And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The graven images (peacocks, trailing their tails) suggests that it might not be an Islamic culture. Islamic art prohibits the images of people or animals out of concern they might be worshipped as "gods".
Peacocks are one of the national symbols of India and in Hinduism, the peacock is the animal ridden by Kartikeya, the Hindu God of War.
Purely as a speculation, that blue color and beard say Afghan, but the images on the sling say "Let's Go Brandon!"
ReplyDeleteWhat a great photograph.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't look inbred enough to be Afghani. Not dark enough for Yemani. I don't know about Serbs.
ReplyDeleteThat'd make a kick ass guitar strap.
ReplyDeleteAfghan.
ReplyDeleteA Pashtun.
I would bet 1$ on it.
The graven images (peacocks, trailing their tails) suggests that it might not be an Islamic culture. Islamic art prohibits the images of people or animals out of concern they might be worshipped as "gods".
ReplyDeletePeacocks are one of the national symbols of India and in Hinduism, the peacock is the animal ridden by Kartikeya, the Hindu God of War.
I don't know what he is, but that strap would look great on my banjo.
ReplyDeletePeacock angel and the Yazidi. Could be a Yazidi man.
ReplyDeleteAfghan's would not allow that handlebar mustache, nor the bright colors. I am going for Hindi.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I hear, he also has the sexiest goat in the village.
ReplyDeleteAfghani
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