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a fancy stick that somehow decides who gets to boss around millions.
means A ceremonial staff or rod carried by a monarch as a symbol of sovereign authority.
from From Greek 'skeptron,' a staff or stick to lean on (from a root meaning 'to prop' or 'support'), which passed into Latin as 'sceptrum' and on through Old French into English. The same image of a leaning-stick lurks behind the word 'skeptic' — though there the prop is for the mind, not the hand.
- origin
- Comes from Greek skeptron, a staff to lean on
- power symbol
- Pharaohs held two: a crook and a flail
- british crown
- Sovereign's Sceptre holds the 530-carat Cullinan I diamond
- divine claim
- Zeus and Agamemnon both ruled via sacred staffs
- word twist
- A skeptic and a scepter share that doubting Greek root
for instance
scepter of tutankhamun — golden crook and flail found in the boy pharaoh's tomb in the valley of the kings, 1922
scepter of charlemagne — carolingian imperial scepter with eagle head, housed in the hofburg palace, vienna