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Lucha Libro Poster, Fall 2011

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SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS...

Saturday, September 9, 2012

CENTRAL LIBRARY, 4-6 PM
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Logo Design Project, Fall 2011

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San Antonio Par 3 Lighted Golf Logo and Stationery, Fall 2011

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Dinner Garden Fundraiser Packet, Fall 2011

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San Antonio Magazine Spread, Spring 2012
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best

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Best known for its scenic Riverwalk and historic Alamo, the citys hub can be a massive playground if you just know where to look.

Well show YOU

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If you havent seen San Antonio from the seat of a bicycle, youre missing out.

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Mythical Serpents Booklet, Spring 2012

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A PANTHEON OF UNGRATEFUL KIDS into the great ocean that encircles Midgard. The serpent SERPENTS In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is a grew so big that he was able to surround the Earth chaos monster, a primordial goddess of and grasp his own tail, and as a result he earned the Stories involving the the ocean, mating with Abzu (the god of alternate name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent. nagas are still very much fresh water) to produce younger gods. It is Jrmungandrs arch enemy is the god Thor. a part of contemporary cultural traditions in suggested that there are two parts to the predominantly Hindu Tiamat mythos, the first in which Tiamat AFRICAN SERPENT WORSHIP regions of Asia (India, is creatrix, through a Sacred marriage In Africa the chief centre of serpent worship was Nepal, and the island of between salt and fresh water, peacefully Dahomey, but the cult of the python seems to have Bali). In India, nagas are considered nature spirits creating the cosmos through successive been of exotic origin, dating back to the first quarter of and the protectors generations. In the second, Tiamat is the 17th century. At Whydah, the chief centre, there is of springs, wells and considered the monstrous embodiment a serpent temple, tenanted by some fifty snakes. The rivers. They bring rain, of primordial chaos identified with images rainbow-god of the Ashanti was also conceived to have and thus fertility, but are also thought to bring of a sea serpent or dragon. In the Enma the form of a snake. His messenger was said to be a GIVE ME SHELTER WE ALL FALL DOWN disasters such as ANOTHER TALE OF floods Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, small variety of boa, but only certain individuals, not the NWA Mucalinda is the name of a snake-like Nwa is a serpent goddess in ancient Chinese and drought. she gives birth to the first generation of whole species, were sacred. In many parts of Africa the being who protected the Buddha from mythology best known for creating mankind and It is said that Nwa deities; she later makes war upon them serpent is looked upon as the incarnation of deceased Traditions about nagas the elements after his enlightenment. It repairing the wall of heaven. The earliest literary role existed in the beginning are also very common and is killed by the storm-god Marduk. The relatives. of is said that four weeks after Buddha began seems to be the upkeep and maintenance of the Wall ofthe Buddhist the world. She felt in all heavens and the earth are formed from meditating under the Bodhi tree, the Heaven, whose collapse would obliterate everything. countries of Asia.lonely as there were no In her divided body. NATIVE AMERICANS animals so she began many heavens darkened for seven days, and a There was a quarrel between two of the more powerful countries, the In America some of the Native American tribes give naga concept hasthe creation of animals prodigious rain descended. However, the gods, and they decided to settle it with a fight. When and humans. On the been merged with DAM DRAGON reverence to the rattlesnake as grandfather and king of mighty king of serpents, Mucalinda, came the water god, Gong Gong, saw that he was losing,traditions of first day she created local great In the early Vedic religion, Vritra, a serpent snakes who is able to give fair winds or cause tempest. chickens. On the second from beneath the earth and protected with he smashed his head against Mount Buzhou, a pillar and wise serpents or or dragon, was the personification of Among the Hopi of Arizona the serpent figures largely dragons. In Tibet, day she created dogs. the his hood the one who is the source of holding up the sky. The pillar collapsed and caused the On the third day she drought and enemy of Indra. He appears in one of the dances. The rattlesnake was worshiped naga all protection. When the great storm had sky to tilt towards the northwest and the earth to shift was equated with sheep. On the created the klu, wits that dwell as a dragon blocking the course of the in the Natchez temple of the sun and the Aztec deity fourth cleared, the serpent king assumed his to the southeast. This caused great calamities,in lakes or underground day she created such Rivers and is heroically slain by Indra. Quetzalcoatl was a feathered serpent-god. In many pigs. On the fifth day human form, bowed before the Buddha, as unending fires, vast floods, and the appearance of THE END OF A CHASING RAINBOWS streams and guard According to the Rig Veda, Vritra kept the STONY GAZE Meso-American