From the aquatic Hera, with the serpentine body of its Naga father and the feet of its mother, a dragon, are two strange hybrids relatively new additions to the mythical assortment. The Kinnon-nua which is a man from the waist up and a deer from the waist down. The Narasingh has a human body, but the claws and head of a lion, though occasionally depicted with hooves. Both were of the fertile imagination of ancient Thai artisans who found the original literature about the Himapan forest to be somewhat lacking in detail about the inhabitants of that invisible realm.
With all these strange and wonderful creatures roaming the Himapan forest to portray, Thai artists should have been satisfied with the scope they had, but they felt that more was needed and invented many other mythical forms of their own. Combining the ancient written and spoken myths with the imagination of generations of Thai artists has created a whole world of strange and wonderful creatures inhabiting their own special paradise. It is a blend of legend and reality that is such a fundamental part of Thai art.
From the aquatic Hera, with the serpentine body of its Naga father and the feet of its mother, a dragon, are two strange hybrids relatively new additions to the mythical assortment. The Kinnon-nua which is a man from the waist up and a deer from the waist down. The Narasingh has a human body, but the claws and head of a lion, though occasionally depicted with hooves. Both were of the fertile imagination of ancient Thai artisans who found the original literature about the Himapan forest to be somewhat lacking in detail about the inhabitants of that invisible realm.With all these strange and wonderful creatures roaming the Himapan forest to portray, Thai artists should have been satisfied with the scope they had, but they felt that more was needed and invented many other mythical forms of their own. Combining the ancient written and spoken myths with the imagination of generations of Thai artists has created a whole world of strange and wonderful creatures inhabiting their own special paradise. It is a blend of legend and reality that is such a fundamental part of Thai art.
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