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Friday, October 29, 2010
Sacrificial Dagger
Artist Daniel O'Keefe brings us this well done sacrificial dagger. The design is fantastic, but it's the patina and distressing that really brings it to life, so to speak.
The design of the pommel, with a head facing multiple directions, is seen on a Tibetan phurba, where that means a god's power and guidance. (And here the skull suggests what sort of god.) But this is not a phurba's straight three-edged blade, meant for pinning demons to the ground.
Rather, the blade resembles a kris, wavy-edged to wiggle going into a body. Nasty.
A thoroughly convincing assembly for a sacrificial blade.
Love it!
ReplyDeleteThe design of the pommel, with a head facing multiple directions, is seen on a Tibetan phurba, where that means a god's power and guidance. (And here the skull suggests what sort of god.) But this is not a phurba's straight three-edged blade, meant for pinning demons to the ground.
ReplyDeleteRather, the blade resembles a kris, wavy-edged to wiggle going into a body. Nasty.
A thoroughly convincing assembly for a sacrificial blade.