Champions represent especially powerful or adept warriors.
They appear to represent boxers, archers and warriors, all standing upright, barefoot and with legs slightly parted.
Personalities represent warriors, courtiers, scholars, monks and creatures of the empire.
They represented their gods and warriors in rudimentary sculpture.
For much of history, nude men represented martyrs and warriors, emphasizing an active role rather than the passive one assigned to women in art.
A procession with lanterns gave way to a fiercer ceremony for masked dancers representing mythological warriors.
There were only ten figures pinned to the small support plank, but these represented 100 heavily armoured warriors bearing round shields, spears and short swords.
The kattai-wearers represent superhuman - divine or demonic - warriors who are the main agents in the mythological battles around which the performances are built.
The statues represented warriors of ancient Hellas, naked save for helmets, with short swords and shields held in attitudes of attack.
They may represent Aztec warriors, Christian saints or comic book superheroes, but they always fight for the common man - workers, farmers and the poor.
