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The
Lábaro is a modern interpretation of an ancient military standard (called
Cantabrum) of the
Cantabri people from pre-Roman
Iberum. It consists of a purple cloth on which there's what would be called in heraldry a "
saltire voided throughout" made up of curved lines, with knobs at the end of each line.
Etymologically, the word comes from
(p)lab- which means
to speak in a number of
Celtic languages, many of which have derivatives. For example, in
Welsh llafar means "speech", "language", "voice". Ancient
Cornish and
Breton have
lavar, "word", and ancient
Irish has
labrad: "language", "speech". In
Latin, the lábaro became known as the
Cantabrian Labarum.
Looking for supporting to his racist theories, the Basque Sabino Arana invented another ethimology for Labaro in the XIX century. He proposed that Labaro came from the Basque words "Lau buru" meaning "four heads", lau "four" and buru "heads", "four ends" or "four summits". Even he designed a new triskelion with four knobs. That is quite forced since the real
Lábaro has four open arcs and no heads. Also there are many archeological stones with the
Lábaro symbol in Cantabria regium while no one in the Basque regium. There are also several triskelion in the Cantabria regium but only with five arms.
This type of standard and its variants were well distributed among the
Celtic peoples, as is demonstrated by the
triumphal arch of
Orange, France. Its display is connected with the ancient Celtic symbol of the
triskelion, and its religious symbolism is related to
sun worship.
Through the
Cantabrian Wars and the conquering of the Cantabri by the
Romans in
19 AD, the
Roman legions adopted from them the
solar symbolism of the twin crosses and lunar symbols, probably by the incorporation of Cantabrian auxiliary troops, or for the mere pride of having conquered the fierce people after years of war.
Today, certain social and political groups in modern Spanish autonomous community of
Cantabria advocate the use of this ancient standard instead of the
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