Animal Wednesday / Pup

I am working on a few things, but I can't show them just yet.....

So here is an oldie, a little mandala I was commissioned to make for Pup.

(Isn't that a cute name for a girl?)

In this mandala I painted an Egyptian Bennu.

The Bennu bird was an imaginary bird resembling a heron. It had a two long feathers on the crest of it's head and was often crowned with the Atef crown of Osiris (the White Crown with two ostrich plumes on either side) or with the disk of the sun. Meaning: The Bennu was the sacred bird of Heliopolis. Bennu probably derives from the word weben, meaning "rise" or "shine." The Bennu was associated with the sun and represented the Ba or soul of the sun god, Ra. In the Late Period, the hieroglyph of the bird was used to represent this deity directly. As a symbol of the rising and setting sun, the Bennu was also the lord of the royal jubilee.

Happy Animal Wednesday!