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Probably a first of my mythical creature illustrations. Good thing their descriptions are often vague, especially when it comes to non-greek mythological material.
Aitvaras/Aitivaras/Kaltunas is a rather strange mythical creature. It is hatched by a black cock (not that one; get your head out of the gutter) in its 7th year, lives at his' master's house and brings to the house money and riches (usually collected from neighbours, yet it is also said to be able to transmute materials into gold), however - diseases aswell. It demands offerings of fried eggs for food. If angered it will burn the house down. Getting rid of it means leaving the house and traveling far away. Another curiosity - apparently it is affraid of human nudity. :)
The descriptions of what it looks like are very diverese, ranging from a black or burning cockatrice, to a glowing serpent or a comet. This is sort of my interpretation (one of them anyways) of how it might look.
Enought with the colors already. B/W is fun too.
Aitvaras/Aitivaras/Kaltunas is a rather strange mythical creature. It is hatched by a black cock (not that one; get your head out of the gutter) in its 7th year, lives at his' master's house and brings to the house money and riches (usually collected from neighbours, yet it is also said to be able to transmute materials into gold), however - diseases aswell. It demands offerings of fried eggs for food. If angered it will burn the house down. Getting rid of it means leaving the house and traveling far away. Another curiosity - apparently it is affraid of human nudity. :)
The descriptions of what it looks like are very diverese, ranging from a black or burning cockatrice, to a glowing serpent or a comet. This is sort of my interpretation (one of them anyways) of how it might look.
Enought with the colors already. B/W is fun too.
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 900 x 638px
File Size 119.4 kB
wow thats a really strange creature, does it talk to say things like " give me fried eggs or I will BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE!" :P I think thats a very good picture, and considering the information given about it I think that is a very good interpretation, very interesting creature ^o^
Actually, no... it burns, then asks questions later. :]
Despite the appearance (hands...), the descriptions i seem to have gathered suggest that it's a zoomorphic, not an anthropomorphic creature (in both appearance and manners), it's the opposite in material, nature and manners to Kaukas (a small human-like mythical being made of clay/earth, which can also settle in a house and bring stuff there), though it did speak in one fable, as far as i can remember - saying something sarcastic (rare case in fables) to a person who failed to get rid of it.
I think i forgot to mention its foe is horse.
If the creature settles in a farm, the horses there become ill or die. However, other accounts suggest that horses have the upper hand and Aitivaras can't appear where there are horses (nearly extinct mythologies under reconstruction are often ambiguous; some even imagine the creature to look like a kite... because 'aitvaras' means 'kite' in the language).
Might be good material for another picture, me thinks...
Despite the appearance (hands...), the descriptions i seem to have gathered suggest that it's a zoomorphic, not an anthropomorphic creature (in both appearance and manners), it's the opposite in material, nature and manners to Kaukas (a small human-like mythical being made of clay/earth, which can also settle in a house and bring stuff there), though it did speak in one fable, as far as i can remember - saying something sarcastic (rare case in fables) to a person who failed to get rid of it.
I think i forgot to mention its foe is horse.
If the creature settles in a farm, the horses there become ill or die. However, other accounts suggest that horses have the upper hand and Aitivaras can't appear where there are horses (nearly extinct mythologies under reconstruction are often ambiguous; some even imagine the creature to look like a kite... because 'aitvaras' means 'kite' in the language).
Might be good material for another picture, me thinks...
ooh sounds cool, I love your love for mythical beasts and creatures. hmm it doesnt like horses? how mean! and when you say kite you mean the bird right? unless you mean the actual flying thing on a bit of string goes around killing horses and making people feed it eggs....lol just imagine that, a kite(not the bird) burning down houses and eating eggs X'D
Yes. The paper kite. Sounds silly when one thinks about it. Though the average person usually knows only its name and that it brinds money to a house it lives at. From there it's not that far for Aitvaras to become a dead object bringing good fortune to a house, sort of like a horseshoe. :]
Not quite good fortune. Its function can be summed up as: to bring money at the cost of luck and health. It's a well illustrated moral for person's aims at earning as much money as possible while ignoring life, health, etc... I think there's a bit of truth that this creature isn't easy to get rid of. More money, more problems. Unless you leave everything behind... Ancient wisdom is surprising.
Nah, the picture doesn't have any well-constructed meaning. Just a few related symbols floating around, offering some thought trains as to what the beast might be or be like. I may have had some ideas when including the symbols, but someone else would interpretate them differently, having different knowledge about both the symbols and the creature (due to different and ambiguous descriptions), thus look at the creature from a different point of view. A person thinking of the creature as a kite would come to different conlusions than one, thinking of it as a part fire elemental, part spirit. And noone would be entirely right.
a fantastic piece
I really like that this was done in black and white, it gives the image an almost spectral quality to it, especially in areas more illuminated, such as the hand to the right, which I really like. I quite like how constructed this creature as well. The rough textures give a nice quality to the piece.
I really like that this was done in black and white, it gives the image an almost spectral quality to it, especially in areas more illuminated, such as the hand to the right, which I really like. I quite like how constructed this creature as well. The rough textures give a nice quality to the piece.
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