The Pueblo Indians associated the eagle with the energies of the sun - physical and spiritual - as well as symbols of greater sight and perception.

The Hittites drew upon a double-headed eagle so that they would never be surprised. The eagle was a strong emblem in the Roman Empire. Zeus changed into the form of the sacred eagle to help himself control thunder and lightning. In ancient Aztec tradition, the chief god told people to settle at a place where they find an eagle perched on a cactus eating a snake. In Islam, the eagle represents warlike ferocity, nobility and dominion. The eagle appears twice in the book of Revelation both times in a context that suggests it is on the side of God. In early Christianity the eagle was seen as a symbol of hope and strength, representing salvation. As if to seemingly mirror this, the eagle has been used as a 'banner' by many of the great empires throughout history, from Babylon to Egypt, through to Rome and even the United States. The Native Indians saw the Eagle as a symbol for great strength, leadership and vision. Be patient with the present know that the future holds possibilities that you may not yet be able to see. Look at things from a new, higher perspective. Do not accept the status quo, but rather reach higher and become more than you believe you are capable of. About 60 people came out for the opening, listening to the artists speak about creating the posters and listening to Ukrainian poetry that was inspired by the war.When an eagle appears, you are on notice to be courageous and stretch your limits. In Manchester, Yadukha and Leliv spent Monday putting up the posters, which were printed at Dartmouth from digital files provided by the artists. They get the information which is the essential thing.” There is space between the real life and the message. “I realized that these pictures or illustrations work as an alternative media. Usually, when we see the photographs or videos, our mind blocks all this stressful information,” Yadukha said. “People get tired very quickly of these horrific events and the news. They are both at Dartmouth and felt that an exhibit of war posters chronicling the first year of the war would be a way to overcome American fatigue around the long-running conflict.

The exhibition was the inspiration of Veronika Yadukha and Hanna Leliv, translators who fled Ukraine and arrived in the United States in September. Another shows masked workers in white hazmat suits exhuming a mass grave. That poster features a soldier, blood on his chest and white bandages on his head, gripping a red snake in each hand that represent Russian forces struggling to encircle the city. Others serve to document the most dramatic events of the war like the Mariupol theater attack or fighting in Bakhmut, which has become the longest-running battle since Russia launched its full-scale invasion more than a year ago. One shows four people staring up at a missile featuring the Russian coat of arms and the words “Our Fire Is Stronger Than Your Bombs.” Another shows two people holding the Ukrainian flag in Kherson next to the words from the Ukrainian national anthem, “And We Will Show Brothers That We Are Of The Cossack Nation.” Russian had taken over Kherson in the early days of the war and Ukraine retook it late last year. Some of the posters on display in New Hampshire have the feel of classical war propaganda aimed at raising the spirits and rallying residents. The posters were shown previously at Dartmouth College and still can be seen as part of a digital exhibit. They are among eight artists who contributed 20 posters to the exhibit at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester that opened Monday. So, we started drawing,” Ivanenko told The Associated Press from the studio in Kyiv she shares with Polosina. “We understood that it’s a good pill, a good medicine for not panicking, for keeping yourself together. Polosina’s drawings celebrate a female gymnast and a young mathematician who were killed in missile strikes. In the exhibit entitled “Our Fire is Stronger Than Your Bombs,” posters from Ivanenko show children studying in a bomb shelter and Ukrainians fleeing the country soon after the war started. Some of their war posters are now on display in New Hampshire. Working in the early days of the war from bunkers or sometimes without electricity and water in Kyiv, they and other artists started drawing. (AP) - As Ukrainian artists Jenya Polosina and Anna Ivanenko watched missiles descend on their country, the two decided to use their creativity to push back against Russia’s invasion.

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