Pantheon rampant (Period)

The pantheon is an heraldic monster with the body of a hind, the bushy tail of a fox, cloven hooves, and completely strewn with mullets or estoiles.  It’s a period charge, dating from 1531 as the crest of Baynham [Dennys 159].  One period manuscript gives its “proper” tinctures as gules, with argent stars; but no proper tinctures are acknowledged for the pantheon in Society heraldry.

In terms of heraldic design, the Society treats the pantheon’s mullets or estoiles as an integral part of the monster, not as a layer of surcharges on the pantheon’s body.

The pantheon does not seem to have a default posture; the illustration shows a pantheon rampant.

Jessica of the Old Forest bears:  Argent, two pantheons combatant azure, mullety argent.

Erlwin Nikolaus vom Schwarzwald bears:  Per saltire pean and Or, a pantheon rampant gules, mullety of six points Or.

Katerina von Brandenberg bears:  Per pale purpure and argent, two pantheons combatant mullety of six points all counterchanged.