sheath tooling designs what do they stand for?

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I was wondering what the designs (very nice)
on my scabbard might be? Are they from myths
or just decoration.They are a sun and a bird,
the bird remindes me of a thunder bird I saw
scratched under a cliff over hang in the HUACHUA mountains in Ariziona. I was hikeing
and trying to get out of the wind!
 
That's Garuda, the mount of Vishnu. He corresponds to the Thunderbird; you find the same archetypes all over the world....

-Cougar :{)
 
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The Garuda is a giant eagle, not much like a pheasant, not symbolically anyway... That would be the Chinese Ring-Necked Pheasant, same species that we have here in America (introduced, of course), wouldn't it? What does the pheasant symbolize, besides being the national bird?

Just guessing ... pheasants are herbivorous, peaceful birds (unlike eagles) ... highly intelligent, as anyone who's hunted wild pheasants knows (stocked tame pheasants are a bird of a different feather entirely as far as wariness goes)....

We don't have any folklore about pheasants here; they were introduced too recently. I don't know any oriental folklore about pheasants either. I'm at a loss.

-Cougar :{)
 
Cougar, I'm not sure why they picked the Daphne as national bird of Nepal but I do know that unlike us they hunt and eat their national bird on a regular basis. Don't know if it is legal or not but it's done.

I've seen so many interpretations by engravers of the Daphne that it really stretches the limits of artistic license.

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