cultures, the serpent was regarded as she treasure. In China, thecreated cows. and returned in joy to his palace. fierce man-eating beasts. Nwa cut off the legs of a QUETZALCOATL On the In The Peru are common motif in the art waters of the world captive until he was Greek mythology, athe Gorgon wastwo worlds. The tribes of Rainbow Serpent is a naga was equated with sixth day she portal between giant tortoise and used them to supplant the fallen created horses. On the a terrifying female creature. have adored great snakes in the and mythology of Aboriginal Australia. Chinese The name the lng or It is named killed by Indra, who destroyed all the ninetysaid to pre-Inca days Quetzalcoatls departure seventh day she began THE RAFT OF THE GODS pillar, alleviating the situation and sealing the broken dragon. water across a derives from the Greek word gorgs, which nine fortresses of Vritra before liberating and in Chile the Mapuche made a serpentfor the their figure in snake-like meandering of was the work of his old creating men from Sesha is the king of all nagas, and is said sky using stones of seven different colors, but she was means dreadful. While descriptions of landscape and the colour spectrum caused yellow clay, sculpting when enemy, Tezcatlipoca, the imprisoned rivers. The combat began deluge beliefs. to hold all the planets of the Universe unable to fully correct the tilted sky. This explains the who each Gorgons vary across Greek literature, the sunlight strikes water at an appropriate angle relative one individually, wanted people to soon after Indra was born, and he had on his hoods and to constantly sing the phenomenon that sun, moon, and stars move towards make bloodier sacrifices yet after she had created term commonly refers to any of three to the observer. The Rainbow Serpent is seen as the than the flowers, jade, hundreds of figures glories of Vishnu from his in China flow southeast MYTHICAL SNAKES OF THE WORLD all whomouths. It MYTHICAL SNAKES OF the northwest, and that rivers of permanent waterholes and is in control of 3 sisters had hair of living, venomous THE WORLD inhabitant and butterflies they in this way she still is said that when Adishesha uncoils, time into the Pacific Ocean. snakes, and a horrifying visage that turned lifes most precious resource, oils and waters. hadis He more to make but to Quetzalcoatl. gave moves forward and creation takes place. Tezcatlipoca tricked those who beheld it to stone. Traditionally, the sometimes unpredictable Rainbow Serpent,had grown tired of the who 3/7/12 universep2_v6.indd 3 11:32 PM 3/7/12 11:32 AM 3/8/12 8:30 PM When he coils back, the ceases Quetzalcoatl by getting laborious process. while two of the Gorgons were immortal, vies with the ever-reliable Sun, that replenishes the him drunk and then to exist. Shesha is generally depicted with Stheno and Euryale, their sister Medusa stores of water, forming gullies and deep channels holding up a mirror that So instead of hand a massive form that floats coiled in space, was not, and was slain by the mythical as he slithered across the landscape, allowing for the showed Tezcatlipocas crafting each figure, or on the universal ocean, to form the bed cruel face. Believing that she dipped a rope in demigod and hero Perseus. collection and distribution of water. on which Vishnu lies. Sometimes he is clay and flicked it he was looking at his so own imperfect image, blobs of clay landed shown as five-headed or seven-headed, WEASEL YOUR WAY OUT ETERNAL BATTLE everywhere; eachQuetzalcoatl threw of but more commonly as a many thousandIn European bestiaries and legends, a Veles, also known asVolos, is a major Slavic supernatural blobs became a himself onto a funeral these headed serpent sometimes with each common person. pyre. As his body Nwa basilisk is a legendary reptile reputed force of earth, waters and the underworld, associated head wearing an ornate crown. burned, his heart went still laboriously crafted to be king of serpents and said to have with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians, wealth and up into some people out of clay, the heavens the power to cause death with a single trickery. He is the opponent of the Supreme thunder- became nobles. to become Venus, the who 8 MYTHICAL glance. OF THE WORLD Naturalis Historia MYTHICAL SNAKES OFgod WORLD and the battle between two of them SNAKES According to the THE Perun, 9 morning and evening star. of Pliny the Elder, the basilisk of Cyrene is a constitutes one of the most important myths of Slavic small snake, being not more than twelve mythology. He may have been imagined as (at least Another 11:32AM version of 3/7/12 11:32 PM p2_v6.indd 3/7/12 8:30 PM 3/8/12 fingers in length, [2] that is so venomous9 partially) serpentine, with horns (of a bull, ram or some the myth says that that it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom other domesticated herbivore), and a long beard. After Quetzalcoatl sailed east into the sea on a in its wake, and its gaze is likewise lethal; the advent of Christianity, Veles was split into several raft of serpents. Many its weakness is in the odour of the weasel, different characters. As a god of the Underworld and Aztecs believed that he which, according to Pliny, was thrown into dragons he, of course, became identified with the Devil. would come back one the basilisks hole, recognizable because His more benevolent sides were transformed to several day. In the early 1500s, the Spanish conqueror all the surrounding shrubs and grass had Christian saints. Hernn Corts took been scorched by its presence.
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Carl Sagan Illustration, Spring 2011

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