I made this drawing back in 1986 and as such it prefigures the Stone Dance. It arose spontaneously from my subconscious and I don't even myself fully understand its iconography. It is the image I have chosen to put on the home page of this site - though in a transformed form...I will make some comments about this, original image.

The mask Carnelian is wearing is of blue stone. It was of this material rather than gold that I imagined all the masks of the Masters were made.

The glyph above his head identifies that this is Carnelian. In the first couple of registers are the components 'stone' + 'blue' over 'face', thus 'blue-stone face' which was how I originally wrote the Quyan 'mahar' meaning Lord of the Chosen. The third register reads as 'stone' + 'red' which is 'carnelian'. The final register has 'face' with the 'stone' component superimposed which is 'marakal' or 'mask' which at that time I thought wrote 'marua' or 'House (of the Chosen)' and the 'dragonfly'...

You cannot help noticing that the heraldic dragonfly is everywhere on the image. This was because I initially believed that Carnelian was of the House of the Dragonfly, until I discovered that his cypher was the chameleon... It was Jaspar and House Imago who inherited the dragonfly cypher...