Kurukadi and Mumba are Twin Iguana Spirits. One white, one black.
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The two totemic ancestors of many legendary cycles. Lizard men. One of them was called Kurukadi and his totem was the iguana; the other's name was Mumba and his totem was the black iguana. The Mandjindja in western Australia believe that the Wati-kutjara descended from the mountains during the ‘dream time’, the age in which the ancestral spirits sleeping beneath the ground arose and wandered the earth. The Wati-kutjara made ceremonial instruments, like the inma board: the dark patches in the Milky Way, known as kadri-paruvilpi-ulu or ‘river course sky’, are boards they placed in the sky, while those given to men on earth are the means of remaining in contact with the ‘dreaming’ ancestors.
When the moon man Kulu, or Kidilli, attempted to force the first women, the lizard men struck and wounded him with their magical boomerang. Kulu soon afterwards died in an obscure water hole. This was the first death. A variant states that the conical mound associated with this conflict represents Kidilli's phallus, which the Wati-kutjara cut off. And the molested women, ancestral spirits rather than the first human beings, are said to have fled to the sky and become the Pleiades.
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Thanks for all the comments and favourites. This is a Free Study PB for me :)
For those who asked about the detail/sharpening, I used the Adamus sharpening technique. It has been described in the forums, so I wont go into it here, but if you cannot find it, send me a pm and I will tell you what I know of it.
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I gave this a pretty high vote, I love the incredible detail showing and the good range of B/W tones in it. I'm a sucker for detail and texture. About the only nitpick I might make is a bit of extra empty space at the top of the frame. I would have probably cropped it to try and put his eye in a ROT location. Not always possible, I don't know what you had to work with out of the camera.
Wow! Incredible sharpness and detail. I would love to know what sharpening / resizing method you used -- I had to check that my screen hadn't suddenly doubled its DPI!! Wonderful tones, too.
The branch on the left is a bit distracting, but still: I wish I had take this photo.
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