Finally, This month's entry for an ongoing contest.
This time, they provided the images and we weren't allowed to manipulate them in any way (except adding the caption).
I got the idea for this one from an
excerpt from the book "
Zu?i Fetiches" by
Frank Hamilton Cushing:
In ancient times, while yet all beings belonged to one family, P?-shai-aŋ-k'ia, the father of our sacred bands, lived with his children (disciples) in the City of the Mists, the center of the Medicine societies of the world. There he was guarded on all sides by his six warriors, the prey gods; toward the North by the Mountain Lion, Long Tail; toward the West by the Bear, Clumsy Foot; toward the South by the Badger, Black Mark Face; toward the East by the Wolf, Hang Tail; above by the Eagle, White Cap; and below by the Mole.
Then said P?-shai-aŋ-k'ia to the Mountain Lion, "Long Tail, thou art stout of heart and strong of will. Therefore give I unto thee and unto thy children forever the mastership of the gods of prey, and the guardianship of the great Northern World (for thy coat is of yellow), that thou guard from that quarter the coming of evil upon my children of men, that thou receive in that quarter their messages to me, that thou become the father in the North of the sacred medicine orders all, that thou become a Maker of the Paths (of men's lives).
The rest is my interpretation
That's it for today.
Peace,
Lurker.