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According to many in Australia the world as we know it now was created by a giant snake called gorialla . Ah just a bit of fun . This clip was filmed on the northern beaches of Sydney . Not our place , but yes very beautiful there .
Nice video and nice story. Snakes and turtles play a role in various stories throughout the world. I happen to collect art from Bali and i have 3 wonderful woodcarvings combining Vishnu, Garuda, 2 snake-like creatures and a turtle. Unfortunately i can't include a picture but this one gives you an idea. The turtle is the one at the bottom, carying the others wile being covered by the snakes bodies (as a result you can only see it's horned head and it's legs)
Erik those carvings are amazing you must have an incredible collection I would love to see how you have them displayed , do you have a special space ?
As a child i started collecting graphic novels (like Don Lawrence), children adventure books and stuff from nature and i ended up collecting collections of all kinds. I have a huge private library covering thousands of books (nature, science, photography, film, art, music, history, old cultures, anthropology, chess etc), thousands of videos and dvd's (covering over 30 years of television) and a private museum with lots of naturalia (taxidermy especially owls, skeletons, fossils, shelfs etc), wooden sculptures (including a wonderful Corpus Christi that might be a lovely cd cover), etchings etc. Some are displayed in glass vitrines, others are just staged on bookshelfs. The carving i posted is not mine but i have a similar one made by probably the same artist (he made many of them in all formats up to over 2 meters). One of the owls in my collection happens to be the avatar of the man who stuffed it. If you click it the enlarged picture will show you how i like my taxidermy..... as real as real can get.