Naarmamo 10

[linda_joyce]

I discovered my God daughter's stash of felt tips, so here is what I did with it. I've realised I'm not good at colouring up to the lines.

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very cool and colourful! It reminds me of a garuda.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

You're right, I had to go and see what a garuda was but it is very like the first picture I got. I entered book of Kells into Google images and a black and white drawing of this beast came up so he's definitely a Celtic monster but since the Celts are now thought to be of Eurasian origin there could be a connection.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I believe the garuda goes right back to Sanskrit and the Aryans who settled Persia and India, and they seem to be a point of origin for many cultures. Don't quote me on that though; I'm just going by how many basic Sanskrit words ended up as common words right across Europe and Asia.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

reminds me a bit of a native american symbol

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, and there could be cross contamination. There is a Welsh Legend that one of our heroes(the name escapes me at the moment)who sailed West and discovered the Isles of the Blessed. Some of his crew stayed there when he came back.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I have looked him up and it was Prince Madoc or more correctly
Madog ab Owain Gwynedd
and he was a was a 12th century prince

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

thanks for looking that up...

Just did a search on wikipedia, very interesting legend. Had never heard of that before.

[(Anonymous)]

Funny how Celtic and Norse stuff is very similar. When I was with Garienos we went to Sutton Hoo again. The place is covered in birds like that.

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

whoops sorry - that was me up there BTW, this machine doesn't log me into LJ automatically when I first log on. As I am now broadband and leave it on for days I tend to forget to log back in if I turn the thing off.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

No worries I recognised you from Garienos' name. Cross contamination perhaps, were the Norse men around when the Celts were top dogs in the UK?

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

I would say they were all following a sort of dark age fashion statement.

When they recentlu did that DNA thing to find out about the make-up of the population of the UK they found the'Vikings' who came to Garienos' part of the world were actually Danes so would have mixed and traded with the Celts in Europe anyway. I think the only true Scandinavian vikings settled in Scotland and the Isle of Man

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I like the expression on his face. He looks very upset about the knots around his neck. :^)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

He does look a little irritated. I get these expressions totally by accident.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It takes so little in a sketch to change the whole expression, one little line can sometimes turn it upside down.

[javahound07.livejournal.com]

Neat! :)