A unicorn is a mythical horse like creature with a horn. Here are a few unicorns made of felt by Australian artist Rannan
Rannan (Rhiannon Thomas) is an artist from Melbourne, Australia. She studied animation at university. Her current artworks explore the felting medium.
She likes animals, fantasy and making things…………
Q) How was Design Festa?
“Pretty good!, nice lighting and i had some good people come by,visitors and fellow artists to comment,chat,and buy!”
Each beast is unique. They are all handmade using special techniques including, needle felting, moulding plastics and sculpting.
Unicorns are a symbol of imagination, wandering minds returning to childhood, a love of the familiar & fear of the unknown. Please visit Rannan here http://www.rannan.com.au or catch her next exhibition in MYOGADANI’s CAFE GALLERIA where she will be featured as one of their “monthly artists” from June 1st until the 30th!
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A Few Thoughts on Unicorns
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European folklore, the unicorn is often depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long horn and cloven hooves (sometimes a goat’s beard).
For some 13th century French authors such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard de Fournival, the lover is attracted to his lady as the unicorn is to the virgin.
In heraldry the unicorn is best known as the symbol of Scotland.
Is there basis in reality for the unicorn? Some mythologists suggest this creature is based on the extinct rhinocerus species Elasmotherium, a huge Eurasian mammal native to the steppes, south of the range of the woolly rhinoceros of Ice Age Europe.
The unicorn is even mentioned in the King James version of the Bible nine times.
Unicorns often have the power to heal physical and emotional wounds through the tip of its horn. The blood of a Unicorn can be used to keep a person who is near death alive, but the recipient will have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches its lips. Magic comes with a price!
The unicorn can be ridden like a regular horse and used as a free mount.
Want to capture a wild unicorn? Made gentle by the sight of a virgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head in her lap, and in this docile mood, the maiden may secure it with a golden rope.
Unicorns may enter your dreams in order to give messages and offer guidance, especially when you are feeling confused and having difficulty making decisions.
Many of these horse-like animals live near rainbows, and traverse the global rainbow network as a way to quickly get where they want to go.
Unicorns have been discussed and given mythical status for centuries now, in religious texts, travel observations, and even ancient academic papers.
And is this true, unicorns did exist? An extinct Siberian unicorn species may have lived alongside humans, fossil suggests – a newly found skull, which was remarkably well-preserved, was found in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan. This suggests the unicorn may have made its last stand in the frozen wilds of Russia – having died out a mere 29,000 years ago.
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