Siren (heraldic)
See also: Siren
The siren is a imaginary heraldic Figure correspondent with his “modern” image of marinaded woman (with cut in front). It is always represented floating on a sea or a wave. In general, she combs herself with a hand by looking herself in a mirror that she holds of the other. If it makes another thing, the blasonner is needed (cf blazon of Warsaw, carrying a siren with the naturalness armed with a gold sword and a shield with same). When it appears on a sea, one makes mention of it by describing the Armes.
Opposite: of azure to the gold siren on a money wave
One sees few Sirens in the Armoiries; one sees some more frequently in the external ornaments, like Cimier and supports.
When the Siren appears in a tank, it is named Merlusine. There are Sirens which have a double tail, which one expresses while blasonnant.
An alternative of frequent representation is the siren with tail doubles holding an end of this double tail in each hand. But one does not find it blasonnée like such (“ with double tail ”), sometimes wrongly like “ mélusine ”, the latter traditionally very similar to the siren with the comb and mirror.
In short:
- the siren with the mirror and the siren with double tail seem to be two representations of the same heraldic symbol, and thus being blasonnant with the identical one;
- the siren with the mirror and the mélusine have very similar representations, but are two distinct heraldic symbols;
- the use of Mélusine for the siren with double tail does not have any serious base and thus seems abusif.
See too
- the sirens in the Greek Mythology.
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