Amaru - San Diego, CA
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Metro2
N 32° 42.821 W 117° 09.759
11S E 484757 N 3619558
This creature is depicted on many of the lighting structures in San Diego's Horton Plaza mall.
Waymark Code: WMNXQF
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/20/2015
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Many of the lamps and lamp posts at Horton Plaza display this creature which is part fish and part bird. It has a fish face and feathered wings and tail. It may be an amaru..an Incan mythological creature similar to a dragon.
Wikipedia (
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"In mythology of Andean civilizations of South America, the amaru or amaro is a mythical serpent or dragon, most associated with the Tiwanaku and Inca empires. In Inca mythology, the amaru is a huge double-headed serpent that dwells underground. Illustrated with the heads of a bird and pumas, amarus can be seen emerging from a central element in the center of a stepped mountain or pyramid motif in the Gateway of the Sun at Tiwanaku, Bolivia. When illustrated on religious vessels, the amaru is often seen with bird-like feet and wings, so that it resembles a dragon. The amaru was believed capable of transgressing boundaries to and from the spiritual realm of the subterranean world."