Coat of arms of the Hessian society of aether voyages

Last August after working on the coat of arms for Frankfurt and Kassel I also did the one for Hesse. But I wanted to give you some rest between all these emblems - and forgot it. Now it comes back to focus.

But let us start wit the original coat of arms of Hessia.

Quelle: Wikipedia

The Lion is nice but these red-withe stripes give me the creeps. Well let’s try a cog to fix it.

I came to a shape which don’t fit the common Wappen shape but nicely goes with the Tartschen (sorry german only, the english version don't give the relevant information) shape.