Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is an artwork by Chinese contemporary artist and political commentator, Ai Weiwei. The work comes in a small (gold) and large (bronze) version. Created in 2010, the zodiac heads (a Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig) are inspired by those which once comprised a water clock-fountain at the Old Summer Palace, which is a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing that were constructed by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. The Old Summer Palace was eventually destroyed by French and British troops in
Ayla (name) or "large". "Aaliyah" is actually the female form of "Aali" and is an unrelated name. The Turkish variant of "Aaliyah" is closer to "Aliye" not "Alya." Ayla can be seen to bear similarities in phonetics to the word "aura". "Aura" has its etymological roots in Greek. The Greek words "aer"—meaning "mist" or "air"—and "aura"—meaning "breeze" or "breath"—came to be connected to the concept of the east wind and dawn radiance. Ayla (name) Ayla is a common feminine given name in Turkish. In that language, it means "halo of light around the moon". Less commonly, it is also encountered in other