an autonomous zone from 1807 to 1815.  The British adopted these isles in 1815 and held sway until they proceeded to join Greece in 1864.

Andredis also showed us the Naval flag of the Septinsular Republic, which only had one ship.  The Naval Septinsular Republic flag had framing of yellow with an canton of St. Mark's lion on red within a blue field.