UPDATED: King of the Dead updated for jigsaw puzzle design

King of the Dead: The Lord and Keeper of the Underworld, His Majesty: the Taker and Giver

This piece of art was updated by adding in the neck/collarbones/bone halo to breakup the bottom 1/3 that was originally just fur. This makes for a much more interesting jigsaw puzzle design. Available at www.awolfillustrations.com
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This is a representation of the King of the Dead is human in form and his crown is composed of bones, thorns, pikes, dead trees, an Unkindness of Ravens, an assortment of moths, maggots, and abandoned, decomposing castle spires, all of which symbolise death. The symbol in the center of the crown is a representation of a maze into the centre of the mind and how once one passes from the existence of life there is an opening into a high plain, illustrated by the passage upward. It is an allusion to a symbolic ascent described by religion but more importantly also to the existence of other plains of reality. The inclusion of planets is to show that life is a universal concept and also that the universe is largely cold and dead and empty.