Reapers & Grim Spectre of Death Journal Pages
I'm back posting journal page updates! Apologies for the delay; it's been a busy holiday period.
So here are my journal pages for Reapers and Grim Spectre of death
These were a challenge compared to most other journal pages as they are very detailed and it took a few attempts to fit everything in to mirror screen accuracy.
Here is a screencap of these two pages from Season 2, Episode 1 - In My Time of Dying:
I also found a spread of the two pages from the TV set tour over at theTVaddict.com:
This definitely helped recreate the two pages.
The left image I found to be referenced to "A European depiction of Death as a skeleton wielding a scythe" from wikipedia page "Personifications of Death" here
The text on the left reads:
Reapers-Mot 'Death', Son of 'El, according
to instructions given by the god Hadad (Ba'al)
to his messengers, lives in a city named hmry
('Mirey'), a pit is his throne, and Filth is the
land of her heritage. But Ba'al warns them:
that you not come near to dive divine
Death, lest he made you like a lamb in his
mouth, (and) you both be carried away like
a kid in the breach of his windpipe. Hadad
seems to be urging that Mot come to his
feast and
submit
himself
to Hadad.
Death sends
back a mes-
sage that
his appetite
is that of
lions in
the wilder-
ness, like
the longing
of dolphins
in the sea
and he ---
threatens
to devour
Ba'al him-
self. In a subsequent passage Death seemingly
makes good his threat, or at least is deceived
into believing he has slain Ba'al.
Numerous gaps in the text make this portion
portion of the tale obscure. Then Ba'al/Hada
Hadad´s sister the warrior goddess Anat,
comes upon Mot severs him, splits him
with a blade, winnows him in a sleeve, burns
him in a fire, grinds him between
mill-stones and throws what remains
on the field for the birds to devour.
But after seven years death returns, seeking
vengeance for the splitting, burning, grinding
and winnowing and demanding one of Ba'al
brothers to feed upon. A gap in the text
is followed by Mot complaining that Ba'al
On the right, the image appears to be a 'death' tarot card image, which I found to be part of a real tarot card deck called "Ancien Tarot de Marseille" from 1977.
The text on the right is:
has given Mot his own brothers treat, the
the sons of his mother to consumelite -
consume. A single combat between
the two breaks out scribbling until the Shapsh 'sun'
upbraids Mot, informed him that Ba'al
has given Mot his own father 'El will turn
against him and overturn his throne
if he continues. Mot concedes and the conflict
ends. In Sanchuniathon also death is son
of 'El and counted as a god, as the text says
in speaking of 'El/Cronus... and not
long afterwards he consecrated after
his death another of his sons, called Muth,
whom he had by Rhea; this (Muth) the Phoenicians
esteem the same as Thanatos ['Death']
and de Pluto.
But earlier in a philosophical
creation myth Sanchuniathon has referred
to great wind which merged which with
its parents and that connection was
called Eros 'Desire': from its connection
Mot was produced, which some say is mud
and others a putrescence
of watery compound; and
out of this came every
germ of creation, and the
generation of the universe. So there were certain an-
animals which had no
sensation, and out of them
grew intelligent animals, and
were called "Zophas-
emin", that is "observers
of heaven"; and they we-
re created formed like the
shape of an egg. Also Mot
burst forth into light, and
sun, and moon, and stars,
and the great constellatio
ons- The language
scribbling here is confusing,
a bad summary and possibly
corrupt, and the form
Mot here is not the
same as Muth which
appears later. But it
may be that the full
and coherent account
would have made clear
For these two pages you'll need black pen, yellow highlighter, red pen and blue pen to achieve screen accuracy replication.
