Post #744407 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, Jun 7, 2015 2:26 PM

hiltiki - White Walkers? From Game of Thrones? I really dig that show mostly cause of the Dinklage - I'm a huge fan of Tyrion Lanniste. But I have not watched past the first season yet - I wait till I can buy the whole thing on DVD and view with out breaks.

Hmmm. ... White Walkers?! Cool. Looks like a Windigo? Well, my Tiki Triber, the "Night Marchers" are sort of the Hawaiian version of the "Wild Hunt" in Ireland and Europe. They are a procession of spirits and super natural beings that travel certain "Path Ways" at night around the islands. They might be ancestors or other things, super natural beings called "kupua". Tales tell the only way to survive coming into contact with the Night Marchers and surviving is to strip off all your clothes, prostate yourself face down in the mud, and recite your ancestry back 20 generations... or something like dat.

However, no one has ever survived an encounter with the Night Marchers, at least as far as my friends here in Hawaii have told me.

Anyways, here's some more work on my "A Black Cat Crosses the Path of the Night Marchers" painting:

Here's the whole thing. Yep lots to do still.

A closer look a the NM in he front - he is not holding a torch, but a "torch flower". Why? Dunno, dream logic. The NM's held glowing - flaming with ghostly flame "Torch Flowers".

Here's another design - this is for the NM going up the next flight of M.C. Escher-ish Steps.
Note the shark mouth tattoo on his back - this is also from a dream . This relates to the famous "Shark Man of Ewa" : a kupua that could shape shift from a shark, to a man, to a rat, to a bunch of bananas! In his human form he had a Shark Mouth on his back and would eat swimmers…I saw this as a tattoo (in the dream).

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2015-06-10 02:37 ]