By Vurdlak on April 15, 2007, with 49 Comments
Hy guys (and gals)! Just came home from my trip to Austria (Graz), so just a quick update, so that you know I’m alive and well. I’ll write more in the evening, but here is one illusion for all your “Optical Illusion of The Day” widgets and gadgets, so they can update them selves with new optical illusion.
Illusion you see below was submitted by Fabián Vargas, and even though I’m not exactly certain, I believe it pictures a Saint. More precisely – St. Georgius, the saint that is often showed on a white horse, with a sword in his right hand, above the dragon that represents evil. In the beginning of Christianity, dragon symbolized paganism. By the legend, St. Georgius fought the dragon on the beach, outside of city walls. He killed him to protect the king’s daughter which was meant to be sacrificed to the dragon.
Who would tell that religion can be so interesting ;) In many paintings, along with St. Georgious, there was a princess pictured in the corner, while praying for her savior. All these details made me spot similarity with this painting. When you look at it, first you’ll see is a face of young man/girl, but if you look at her/his hair, you can see a person on a horse, fighting with evil dragon. I believe the big face belongs to praying princess, and the hair represents battle with the dragon. Correct me if I’m wrong…
(22 votes)
FIRST
nice illusion. first post!
i dont get it
if i’m correct, the big face is the same as the face on the horse. they are the same person.
you will be able to see the same scene by looking at the hair of the man on the dragon
Kwizzle
It looks too much like a guy to me…
why is there a box around the girls head?
fo’ shizzle
Anyone any clue why there’s some cubical kind of wireframe in the drawing?
Adrian
(and Vurdlak: I’d not mind if you would reject all those “First” posts, though it makes me wonder why people would expect to be the first when they know the reactions are moderated and not visible realtime…)
cool
I like chicken foshizzle my nizzle I can take you down to chinatown.?/!@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
I like this one. It reminds me of Eragon – which I watched again last night.
FIRST!!!
I dont know whats wrong but it wont let me see the picture…
I WANT TO SEE THE PICTURE
*sigh* It is a man people.
It would be who most know as St. George, and the dragon represents evil or the devil, not paganism.
its st. george no georgius
yeah,
St Georgius is St. George, in latin.
it is true that dragon represents evil, but not devil directly, instead paganism, which the church was fighting against. (“false” rituals, idols, witchcraft etc…) browse wiki…
I want to know why there is a piece of paper there, and what does it say?
I have seen this picture before; and I am quite familiar with it. This is a picture of Atar and the dragon Azhi Dhaka. Atar is the son of Ahura Mazda (like the car). Atar is the god of fire who chained the dragon to that big mountain northwest of Tehran, Iran.
This tail :) is very similar to the story of the garden of Eden. The serpent being the dragon.
wow
The dragon was revered as a god in pagan myth, so in Christianity it was shunned as a creature of deep evil. Fire, the giver of warmth and light, was seen as hell.
looks like triple entendres to me… btw the guy who did the 14th post says he is fourth. Its like trying to be sad and failing, becoming even sadder
It’s beautifully done. If you find out more about it I’d like to know where it is from, whether old or recent and who the artist is/was.
Wow! but what is there a cube frame around it?, what is the folded letter about?
that’s really kl! well done Vurdlak!
I see a sphere inside of a cube… and wtf is the note at the bottom of the image about???
I don’t know about the cube around his head, but the large head is St. George’s. You can tell because of the halo around it.
Nice illusion,
A) I am with Adrian – kill the meaningless ‘First’ updates unless they actually have a comment…
B) I’ve the same issue as Not At Schol Anymore – I cannot see the image. I’m running Firefox… is there an issue with the method of delivery?
Thx
Tom
Well, I may be wierd, I saw St. George and the dragon before I saw the face…..
I can’t see the picture either. there isn’t even the little red x when a picture won’t load.
I can’t see a picture either.
Thanks for baning the first comment thing I stopped reading the coments it was so annoying.
I can see no picture at all. It must have vanish from the post.
I SEE IT I SEE IT!!!!!!!! :)
Does anyone besides me notice a Droste effect in the picture? The head of the figure fighting the dragon is the same as the big picture itself, and I would assume that the head in THAT one is also the same.
Anyone who read comment #4 :)
I actually saw St George and the dragon before I saw the girl.
I actually saw this up close recently and something is bothering me….
Does anyone know why a Catholic saint is framed by the Jewish Tree of Life?
It’s been bothering me for days…
the face of the person on the horse is the same as the big face
heh heh heh. coolo!
i c… big face… knight fighting dragon… and pheonix at big face’s collar
I saw the dragon and knight first
at first i couldnt see the dragons i saw the dude almost imeditally
Thats not even a illusion
im with me
I saw the Dragon and Knight before I saw the man/women
This is one of my favorite illusions and one of my favorite pieces of art. Actually the large person is also St. G. And if you can look closely at the the small knight in his hair, you will see that the small knight has an even smaller knight in his hair, and that smaller knight has an even smaller knight in his hair, etc.
i think z big face is supposed to b z same face of the man on z dragon…….