Drawing of a water yaksha, by  Coyote! :)

This was a gift he sent me at the beginning of 2000, featuring one of the nature spirits/demons from Buddhist and Hindu mythology. I could explain a bit about yakshas, but I’ll take the lazy way out and point you to Wikipedia instead. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaksha

Suffice to say that yakshas feature prominently in some canonical Buddhist texts, usually encountering the Buddha and afterwards reforming of their dastardly ways.