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Devil
Devil

Painting elements: The devil on a wasp.

Roof Panel Elements: Devils, Demons, Contra-Beings, tricksters and bringers of Chaos, Protection from them. Beings and Forms that cause man to miss the mark.

Roof 1: A panoply of dark beings including animals associated with demonic forces, Runes of Loki, trickster beings Coyote, Norse, Babylonian, Judaic, Islam, Slavic, Hindu, Chinese, Greek, Egyptian, Zoroastrian, Canaanite demons or contra gods. Chaos. Distortion of "good", that which is "against the God" whatever god that is, Hex symbols, Thunder and Lightening. Christian sycretized Pan. Pentagram (also Christian syncretized evil. The vever for Legba - crossroads as a portal to "demon" possession (yet again Christian).

Roof 2: Protection prayers from Islam, Christianity and Hindu surrounded by the four Yuga (Ages) of Hindu, Satya Yuga (first, truth), Treta Yuga (second, virtue decreases by 1/2), Dvapara Yuga (third again a decrease in virtue) and the present Kali Yuga (present, quarrel). Inhabiting the outside of the Yuga circle are other incarnations of devils and demons, that old goat from Job 1:6 who roams back and forth across the earth. Aztec, Hindu, Norse, Welsh, European, Chinese devils and demons.

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