HM King Marduke I

Well, it would appear that King Marduk is still among the living as of January 12th, 2008, and now has his own website which I had been expecting a while ago but he had some things he apparentlly needed to take care of first.

http://king-marduk.de/

Check out that Crest of his. Is that a Griffin or is it a Dragon?

He is also claiming the Antartica...

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Just as I suspected. They have his site blacklisted also - i.e. you can't join his forum cause he, supposedly, has blocked the screen name you might chose.

I have suspected that they have done the same on my own websites.

Here is a close up of the crest and, for now, I would have to say those are griffins.

Interestingly enough, it is possible that the legends of the griffin are actually a result of dinosaur bones - a dragon - according to Wiki and it is actually compared with the Dragon when the front legs are also those of a Lion as in his Crest above and here we have the Feathered Serpent Dragon or what the Scriptures would call the Sereph - a flying fiery serpent.

The Griffin was a common feature of "animal style" Scythian gold. It was said to inhabit the Scythian steppes that reached from the modern Ukraine to central Asia; there gold and precious stones were abundant and when strangers approached to gather the stones, the creatures would leap on them and tear them to pieces. The Scythians used giant petrified bones found in this area as proof of the existence of these griffins and thus keep outsiders away from the gold and precious stones.

Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist, has recently suggested that these "griffin bones" were actually dinosaur fossils, which are common in this part of the world. In The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, she makes tentative connections between the rich fossil beds around the Mediterranean and across the steppes to the Gobi Desert and the myths of griffins, centaurs and archaic giants originating in the Classical world. Mayor draws upon similarities that exist between the prehistoric Protoceratops skeletons of the steppes leading to the Gobi Desert, and the legends of the gold-hoarding griffin told by nomadic Scythians of the region.

Parker says, of the Griffin, "It may be represented as without wings, and then with rays or spikes of gold proceeding from several parts of its body. Sometimes it has two long straight horns. The term Alce is given, as if used by writers for a kind of griffin, but no example can be quoted."

But the term alce is rare in modern heraldry reference books; this wingless, spiked variant is almost invariably called the male griffin - although this must be a very unusual case of dimorphism because, as Stephen Friar puts it, "both creatures possess the usual male attributes".

The male griffin itself is quite rare. It occurs as the dexter supporter (to the right of the bearer of the shield/ to the left of the viewer) in the arms of St. Leger entered at the visitation of Devon and Cornwall 1531 (College of Arms G 2, folio 24v) and as the supporter of the banner of a mid-16th-century Knight of the Garter in College of Arms Vincent 152 (pp 107-8). [12] In the late 19th century, Sir Henry William Dashwood was granted supporters: two male griffins Argent [white] gorged with a collar flory counter flory.[15] One was also recently granted as a crest in the arms of the City of Melfort, Saskatchewan (image).

The term Keythong is rarer still. The definitive instance comes from James Planché, who notes, under the badge of the Earl of Ormonde (first creation) as recorded in a College of Arms manuscript from the reign of Edward IV, the single contemporary reference: "A pair of keythongs." Planche's footnote: "The word is certainly so written, and I have never seen it elsewhere. The figure resembles the Male Griffin, which has no wings, but rays or spikes of gold proceeding from several parts of his body, and sometimes with two long straight horns. ­­Vade [see] Parker's Glossary, under Griffin."

At the end of the 20th century the term keythong began to be taken up enthusiastically among adherents of heraldry - at least, among members of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

The Opinicus is a heraldic beast that differs from the griffin principally in that all four of its legs are those of a lion. It is typically shown with the short tail of a camel and sometimes with a longer neck like a camel's (but still feathered).
However, Parker says, "[it] is allied more nearly to the dragon in the forepart and in the wings; but it has a beaked head and ears, something between the dragon and the griffin. The hind part and the four legs are probably intended to represent those of a lion, but the tail is short, and is said to be that of the camel."[14]
It was granted as a crest in 1561 to City of London's Company of Barber Surgeons (now the Worshipful Company of Barbers)[3][18], but is otherwise rare in British heraldry. A modern example can be found in the arms of Jonathan Munday: Azure an opinicus rampant Or armed Gules. (Note that it is described as rampant rather than segreant.)

Epimachus - equipped for battle. A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.

http://www.greengonzo.com/dictionary/Epimechus.html

The Opinicus is a unique creature sometimes seen in the Heraldic art of the Middle Ages. It is described as having a long, serpentine like body, the powerful clawed paws and muscular legs of a lion, the head, neck and wings of an eagle and the short tail of a camel. The Opinicus were said to be born without wings which reportedly develop over the course of the creature’s life.
The Opinicus was said to stalk the city streets of London after dark, swooping down from the blackened night sky of the British Isles, however it is not thought to harm humans. In fact the Opinicus was thought to be a shy and nocturnal herbivore, often encountered by the homeless as the animal swooped out of the sky to feed on left over fruits and vegetables often found in the alleys behind markets.
During the Middle Ages, Arab traders where said to have deceived pillaging crusaders by giving them Coconuts and antelope horns claiming that they were the eggs and horns of the Opinicus. They where also thought to have told occupying European forces tales of the Opinicus being able to swoop down out of the darkness and snatch animals as large as baby elephants in their mighty talon.

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/opinicus.php

He apparently is utilizing the symbols of the area of territory that he laid claim to in Europe where the griffin is used in about three or four crests and the one from Genoa, Italy is very similar to the crest above. Now, compare that with the Dragon of Ancient Babylon. Color those Griffins in Red and Gold and add some wings to the Dragon and you would have just about a perfect match.

Heraldic Griffins :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin

Genoa, Italy :

Dragon of Babylon :

Now, this is all important for a couple of reasons and the first is that the Roman Empire ceased using the Dragon as its symbol some time after the days of Julius and they started using the Double Headed Eagle when Esau took over the Roman Empire (see my post in the Chronology Section on the Times of Esau for the details).
The point is that the Antichrist will honor the Dragon and lead the entire world into its worship so whatever Heraldic Crest he choses to represent his empire it will possitively include the Dragon and I would say, as of right now, that the Griffin Qualifies in this regard.

As far as the rest of his crest - I'm not sure about the 'demi' chevron on his crest but if you stand back it makes his entire crest look like an eye - as in the all seeing eye, etc.

The last major symbol that I need to look at as to how he understands it is the Maltese Cross at the bottom. You can see he may have patterned his crest from Genoa, but there are definate noticable differences.

One of the reasons he chose this is because Fire Men use the Maltese Cross and he was a fireman for awhile out here in California some time ago.

The Maltese Cross

For the purposes of this article, the Maltese Cross is defined as, "a cross of made from four straight lined pointed arrowheads , meeting at their points, with the ends of the arms consisting of indented 'v's".

Given this description, no seal, painting, or drawing which concerns the Order, that is not anachronistic (i.e. produced later, to represent an earlier period), before the mid-late 1500s, portrays the now familiar eight pointed cross.

http://www.orderstjohn.org/osj/cross.htm

Anyways, before I forget, I was talking to someone on the GLP forum awhile back - can't find the thread now - who wanted me to think he was Cain and, at that time, he had not left any trace anywhere since the assaination attempt in 05 so I kinda doubted it was him and figured that Lamech had Cain in custody somewhere.
Well the guy said that he had to pay a ransum to get out of jail which, again, I didn't believe but now I'm thinking that this could have been him and they he did have to pay a ransum to the Lavender Lunitic to get out of jail and he promptly went and claimed the Antarctica just like he bagged a chunk of Europe.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message503969/pg1