Both. The butterfly would show your tender side, and the flaming skulls would show your devil may care side. A bunny of strong action, but with a tender heart.
Eldo, that’s certainly understandable; it would work for either. If I made it look less like a fox, it’d look too much like a wolf. I’m pleased whenever anyone identifies it as Coyote/a coyote without prompting, but I’m also surprised.
The particular color scheme is adapted from the traditional face-paint for Coyote in some Southwestern tribal dance; red paint across the lower half of the face, and on the forearms (not visible here, of course).
I’d ask you, though, would anybody identify your avatar as a ‘Possum, if they were unfamiliar with the character? :-)
“Peyote Coyote” is a drawing I’ve done (more than once, in fact). If I knew how to post images I’d share it, so if you can tell me how I can display it tomorrow.
Coyotes are fascinating animals in many respects, and Coyote is a fascinating character/god. But, in European tradition, the Fox shares many traits. Check out the Reynard stories, which are pretty much pan-European and perhaps even predate Christianization (although I have no idea whether, in pagan Europe, the Fox was ever considered an actual god).
There are certain stories which are part of Native American Coyote cycles which are nearly identical to European Reynard stories. Of course, pretty much all cultures have some tradition of Trickster Tales, but I suspect (it’s only a theory) that early French traders, sitting around American campfires with the locals trading stories, heard some Coyote stories and reciprocated with similar stories of Reynard. The Reynard stories thus got assimilated into Amerind oral tradition. (I have no real evidence to support this theory, but it seems plausible.)
Coyote’s the kind of god I can get behind; arbitrary, capricious, untrustworthy, hindering as much as helping, and who laughs and is laughed at in equal measure. Also, like his Warner Bros. manifestation Wile E., he’s pretty much indestructible; he takes a pounding, but he always bounces back.
margueritem over 13 years ago
Go for both, M. Smokey.
The missing M. Smokey over 13 years ago
Which do you think the bunny babes would go for?
margueritem over 13 years ago
Both. The butterfly would show your tender side, and the flaming skulls would show your devil may care side. A bunny of strong action, but with a tender heart.
wndrwrthg over 13 years ago
How about a flaming butterfly skull?
cdward over 13 years ago
If he got the motorcycle tattoos, he’d be a Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmin.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
Butterflies with flaming skulls. Cool.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
Got myself a new tattoo last Friday. It’s the Coyote avatar you see immediately to the left of these words…
MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
I got myself a whole bunch of tattoos this past week. They’re all pictures of freckles.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
Eldo, that’s certainly understandable; it would work for either. If I made it look less like a fox, it’d look too much like a wolf. I’m pleased whenever anyone identifies it as Coyote/a coyote without prompting, but I’m also surprised.
The particular color scheme is adapted from the traditional face-paint for Coyote in some Southwestern tribal dance; red paint across the lower half of the face, and on the forearms (not visible here, of course).
I’d ask you, though, would anybody identify your avatar as a ‘Possum, if they were unfamiliar with the character? :-)
trekkermint over 13 years ago
always thought fritzoid’s avatar was from the peyote way know a guy who has red/blue bird like that from that tradition i’m a seal ;)
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
“Peyote Coyote” is a drawing I’ve done (more than once, in fact). If I knew how to post images I’d share it, so if you can tell me how I can display it tomorrow.
Coyotes are fascinating animals in many respects, and Coyote is a fascinating character/god. But, in European tradition, the Fox shares many traits. Check out the Reynard stories, which are pretty much pan-European and perhaps even predate Christianization (although I have no idea whether, in pagan Europe, the Fox was ever considered an actual god).
There are certain stories which are part of Native American Coyote cycles which are nearly identical to European Reynard stories. Of course, pretty much all cultures have some tradition of Trickster Tales, but I suspect (it’s only a theory) that early French traders, sitting around American campfires with the locals trading stories, heard some Coyote stories and reciprocated with similar stories of Reynard. The Reynard stories thus got assimilated into Amerind oral tradition. (I have no real evidence to support this theory, but it seems plausible.)
Coyote’s the kind of god I can get behind; arbitrary, capricious, untrustworthy, hindering as much as helping, and who laughs and is laughed at in equal measure. Also, like his Warner Bros. manifestation Wile E., he’s pretty much indestructible; he takes a pounding, but he always bounces back.
Besides, he was on this continent first.