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Oh yes, Bowker, Baldwin, and Siegl; the founders. The origional logo was topless and not really an issue until they needed to use it on delivery trucks.
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Starbucks Founding
The original logo — which is still plastered all over that early Seattle branch — was actually brown, and depicted the mermaid as topless. The idea was that the two-tailed mermaid, who was based on an image found on a 16th century woodcut, was supposed to appear as seductive as the coffee itself. (Now i get it. SHE didn’t sell coffee, did she?)
The founders of Starbucks took the name from Moby Dick, the legendary novel by Herman Melville. In the book, Starbuck is the name of the first mate of the Pequod, Captain Ahab’s ship, and provides a calmer contrast to the obsessive nature of Ahab himself. Starbucks, however, was actually a second-choice name for the company. Gordon Bowker had actually wanted to call the company Pequod, but Bowker’s marketing partner Terry Heckler was unconvinced. Eventually, the two settled on Starbucks as a name, presumably having ruled out ‘Ahab’, ‘Ishmael’ and ‘Captain Boomer’. It’s for the best, really.
Melusine the thin tailed Mermaid
SO WAS MELUSINE A SERPENT OR A MERMAID?
“A MELUSINE is a typical illustration of a twin-tailed siren or mermaid.
This being is associated with numerous stories and legends, and is imbued with symbolic meaning in alchemy. The most common iteration of the siren is as Melusine, a creature from medieval legend.
Melusine (sometimes, Melusina) was, according to legend, beautiful woman with a disturbing tendency to transform into a serpent from the waist down while bathing; it is the discovery of this nature that triggers calamity.
Alchemal Siren (Melusine)
As the story is most often told, the maiden is discovered in the forest by Raymond, the Duke of Aquitaine, who begs her to marry him. She agrees, on condition that he never disturb her on a Saturday, when she bathes. Raymond eventually grows suspicious of his young wife, and spies on her. His shocked reaction to her true appearance reveals his betrayal to Melusine, who transforms herself into a dragon and departs in a fury anger (for trusting a guy). This story can be viewed as a metaphor for sexuality, and the contradictory duality of the female nature as viewed through medieval eyes.
The same dual-nature symbolism is also at work in alchemy, which employs the siren as a more benevolent emblem of enlightenment- the siren of the philosophers. Alchemically, the siren’s two tails represent unity of earth and water, body and soul- and the vision of Universal Mercury, the all-pervading anima mundi that calls out and makes the philosopher yearn to her.
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