I would really like my hybrid creature to wear a costume, similar to the sketches i have done previously. So what i have to decide is it a rat with wings or a pigeon with a tail? I could use elements of each to create 2 specimens mixed together. Looking at my dead pigeon i have the feet and wings are really cool and all in tacked. This could prove valuable to me - especially when my rat arrives. I was thinking maybe a head piece for the rat made from the pigeon head, this would symbolise maybe as a trophy? or a disguise? this is something i need to consider.
I started by looking at tribal head wear that use dead animal skins to showcase their status and to symbolise their success in their tribe.
Hercules, Ancient Greek Mythology
Hercules was a Greek God and is popular in Greek Mythology, as a baby he was turned into a a half God - half mortal because of a mistake of Hades (his Uncle) who wanted to make him mortal so he could kill him (as you cannot kill a God) Hercules re-earned his God like status and was seen as a hereo. The Lion Skin and the Club was an attribute for him and a symbol of succession.
A Native American Chief
A WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING
this is a really interesting take on my project as I am doing a Rat with wings or alternatively a pigeon with a tail. This is a very old phrase that is still used today. It stems from the Bible and has a meaningful reason/ depth behind it.
Meaning: Someone who hides malicious intent under the guise of kindliness.
Origin: The cautionary advice that one cannot necessarily trust someone who appears kind and friendly has been with us for many centuries. Both Aesop's Fables and the Bible contain explicit references to wolves in sheep's clothing.
The version of Aesop's Fables that is best known to us today is George Fyler Townsend's 1867 translation, in which he gives the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing fable this way:
Once upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
This piece of text could really support my ideas and concepts and this is something that was suggested in my tutorial.
