What are the symbols that symbolize pirates, and what are the symbols of pirates?

Anchors, skeletons, knives, the steering wheel of the ship.

Symbols and flags.

In all eras and in every country, ships have hung a variety of different signs on their masts to indicate their national or other attributes - small flags, pennants, large flags, military flags.

Pirates are no exception in this regard. They have hoisted their flags on their masts throughout the ages. There are all kinds of flags, but they don't have a very strict function, so it is impossible to make a clear classification of them.

Nor can we say with great precision what flags the pirates of the Caribbean Sea put on their masts, and what flags the pirates of the Mediterranean hung on them. Anyone who tries to determine which pirates are flying which flags (as if he knew) will be utterly disappointed.

The so-called "Happy Roger" – the flag with the skull and skeleton painted – is Caribbean'The "merchant" flag of pirates or pirates operating in other seas in the late Middle Ages. However, the latest scientific writings call into question this fact, which seems to have been fully proven. Now, from ancient texts, it has been established that the pirates of Cilicia raised flags with skulls and skeletons painted on the masts of their ships in order to frighten their enemies - that is, symbols of death.

In this way, it turned out that the "Happy Roger", who has been praised more than once, has a profound origin.

However, this symbol is not the only mark of pirates of all ages and peoples. For example, Roman pirates were happy to decorate their own sails with the scepter of the god Mercury. In the polytheistic symbols of the era, it was a scepter with two snakes entwined around it.

The scepter is the symbol of Mercury, the **god of Rome, and he also blesses the clever ghosts, **, and thieves. Thus, it was not for nothing that the Roman pirates chose Mercury as their patron god. But they did so without forgetting the other gods - Athena's owl, Zeus's eagle, and Diana's deer as pirate icons.

There is also a flag with a skeleton holding an hourglass in one hand and a heart pierced by a dart spear still dripping in the other.

There is evidence that some pirates used white flags painted with black skulls and skeletons, with an inscription underneath the motif: "For God and Freedom".

No matter what flag the pirates hoist on their ships - black, white, or red flags, they are always the same flag of death.

It becomes a legend, from which many conventional elements are derived. The pirate symbol, which is familiar to Westerners, is also very interesting.

Pirate flag: When a pirate raises the flag, it declares war. The flags of the pirates, the different factions used to use many patterns such as scepters, dragons, black crows, goddesses, owls, etc., which are basically representatives of the protector gods, and I don't know when they began to be unified on the image of a skeleton, which means to declare death. The most popular style is the black flag with a skeleton and crossed bones, which is called "Happy Roger".

The pirate ship does not keep flying the flag, but only after approaching the merchant ship, it suddenly raises the flag in demonstration, and some factions will raise another red flag, which means that if they do not give in, they will be washed in blood.

Wooden legs, hooks and eye patches.

Physical disability seems to be one of the symbols of piracy, the miserable robbery life and poor medical conditions, so that pirates often take part of the body as a means of cutting off when they are seriously injured, but this disability has gradually become a cool mark in the legend, wooden legs, a prosthetic hand made of hooks, and a black cover for one eye, which has become the iconic image of pirates in people's minds.

Gorgeous costumes. The "Black Baron" is the archetype of such figures, who always wear upturned black hats, red double-breasted gowns, and ribbons of coats of arms. Of course, sometimes the speech has an aristocratic flavor. Captain Sparrow, the protagonist of the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean", is the irony of this character, he is also cool, but he is hippie, and his accent is deliberately rustic.

This kind of humor is difficult for viewers who are not familiar with pirate culture.

Parrots are very strange, many pirate stories have a parrot as a pet, it is very impractical to have such a pet in the sea life, this image comes from the pirate literary classic "Treasure Island", this parrot must also be very poor, a little snobbish.

Treasure In almost all pirate stories, the treasure is hidden on a small island, and this is true in real history. Many of the pirate-infested islands are either particularly secluded or particularly suitable for attacking hostile fleets because of their geographical location, and today these islands seem to be particularly beautiful, and many of them have become tourist attractions. In 1984, a large amount of treasure hidden by pirates was discovered on the island of Blancina in Venezuela, and Venezuela** decided to use these treasures to build a national tourist facility.