The Creatures
Man-Flower
Here is a typical aspect of Maya art, turning a natural object
into an anthropomorphic composite, here the idealized head of an
eternally youthful male issues from a flower (or, a flower issues
from the man's neck, depending on your point of reference).Detail
of a rollout of a polychrome Mayan vase from Peten, Guatemala (Click at the picture for full size)
Bird-Man
The famous birdman from Orongo-Easter Island Rock-Art . What this
mean? As with most other areas of the world, there is no simple
(or single) answer for the motifs on the rocks of Easter Island.
Some appear to refer to status, some to clan identification;
others were offerings or supplications; and some marked the
location of special rites and ceremonies. We have connected a few
Easter Island petroglyphs to ancient myths. In other words, in
one way or the other, the motifs related to the esoteric and
religious aspects of the societyre(Click at the picture for full size)
quently-askert
is "what does it mean?"One of the most frequently-asked
questions about rock art is "ther areas of the world, there
is no simple (or single) d ceremonies. We have connected a few
Easter Islandpetroglyphs to ancient myths. In other words, in one
way or the other, the motifs related to the esoteric and
religious aspects of the society
The hybrid
This whistle has features of both animal and man. Is it a hybrid
being? A human being wearing a costume? North of Mexico City,
Mexico, pre-Columbian
The Rooster Man
N.W. Iran. , 8th - 7th century B.C. Strange ancient art
from Iran. Fantastic creature? Deity ? Represent some kind of
ancient strange sexuality? To give one example of how complicated
sexual identity is, let us look at the chicken.
Periodically a male chicken, rooster, will be compelled to act
like a hen. He will try and "steal" a hen's eggs so
that he can care for them. Since most hen's are protective of
their eggs the rooster normally has to settle for nursing small
rocks. In this case the rooster has clearly taken on the
identity (at least in his mind) that he is a hen. A more
astounding example is that of hens (female chickens). Hens
have two sexual organs or gonads (like humans, where men have two
testicles and women have two ovaries). The right gonad is
differentiated, meaning that it specifically has developed into
an ovary and this is what the hen uses in sexual
reproduction. Interestingly, the left gonad is non
differentiated and is not used unless the right gonad becomes
damaged. If the right gonad becomes damaged, the left organ
will change into either an ovary or a testes. Meaning that the
hen may remain a hen or it will become a fully functioning male
chicken, or rooster !
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