Horse Mask

This is from Mexico - purchased in Puerdo Escondido

This is from Mexico - it is the white faced, blue eyed god the Myan people predicted would come to them. It turned out that history played out for them and Cortez turned up and invaded.

We purchased this in San Christobel de las Casas - close to the boarder with Guatemala - 2003

Kukulcan is one of the three gods that was thought to have created the Earth. He is a serpent in his natural form and was responsible for teaching the Mayan's about such things as how to run a civilization, agriculture, and medicine. After a brief period of being on Earth Kukulcan returned to the ocean telling the Mayans that he would return at some later date. Kukulcan had a human form as well as his feathered serpent form. Kukulcan would transform into a man standing about 6 feet tall with long white hair, but most interestingly he was a male Caucasian man with white skin

The lady was purchased in Auckland.

The big Long Head was purchased in Bali during the first Asia finacial crisses. Shopping was good 1997

Jaguar Mask purchased in Puerdo Escondido Mexico from a little guy from his rug outside the hotel by the beach.

Jaguar are very important spiritual animals to the Myan people.

Tezcatlipoca (also Omacatl, Titlacauan) - omnipotent god of rulers, sorcerers and warriors; night, death, discord, conflict, temptation and change. A sinister rival to Quetzalcoatl. Can appear as a jaguar.

This mask is from Municupal market in Manaus Amazon Brazil in 2007 when kirstin when up the Amazon river

The mask is made of piranha teeth for the teeth and tapioca/ manioc fiber as the beard. The head dress is the scales of the Pirarucu fish from the amazon river.

Elephant head of Ganesh - purchased in India from a street market in Goa

Ganesha  is one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu religion His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India.

Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstaclesnand more generally as Lord of Beginnings and Lord of Obstacles, patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom

Wall hanging of the sun purchaased in the markets in Mexico city

In Aztec religion there were 5 ages, or "5 suns".  Each of these ages had a different Aztec sun god, and each age ended in disaster.

Hawian Tiki - purchased in Oahu Hawaii

There are Four Major Tiki Gods

Ku – Ancient Tiki God of War
Ku is worshipped under many names, including Ku-ka-ili-moku, the "Seizer of Land" (a feather-god, the guardian of Kamehameha). Rituals included human sacrifice
Lono – Ancient Tiki God of Fertility and Peace
In Hawaiian mythology, Lono is a fertility and music god who descended to Earth on a rainbow to marry Laka. In agricultural and planting traditions, Lono was identified with rain and food plants.
Kane– Ancient Tiki God of Light and Life
In Hawaiian mythology, Kane Milohai is the father of the tiki gods Ka-moho-ali'i, Pele (whom he exiled to Hawaii), Kapo, Namaka and Hi'iaka by Haumea. He created the sky, earth and upper heaven and gave Kumu-Honua the garden.
Kanaloa – Ancient Tiki God the Sea

This carving was purchased off a young boy selling them from a wrap of cloth - just carved.

We purchased this in Mexico Chichenniza

From Vietnem - purchased in the art street in Hanoi 2002

Water Buffalo

This is a photo of the hut we stayed in on the beach at Tulum Mexico

Tulum is the site of a  Maya walled city  The ruins are situated on 12-meter (39 ft) tall cliffs, along the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea ] Tulum was one of the last cities inhabited and built by the Mayans, it was at its height between the 13th and 15th centuries.

There are awsome Myan ruins on the cliff at the end of the beach and a stone throw from the door of the hut was a bar that looked very similar but with no walls - paradise.

Purchased from a silver crafts workshop in Indonesia - after being taken on a bit of a tourest trap ride.

It is made of silver - 1997 - waffer thin silver

This is a photo taken in Romania - in the area of transilvania - just behind a big Castle.

Kirstin walked back into poison ivy to get the shot ( unknowingly.. under my instrucation.. go on just a bit further back)

Top left - One of the fort towers on the wall of Debrovnik in Croatia

Second down left - In the centre of India at the temples at a UNESCO world heritage site in central India, Khajuraho which is a famous tourist and archaeological site known for its sculptured temples dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, and Jain patriarchs. Khajuraho was one of the capitals of the Chandela kings, who from the 9th to the 11th century. note the 1000s of sculptures on the building are all of an "erotic" nature

Third down left - In Mexico on the yucitan Penisular at Palenque: The funerary monument, dubbed the Temple of Inscriptions after the lengthy text preserved in the temple's superstructure built for (Pacal the Great), who ruled from 615 to 683

Bottom Left - in the markets in Vitenam

Top right - Greek Island of Aegina - this was built before the Pathanon. The temple of APHAIA,stands on a pine covered hill around 4km from the bay at Aghia Marina. The 5th century BC Doric temple is well preserved with some 24 limestone columns still standing.

It was dedicated to Aphaia - a hunting nymph daughter of Zeus and very much a local divinity 

Bottom right -Stret in Varanasi India - officially the craziest place on earth.

This photo was taken on the Greek Island of Aegina.

the main town of AEGINA TOWN also looks a bit like a movie set. The crescent shaped harbour is backed by neoclassical houses - some painted in bright colours - with tavernas, coffee shops and cafes trailing along the water's edge.

from left - Bowl from Bail

Little cat head from Gutamala

Chairman Mao from Guangzhou China market

Indonesian head from Jakata

Maraquas from Mexico