Orochi in Japanese mythology is a gigantic creature, so lead character designer Takeyasu Sawaki designed the back of the demon to include a garden and palace; this inspired the game designers to include a bell in those structures that would be Orochi's fatal weakness in the game.
Overlooking Bhutan's Paro Valley of blue pine trees from a height over 3,000ft, the temple is named after the 8th-century legend in which Guru Rinpoche flew to the spot on the back of a tigress to defeat a demon, after which he meditated at the temple site for three months.
For here a woman kneels as she begins to reveal something beneath a dark cloth (a phallus, it is usually imagined), while the winged demon whips the bare back of a girl who buries her face in her companion's lap.
He excludes Lamashtu and Pazuzu as candidate demons and states: "Perhaps we have here a third representation of a demon.
That is what's happening in a depiction of the demon Ravana, arch-villain of the "Ramayana," who sits, snarling and bloody-mouthed, on the back of an equally rabid-looking bird.
These include an 18th-century cotton jacket that has been intricately painted and dyed for the King of Siam's royal guard, its back dominated by the large face of a grotesque demon.
God (an angel, a ghost, a muse, or sometimes a demon) steps back and acquiesces, letting go from his hands those very things, those volatile feelings, those wisps of celestial fire — what should we call them?
