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Cross and Stars

Photographer Unknown, (Cross and Stars)

“He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Arrow Tattoos

Tattoos on Guys: Arrows

Rudra (Sanskrit: रुद्र) is a Rigvedic Deity, associated with wind or storm, and the hunt. The name has been translated as “The Roarer”. In the Rigveda, Rudra has been praised as the “mightiest of the mighty”. The Shri Rudram hymn from the Yajurveda is dedicated to Rudra, and is important in the Saivism sect. In RigVeda 7.46, Rudra is described as armed with a bow and fast-flying arrows. As quoted by R. G. Bhandarkar, the hymn says Rudra discharges “brilliant shafts which run about the heaven and the earth” (RigVeda 7.46.3), which may be a reference to the destructive power of lightning. The arrow as a symbol is used to signify Rudra.