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Registered:
The
International Register
of Arms, 2nd October
2025. Registration No.
0758 (Vol.5).
Arms:
Per
pale Azure and Sable,
a wheel between three
bees volant in pall
heads to centre Or.
Crest:
Upon a
Helm with a Wreath of
the liveries a thyrsus
Or, pendant therefrom
a hunting-horn Sable,
garnished Or, stringed
Azure, all between a
stag's attires
Or. Mantled
to dexter Azure
doubled Or and to
sinister Sable
doubled Or.
Motto:
Si Sapis,
Sis Apis.
Badge:
Three
hawks bells in pall
their rings interlaced
Or.
Assumed:
U.S.A.
December 2024.
Illustrated
by Artur Oliveira Gomes.
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The
Bees
represent
honey, which
is a plausible
guess for what
the family
name
originally
meant. Huning
is also
phonemically
very similar
to the word
for honey in
most Germanic
languages.
They represent
the
industrious
members of the
family,
exemplified by
Johan Waldo
Huning, who
used a Model T
and a towable
grain mill
that he took
to the local
farms offering
grain milling
services to
build the
funds to
acquire
natural gas
and oil leases
which he then
built a
fortune out
of.
For the
armiger, the
bees take what
they need to
survive
without
harming the
beauty and
vitality of
their source
of sustenance,
according to
the Buddhist
tradition.
Taken from the
arms of Melle
and Osnabrück
in Germany,
the wheel
reflects the
armiger's
family origins
and are
symbolic of
transportation,
successful
journeys and
expeditions,
representing
the family’s
successful
journey to the
US from
Germany, and
their
continued
spread across
the US. It
reflects the
family
connection and
history with
cars starting
with Waldo's
Model T, but
also his
policy to buy
each of his
three sons a
car as long as
it cost no
more that $50.
Naturally the
cars were
never in
working order
when
purchased,
that his sons
then had to
tear down and
rebuild from
the ground up.
That tradition
continued to
younger
generations,
though the
maximum price
tag went up
some. For the
armiger, the
wheel will
always be
emblazoned
with eight
spokes and
represents the
Dharma Wheel
and the Eight
Fold Path of
Buddhism.
The Hunting
Horn is a
reference to
the fact that
the armiger's
family name is
very often
mis-spelled
as, or
mistaken for,
Hunting, so it
is half
canting and
half an inside
joke for the
armiger's
family.
The Thyrsus is
a more
personal
reference, and
an obvious nod
to
Dionysus/Bacchus,
thanks to the
applicant’s
links to the
alcoholic
beverage
industry,
having worked
at a
distillery for
several years
and having
many close
friends/connections
in the
industry/enthusiast
community. It
is also a more
general
reference to
finding
pleasure in
life.
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The
Stag's Attires
are another
nod to the
Huning/Hunting
mistake
mentioned
above. For the
armiger, they
represent the
linked
Buddhist
concepts of
karma and
reincarnation,
because of the
way a stag
renews its
antlers.
The hawks'
bells on the
badge
represent
bells more
generally, of
which there
are many
around the
armiger's
home. Bells
are believed
by some to
ward off evil
spirits or to
purify the
environment in
the area their
ringing can be
heard; in that
sense they
represent
peacefulness.
In the
buddhist
tradition they
represent
wisdom, and in
that sense
they are an
allusion to
the motto
which can be
translated as
“To be wise,
be (like) a
bee”.
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