Having been a touch sidetracked by an historic Ashes victory* over the past few days (well months really, ever since mentioned on these hallowed pages a little while back), tonight we continue with our little jaunt around South Korea, admiring some statues along the way…
In what would appear to be a veritable hive for statues, this huge great scary tortoise is also found in the Seoul Olympic Park. Hearty congratulations to Caitlin for performing what is probably the best big scary tortoise impression that she has executed in her short life to date! The tortoise is holding up a pillar of some sort, and this type of monument was seen quite a lot in Korea. Unfortunately, myself or SwissToni are unaware of what it the pillar represents or what the symbolism is though. The tortoise does look a little cheesed off it has to be said. Could it be that the tortoise is an ancient relative of one of these fellows?!
* Yeeeeeeeeessssss!!!!
1 comment:
The turtle represents longevity, strength and endurance, and maybe this is why pillars are built on top of them (not real ones, but stone turtles...it'd be cruel otherwise)
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