Aug
28
2010
bird-men (and women).
Since my woodpecker-monkey-man dream, this sort of imagery has been up, up, up.
This does not include any of the Egyptian bird-headed gods or shamanic bird masks/cloaks/headdresses.
Page from Bittersweet Dreamsyrup for Melancholics, by Henrik Drescher
Chick-man?
Bird-man by Clive Barker
Bird-man street art
Bird-man rock painting, Easter Island
Anzu, Zu, or Imdugud: Sumerian Bird-Man
Bird-man of Lascaux
Tangata manu paintings
Maori wood carving
Toltec fresco
Garuda, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
Pre-Columbian bird-man
Owl-man, unsourced
Aboriginal drawings at Eagles Ranch, Australia
Nazca line bird-figure, Peru
Neo-Assyrian bird-headed god from Nimrud
Sirens seducing Odysseus
Pre-dynastic terracotta Egyptian goddess
And that’s not touching Horus, Thoth, etc…
Max Ernst’s “Attirement of the Bride”:
http://www.atelier-rc.com/BirthdateYear/04.02-Ernst.html