Indalo Man
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Owner:
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Released:
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Origin:
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South East England, United Kingdom
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Indalo Man depicts a cave painting found somewhere in the Las Velez mountain range of northern Almeria, Spain, in a caved known as La Cueva de los Letreros (Cave of the Sign) in 1868 by local archaeologist Antonio Gongorra Martinez. The true meaning of the painting has been lost over time, but is thought to be of a prehistoric god holding rainbow in his open arms. The image is considered locally to be a good luck charm and when given to someone who then places it over the door it will bring good luck and will protect the house.
Due to the fact that the most common symbol in the cave was that of a man holding a rainbow (the ancestor of our current Indalo man) local villagers took to daubing the outside of their homes with this symbol, converting him into a modern day superstition designed to ward off evil and storms. It has been said that after the Mojacar and Vera earthquakes, locals in these villages (which were both destroyed in the 17th century) took to imitating their northern neighbours who had escaped lightly.
In 1924 the area in which the cave is situated was designated a National Monument of History. On the 5th December 1998 UNESCO declared it to be a World Heritage site. Currently, the cave is off limits to visitors.
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