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In Great Admiration of the body of work done by one of my Personal Heroes Mister Aleister Crowley and in Total Inspiration of the Famous Picture of the Great Beast Himself ( www.energyenhancement.org/aleister11.jpg ) I decided to do My own Version of that Palpable Pagan`s Portrait !
The tuatara is a reptile endemic to New Zealand which, though it resembles most lizards, is actually part of a distinct lineage, order Sphenodontia. The two species of tuatara are the only surviving members of its order, which flourished around 200 million years ago. Their most recent common ancestor with any other extant group is with the squamates (lizards and snakes). For this reason, tuatara are of great interest in the study of the evolution of lizards and snakes, and for the reconstruction of the appearance and habits of the earliest diapsids (the group that also includes birds and crocodiles).
Tuatara are greenish brown, and measure up to 80 cm (32 in) from head to tail-tip with a spiny crest along the back, especially pronounced in males. Their dentition, in which two rows of teeth in the upper jaw overlap one row on the lower jaw, is unique among living species. They are further unusual in having a pronounced parietal eye, dubbed the "third eye", whose current function is a subject of ongoing research. They are able to hear although no external ear is present, and have a number of unique features in their skeleton, some of them apparently evolutionarily retained from fish. Although tuatara are sometimes called "living fossils", recent taxonomic and molecular work has shown that they have changed significantly since the Mesozoic era.
The name "tuatara" derives from the Māori language, and means "peaks on the back". As with many other Māori loanwords, the plural form is now generally the same as the singular in formal New Zealand English usage. "Tuataras" remains common in less formal speech, particularly among older speakers. The tuatara has been classified as an endangered species since 1895 (the second species, S. guntheri, was not recognised until 1989). Tuatara, like many of New Zealand's native animals, are threatened by habitat loss and introduced predators like the Polynesian Rat (Rattus exulans). They were extinct on the mainland, with the remaining populations confined to 32 offshore islands, until the first mainland release into the heavily fenced and monitored Karori Sanctuary in 2005.
During routine maintenance work at Karori Sanctuary in late 2008, a tuatara nest was uncovered, with a hatchling found the following autumn. This is thought to be the first case of tuatara successfully breeding on the New Zealand mainland in over 200 years, outside of captive rearing facilities.
Info from Wikipedia
Seen at Invercargill Museum
"Al-Burāq (Arabic: البُراق al-Burāq "lightning"), is a miraculous steed from Islamic tradition, described as a creature from the heavens which transported the prophets. The most commonly told story is how in the 7th century, the Buraq carried the prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and back during the Isra and Mi'raj or "Night Journey", which is the title of one of the chapters of the Qur'an."
We launched a Kickstarter.com project. Check it out! We would greatly appreciate your support and donations to help take my newest body art photography series "Earth Goddess" to an entirely new level. Check out the video, and spare some change if you are excited by the direction and intentions of the project. The funding goal is a total of $1000. But every donation counts, even if it’s one buck! Also, please do share the link with friends, pass it around! Thanks so much!! Peace and Love.
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shot of my work table right now with some newly finished art peices that i have been making to sell at the local art fairs and on etsy.
they are pen and ink drawings over acrylic
Blogged here: lucidrose.blogspot.com/2010/03/plans-are-made-to-be-broke...
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"Sun+Moon" © Symeon Nostrakis
UV blacklight fluorescent & glow in the dark phosphorescent poster
printed from my original large scale mural painting
Tripleview Art ™ posters, postcards, t-shirts, hoodies, backdrops:
3 distinct views and colour effects in 1 picture! (3-in-1)
- bright colours in normal light
- fluorescent in UV / black light
- phosphorescent glow in the dark
Doodles from my imagination, before work. Work before work, in my art journal, today.
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Two art pieces created using this pencil drawing are:
"Magus"
[ vimeo.com/10573987 ] (<-- video details)
&
"Robes of Infinity" ( <-- blog link w/ art photo and discourse) {medecor.blogspot.com/2010/02/featured-art-of-infinity-by-...}
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