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Equator Crossing

A RECORD-OF-SERVICE meaning: the motif states that its wearer has crossed the Equator. Attested by the National Maritime Museum.
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

1 attested1 source · T1

Registry entry only

The corpus has no enrichment row for this concept (symbols), so it carries its label, description, aliases and provenance and nothing further. No visual traits or cautions are recorded — not because they failed to load, but because that data does not exist in the corpus.

Provenance

1 resolved

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    Tier 1

    Royal Museums Greenwich

    National Maritime Museum page. Verbatim: the word 'tattoo' is "derived from the Tahitian word 'tatau', meaning to mark"; a pig and a rooster tattooed on the feet were "said to protect a seaman from drowning"; a full-rigged ship, an anchor, a dragon and a shellback turtle each record a specific voyage or crossing. Establishes protective (apotropaic) intent inside the tattoo domain.

    museum · retrieved 2026-08-28

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Can symbolize · 1

  • ← incomingShellback TurtleMotifThin
    strength 1.00researched

    National Maritime Museum, verbatim: "A shellback turtle shows the sailor has crossed the Equator". A record-of-service meaning: it asserts something true about the wearer rather than an abstract quality, which is why its strength is 1.0 where interpretive edges in this batch sit at 0.5.