Curious Old Carved Spiral Man kewpie Almost all Shiva temples display

Almost all Shiva temples display stone-images of a seated Nandi

as well documented in photos

but definitely has smeared some

and the irregularities make it really beautiful

Curious Old Carved Spiral Man kewpie Almost all Shiva temples displaySuch a curious one! And quite an old one, too. I call him spiral man, and think of him as a combination of human and nautilus shell, the latter also called a logarithmic spiral due to its embodiment of the Fibonacci sequenceand so perhaps this little carving holds the underlying logic of the universe in it! (He doesnt look especially happy about it, though!) 5 5 16"x 13 16" w x 1 1 4" d. Carved of pine with a dark old dry wood patina. Some softening