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Posted on September 20, 2017March 23, 2018 by avenkate

Animals in Temples

For some time now, I have been fascinated by how animals occupy, move and are accommodated in temple spaces. Cats, elephants, cows, bats, goats and so forth. The animals that leap and twist out of the stone are not part of the equation. Yet. Here is a selection. What to make of this is still a thought in progress.

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