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Sky and Water I
Sky and Water I is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in June 1938.
The basis of this print is a regular division of the plane consisting of birds and fish. Both prints have the horizontal series of these elements—fitting into each other like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle—in the middle, transitional portion of the prints. In this central layer the pictorial elements are equal: birds and fish are alternately foreground or background, depending on whether the
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Austronesian Australian.
- Altjira, Arrernte creator and sky god
- Baiame, southeast Australian creator and sky god
- Bila (sun), cannibalistic sun goddess
- Binbeal, god of rainbows
- Bunjil, Kulin creator and sky god
- Numakulla, a pair of creator and sky gods
- Rainbow Serpent, creator god in many Aboriginal cultures associated with water, rain, and rainbows, though strangely for a sky deity it also has a chthonic connection
Austronesian Malagasy.
- Zanahary, sky