Egyptian Tattoo with Great Winged Disc Design bird and surrounds a central element

and surrounds a central element from a warrior's shield of long ago

A Chumash Indian myth tells that the world was once devastated by a great deluge

Two of them is an Extravagance of Wolfhounds

with their profound connotations

and an oval of knotwork encircles the whole

Egyptian Tattoo with Great Winged Disc Design bird and surrounds a central elementThe solar disc represents the sun, but not simply in an astronomically factual manner. To early peoples the world over, including ancient Egypt, the sun was sovereign, mighty, and all seeing. It was the giver of life and also the source of light and wisdom, making it one of the most widespread and powerful of all symbols. Flanking the solar disk are the uraei. The uraeus, double in this case, is the rearing cobra of Buto, the goddess of Lower Egypt,