National Symbols Act, 1967

[Nectorist 12871]

National Symbols Act

Passed in the Assembly of Garmont in the year 1967

Issued and averred by

Her Majesty

Atstana de

Regne Petrère

1967

 

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PREAMBLE

In maintaining a nation and cultural identity, symbols drawing upon our history are absolutely necessary to codify and promote. Given the propensity of our people to need to move continents every few generations, the physical history of our past homes are often lost, leaving us only with the written record, collective memory, and scant physical artifacts of the past. In establishing national symbols, we may point to a time and age that may be forgotten by the Petrans of the future, but lives eternally in our art and culture.

 

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Section I:

On the national symbols of the Commonwealth of the Petra

 

I) The national symbols of the Commonwealth of the Petra are as following;

a) Motto - “Petra, Flowing Water! Ave! Ave!”

b) Song - Petra, Flowing Water by Arnaud Halcourt

c) Seal - Seal of the Commonwealth of the Petra

d) Bird - Swan; as the most common inhabitant of the old River Petra

e) Mammal - Mule; as the trusty steed of the original knights of the Round Circle as they traversed the Upper Petra

f) Flower - Cornflowers; as the flower that bloomed most beautifully and elegantly during the first spring after the Petran Civil War, planted by Archduchess Renilde’s own hand

g) Tree - Willow; as the tree which hunches by the banks of the river, providing shade for all those who traverse along it

h) Hero - Dame Catherine Novellen of Furnestock; as one of the Republic’s founders and the guarantor of its security, stability, and prosperity through several decades

i) Fish - Trout; in accordance with the Trout Vote

 

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Her Royal Majesty, Catherine I, By the Grace of GOD, Queen of the Commonwealth of the Petra, Marquise de Val d’Estenou, Countess of Temesch and Moere, Baroness of Garmont, Valfleur, Vallagne-en-Petra, Eagles Peak, Brasca, and of the Phoenixspire, Protector of the Meadows, Defender of Liberty