Meaning and Mythological Imagery in WingMakers' Paintings
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چکیده
The imagery within the reproduced mythographic WingMakers' Chamber 17 Painting is interpreted. The picture illustrates, in articulate detail and vivid color, the WingMakers' philosophy and mythology of the metaphysical and/or biogenetic transformation of the individual. Standard mythology publications, and the latest findings in brain neurology are cited and discussed along with comparisons to Buddhist mythological iconography, and Amerindian rock art images and meanings―including that of the anthropomorphic shaman.
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