Showing posts with label feathers. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Garuda: A Guardian Spirit

This carving is, say, 4 feet wide and 3 feet high. It's from Bali, but hangs on an outside wall a couple of blocks from me. It's a guardian spirit. That's why it looks so fierce, to scare evil away:

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There are situations where this is good advice:

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In my experience such experiences rarely happen in cyberspace. But who knows what'll become of cyberspace when the Glorious GNF goes off. Gotta' be prepared.

Whoops:

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Looks like they didn't have a garuda and someone failed to lift the plow.