3 Wild Goofy Goobers, Clearly Up To No Good.

A claim repeatedly brought up online, in some media, in antiquated “scholarly” works, as well as seemingly in the online lectures of a certain Canadian self-help guru who shall not be named here is that the „storm god slays chaos serpent” motif – so called “chaoskampf” - found especially commonly in the mythologies of ancient Middle East and Anatolia represents some allegorical tale about the fall of primordial matriarchy and associated religious figures, or a broader triumph of some abstract masculine principle over feminine. This assumption is entirely ahistorical, and its spread is only possible due to the fact that despite being among the oldest recorded stories of the world, the myths of Mesopotamia and culturally related areas remain largely unknown to the modern audience, making it easy for various dubious authorities to claim they contain what’s not exactly present in them. See, the problem is… the „chaos dragons” in most versions of this narrative aren’t even female. Additionally, most if not all of them aren’t vilified echoes of older figures, but merely antagonists devised for already popular gods and heroes and figures which belonged in both these categories at once to defeat. They’re not demonized “primordial earth and sea mothers” or whatever, they’re cheesy, hammy over the top saturday morning cartoon villains of their era. Like the titans in Greek mythology, Apep in Egyptian, and so on, the likes of Tiamat, Yam or Illuyanka never served a purpose different than that of an antagonist for an established figure. And, most importantly, only one of them, Babylonian Tiamat, famous for her role in the Enuma Elish (the epic describing the deeds of Marduk, the lead god of Babylon) and not much more, is female – and even Tiamat was likely developed based on older figures of such mythical antagonists, like Ugaritic Yam.

jack/slick as the demi-fiend. this is not a request, this is just an errant thought that came to mind.

WAR BROKE OUT IN SKAIA

Two wizards having a lovely conversation. 

What secrets could they secretly be sharing in secret?

demi-fiend drawings

A burnout break allowed me to organize my procreate folders and drawings and I found some things I never posted here. Introducing the idea nobody asked for: ‘Magolor but he’s the test tube cat from 64.’

I’ve also been trying to sketch again, which I can if I turn my brain off which is good since even if I can’t focus I can still pick up a pencil and draw images.

The Embryon Tribe + Atma Avatars

DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA  ▴   dev. Atlus, PS2, 2004

SPAPTOM DIGIMON because I think its only fitting that the internet’s new favorite little digital monster get turned into an actual… Digital Monster. I definitely see him as one of the weak “junk” Digimon like Numemon that have unexpectedly powerful evolutions!

Also it turns out drawing in the digimon style is SUPER FUN and i should do it more often

more under the cut!

Seguir leyendo

this outright looks like it comes from devil children/demikids, hey maybe it WAS a design for aitvaras that would appear in those games but they scrap it and i guess either doi or atlus we’re lazy and just re used it

Aitvaras. A.I.T.V.A.R.A.S AiTvArAs

What the fuck is this

Land of Curses and Silence

Land of breath and quartz