What does your nick-name and your avatar mean?

[Shiu']

Let's move the forum. Expand if you want.

My Avatar is the emblem of Quetzalcóatl (Feathered Serpent); It was the symbol of the Mesoamerican worldview (Toltekayotl). It is like the cross for Christians and the crescent for Muslims.

Quetzalcóatl more than a deity or a man-God symbolizes an abstract concept that represents the universal energy power and the power of human consciousness, which manifests itself cyclically -positively and negatively- in the social. That is why it symbolizes the returns of Quetzalcóatl.

It is a cut snail whose spiral represents time and its points the cycles, symbolizing the cycles of social manifestation of the Feathered Serpent.

It was common to put the emblem on top of temples and the high sages wore it as a chain. Here are some representations in art:




Paintings of Quetzalcoatl with the emblem:

[Urbanuss]

Well, my nick is literally a vehicle name...

[Shiu']

My nickname, Shiu' or Xiuh, is a Nahuatl word that alludes to the color turquoise or jade: a color that represents beauty, freedom and evolution.

[Shiu']

My nick is literally a vehicle name...

You work in that?

[Urbanuss]

You work in that?

No

[Shiu']

No

Explain your avatar, it looks interesting.

[Tongio]

My username is that of a character of a fictional book, on the time romans were invading Lusitânia.
The name of the character comes from a real site in northwest Portugal called Tongóbriga
My photo is a piece of atlantic rain forest, native tô eastern and southern Brazil.

[de Burgh II]

de Burgh is a Anglo-Norman surname that derives literally from an aristocratic dynasty ("House of Burgh").

Avatar is the "Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin" which is a reference to the helmet that Turin Turambar wore in the Lord of the Ring's book that I read called "The Children of Húrin."

[Shiu']

My username is that of a character of a fictional book, on the time romans were invading Lusitânia.
The name of the character comes from a real site in northwest Portugal called Tongóbriga
My photo is a piece of atlantic rain forest, native tô eastern and southern Brazil.

Interesting. What is the name of the book?

[Longbowman]

Longbowman.