Mystery Animal And Other Wonderful Stamps

Maybe it is a bird with an Elephants body?

The hefalump is my very own self-created mythical beast. I first applied it in late 1989 to a particularly odious cousin.

and what were the results rohumpy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8bMvH4I8hU


Londonbus1....also lovely and Cuddly !

uncle LB

what is the animal ont he stamp?

Seeing as the hefalump is oblivious to insults, it rolled off the cousin's back.

lol

I would have to say a cow

Dianne

Not an elephant as the head is completely wrong.

The head looks like a cat family for me.

Unlikely to be a lion as it is Indian folk art.

So I THINK it may be a tiger.

BUT it also has a saddle - did someone ride a tiger in one of the Indian stories?

But it is a beautiful stamp - I love the sun and the sinuous tree.

What are the triangles on the base - flowers?

Sorry, rohumpy, you must have had a memory flashback - the heffalump appears in one of A A Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories (Pooh's name for an elephant).

From http://www.lavasurfer.com/pooh-faq12.html:


So I THINK the animal in the stamp could be a heffalump, as no trunk could fit inside a honey jar!

I would vote a Cow, as its a sacred animal in India. I believe that would be some sort of sacred religious blanket not a saddle.

and the sun and tree would Representative the protection provided to the animal.


if you do an image search of sacred India animals you see the cow depicted with a similar larger blanket.









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i think I should put the ms on sale here but I dont know what to call it since we still havent all agreed on the animal yet

An Indian Bandersnatch?

I'm sticking with Leopard and here's a Hindu story:

Manikantan – Why is God Ayyappa Known as Manikanta?

One of the popular names of Hindu God Ayyappa is Manikantan. Ayyappa was first found by the king of Panthalam in Kerala during one of his hunting expeditions. The little boy who was lying alone in the dark deep forest had a jewel round his neck. Since he was found with this jewel he was named as Manikanta.

Another version of the story says that it was not jewel but Ayyappa was found with a small bell. In Malayalam 'mani' is the term used for small ghanta, or bell, and also for precious stone.

Ayyappa is a symbolic creation from a fusion of Vishnu and Shiva. Ayyappan is the son of Shiva and Vishnu who takes form as Mohini.
The queen of Panthalam sends Manikanta to the forest to bring leopard's milk to cure her stomach pain. The stomach pain was a method feigned by the queen to eliminate Manikantan and install her son as the next king.
Manikanta goes to the forest and returns to the palace riding a leopard, said to be Lord Indra Himself, with other leopards following.
The people who witnessed this divine event realized that Manikantan was no ordinary boy but a divine representative of both Shiva and Vishnu.

from here: http://www.hindu-blog.com/2010/01/m...nown-as.html