Tengu Beaks Hide Sharpened Steel, Tengu Wings Throw Poison Wind Digital Art Print

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Tengu live in Japan; only in Japan, for some reason, though they have wings and storm winds to carry them across the sea. Maybe they feel some strange sense of devotion to their native land; maybe they all must move as one, and no stormbird ever could work with another; maybe they just lack the initiative to spread themselves around. Whatever the reason, they stay home, where their long noses and sharp claws are known, and a good thing for the rest of the world, where people might otherwise ignore a strange sulfur taste on the breeze...

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Tengu, like demons everywhere, have a widely varying portrayal. Sometimes they're bloody-handed assassins or village-eating monsters, sometimes they're wacky tricksters. This interestingly is the same sort of treatment shared by gods throughout mythology, except total softies like Balder. And, come to think of it, stories about humans tend to drift that way too, when they're honest...

Mixed Media, Print on Photo Paper, 8 by 10

Added on Oct 26, 2009

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