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I suspect the motto is actually “tempestati parendum” meaning “storms must be prepared for”. A quick Google search reveals it to have been the motto of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361 - 1419). His coat of arms displayed a storm tossed galleon. Here is an image from the Rijksmuseum collection in Amsterdam.Lopende lynx / Schip op zee, anonymous, after Aegidius Sadeler, 1666 - RijksmuseumThe shield above his in the Amsterdam engraving is the emblem of Charles 4th of Luxembourg whose device is a lynx with the motto “nullius pavet occursus” - “he fears no encounter” which has been adopted by the US 7th Air Defense Artillery.

Ancient Arab historians have preserved the tradition that some time in the distant past the coastlands of the Red Sea and the environs of Mecca were devastated by a great catastrophe.The dating of this memorable destruction has great significance for biblical studies.Several Arab historians have preserved this tradition of a terrible destruction.The account handed down by Abu,l Faraj in his book of songs is as follows:The tradition reports that the Amalekites violated the privileges of the sacred territory and that the almighty God sent against them ants of the smallest variety which forced them to desert Mecca.Afterwards the lord sent drought and famine and showed them the clouded sky at the horizon.They marched without rest toward those clouds which they saw near them,but were not able to reach them;they were pursued by the drought which was always at their heels.The lord lead them to their native land,where he sent against them toufan—a deluge[trans.F.Fresnel,journal Asiatique,3rd series,http://vol.VI 1838,p.207].The same catastrophe is also recorded by Mas’udi.The children of Hadoram[Gen.10:27]—Jorham in Arabic—were among the first who had settled in the vicinity of Mecca.Here they lived in proximity to Amalekites and lesser tribes,until an impetuous torrent swept them all away in a single night[Mas’udi,LesPrairies d’or,trans.barbeir de Myenard and pavet de Courteille,vol.II,Paris,1965,p.359].Quoting the ancient poet al-Harith,a descendant of the few Jorhamite survivors.Mas’udi records the tradition that Ishmael,the son of Abraham by Hagar[Gen.16:15],settled in Mecca where he married the daughter of Modad,a Jorhamite.After Ishmael’s death,his son Nebajoth briefly ruled the city.Note that this event took place a little over 300 years after the death of Ishmael.there are just over 300 years from that date until the Exodus[Gen.17:24,25;25:17;Ex.12:40].What the Arabs experienced was most likely nothing other than some of the effects of the catastrophes and plagues which devastated Egypt!The impetuous torrent which is known by the name of Idam[fury]could have been the huge tidal wave generated by the collapse of the waters after the Israelites had crossed through the Red Sea.Imagine the force generated by two five-mile long walls of water.Preceded by a violent storm[Ex.14:21,24,25].this tsunami raced up and down the narrow land locked sea,wreaking havoc along the low-lying coast.Whole coastal tribes were swept away.Even Mecca,which is on the edge of the plain,lay in ruins.Survivors were either absorbed among the other descendants of Joktan and of Ishmael,or else dispersed abroad.Thus the flood that engulfed Pharaoh’s host may indeed still live in the memory of the Arabs as a very real cataclysmic event.