shibarakudesu:pangur-and-grim: vanquinox:pangur-and-grim: alexandriasee:pangur-and-grim:today’
shibarakudesu:pangur-and-grim: vanquinox:pangur-and-grim: alexandriasee:pangur-and-grim:today’s obsession is ancient tattoos, in particular the s-curved floral-antlered deer of the Siberian Ice Maiden and Scythian Chieftain. it’s such a heavily used trope in modern media (off the top of my head I can think of Pokemon, Annihilation, Bambi, Snow White and the Huntsman, etc) and why wouldn’t it be! antlers look like branches, branches look like antlers, it’s only natural to pair thembut it makes me strangely emotional that our brains have always worked this way, and been drawn to the same imagery over and over again. I’m also going to resist the urge to make paired enamel pins of these ancient deer, even though I deeply desire little wearable tributes of the past Make the enamel pin pls @pangur-and-grim well okay, if you insist!pre-order are open for these ancient stag enamel pins at greerstothers.shopand as an added bonus, the Scythian Chieftan’s ram! Can you show how they slot together? sure thing! so in the tattoo, the ram and stag are vertically aligned and their shapes fit into one another beautifully I fully understand romanticizing the design of the stag with flowers in it’s antlers, and how it is a re-occurring design in our past/present. I do also want to point out that it’s likely based on Real Life. As in stags/bucks do this every year. They need to rub the velvet off the outside of their antlers, so they rub against trees. This combined with the fact that antlers are unwieldy leads to images like this: It is extremely common to see stags with vegetation in the antlers, and it’s likely that the original tattoo design was based off this. “antlers look like branches, branches look like antlers, it’s only natural to pair them” is a valid observation, however I would posit that those who hunted were more likely to be inspired by these natural events rather than coincidental designs. -- source link