Trinkets of the Mountain Mother
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Trinkets of the Mountain Mother
Out of curiosity, what show is Satyr from the Styx parodying? I’m personally a fan of Minotaur in the Middle, ha ha, but I love pop culture references like that, they bring me joy
it's parodying a show that doesn't exist, it's called lore olympus- 💀😆
Love to imagine actual show parodies in LR
Like "I think of Metis" or "I dream of Onieroi"
I'm working on something that involves some hieroglyphics. So guys, if you happen to know how to read and write them, please let me know if I'm wrong because I'm clueless lol I'm doing my best lol
Oh boy, pardon this long thing, I will do my best to simplify my explanation.
(Please understand this is mostly middle Egyptian vocabulary, things can change depending on when (time wise) your using this)
Hieroglyphics are partly phonetical (sounds) and partly pictorial (specifying the range of meaning)
This language is EXTREMELY homonyms based (so many) so determinatives are important.
In a usual structure there is two or more phonetics, these come first in the words. However there are some that are pictorial (symbolism, figurative) in value. Then there are determinatives at the end of words, following phonetic signs and give the specific range of meaning.
Ancient Egyptian started out as a pictorial language, each symbol once (in early vocabulary) for an entire word (like a cow for cattle, waves for water, etc.)
There are 134 phonetic signs, followed by 180 determinative signs
Another note to be made, there are no vowels when writing this language, as it is similar to Hebrew (and similar semetic languages)
Here is where things can be very complicated, sentence structure, as there are 3 types
The Complete (Or Verbal) Sentence
This is where the VERB is the principal position at the beginning of the sentence
Ex order;
Verb. Subject. Object.
Sedem sekhtï kheru
(Hears the peasant a voice)
Or
Mern ef su
(Loved he him)
The Incomplete Sentence
The Incomplete (or simple nominal) is a sentence WITHOUT a verb (this cannot translate into English, thus, upon translation, we inserst a verb)
The order is
Subject. Predicate.
Ex;
Nuk neb ymat
(I [am] the Lord of graciousness)
Or
Ren-ek nefer
(Name thy [is] beautiful)
((The words in [ ] are simply inserted for easier understanding, as they are not actually part of the sentence structure, but so show what is missing))
Finally, we have—
The Incomplete (Compound Nominal)
Compound Nominal sentences is formed upon the simple nominal sentence but with the verb inserted.
Order example;
Subject. Verb. Object.
(The forms of verbs used in this are specifically A (intransitives and passivies) and B (with transitives))
This one tends to be more complicated out of the 3, I'll do my best to explain.
Intransitive verb ex;
Subject. Verb.
Subject.
Yau (old age)
Verb.
Hau (advances)
Yau hau
(Old age advances)
Transitive verbs ex;
Subject.
Yhu (childishness)
Verb.
Her may (upon renewing (i.e. is renewed)
(Please know, the word [Her] in the language is an infinitive)
Yhu her mau (childishess upon renewing)
If any of this is confusing (or isn't enough) feel free to ask, there is so much more to this language when it comes to understanding.
as we are rapidly approaching pride month, here’s an obligatory reminder!
AROMANTIC PEOPLE
ASEXUAL PEOPLE
AND AROACE PEOPLE
ALL BELONG IN THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
I WILL REMOVE EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY IF YOU SAY OTHERWISE
Today my best friend and I have discovered that there are Minecraft players who are actively using the skins we made.
We love this.
It's such a joy to know people like our characters designs (even if they have no clue on the world behind it)
Like we have an endermen who wears a cute little sun hat and necktie, his lore is insane and we love to know that someone is actively using that skin with no context behind who "Baptiste" is, lol.
happy fucking pride month we should never have ceded to let drag queens speak for trans women
I should just go back to fashion design, I miss it
I made a battle axe out of monster cans
Internet crush <3
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i just got back from a trip to japan
the US is a complete shithole compared to any country with actual well designed cities i knew it was rough living here but holy shit
The classic experiences of figuring out you're asexual include:
1) "There's something wrong with me."
2) "There's something wrong with everybody else."
3) "There's something wrong with me but thank God."
4) "Everybody experiences things differently." (There's something wrong with everybody else.)
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Murder Drones Oni Press's "Home" Tracing
Before I start I want to make one thing clear, DO NOT use this post as a reason to harass the Oni Press artists , I'm sure they tried their best with what resources they had. Tracing is generally frowned upon in the artist community, for published pieces at least, however the only traced thing appears to be the actual Glitch episode which it's adapting and that is very different from say tracing an other artist that is unrelated.
With all that being said lets see how many panels are actually traced.
Lol literally the first proper drawn panel and it's traced. So from what I can tell from the tracing it seem to just be for the sketch layer and they do actually alter a few things to actually make it there own but the red lines I add show where the shots line up exactly.
Ended up just combining these panels into one comparison for the sake of keeping the image count down. The backgrounds seem the most traced so far but the front drone head was traced, the rest of the body seem to be drawn themself. I did need to move the guys body to the left a bit to line it up.
The shelves and bottles are traced and honestly I can't blame them those shelves are evil, I know cause I've drawn them too.
This one might be a bit of a stretch but they do line up oddly well.
Again only the head is traced.
the background is traced and so is Tessa. The fact Tessa is traced makes it so this is actually a panel were Tessa looks good, the humans look very odd in this comic.
So only the horse is traced but I wanted to point out they took J's whale plushie away which is a crime. /j
If your gonna trace you could at least trace the doll house too, why's my girl in the brown void.
The reason Uzi's hair is sticking up is straight up because they used a frame where her hair is still moving I can't. Had to rotate a few things to fit better, this is also a great example why tracing can be bad, V looks very off because she's just traced and the artist didn't use their knowledge of how to pose a character in 3d. Not strictly related to the tracing but it's impressive that even when it's trace the designs are still off, Uzi's triangle chest screen is white, her under shirt is missing, so are her sweater logos, she's gained a belt? and N has black pants and shoes.
Almost didn't add this one as it's such a small thing but I realized I was counting all the tracing.
Oh boy I'm at the image limit of tumblr so I'm gonna have to continue in the reblogs, I'm only half way done by the way. I want to mention this also, this is ONLY the traced drawings there are a few 1 to 1 recreations of shots that don't appear to be traced, a lot of them actually, but I don't feel like pointing them all out as I'd almost just post the whole comic at that point.
I'm just gonna add a ... if I have nothing more to say on the shot
This was the first drawing I noticed that was traced while reading as the head was actually pretty 3d which, frankly, the other drawn heads aren't, their pretty flat looking. I also want to point out a mistake they seem to have thought where the teeth meet one another was where the lip is when it's actually pulled all the way up to the screen in an unnatural wide smile. It resulted in V having this weird lip fang?
Her bangs are wrong, their cut straight.
Had to do some editing to get it to fit but this one was pretty clear.
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Small nitpick but I hate how they removed all the blood
...
Both N and the backgrounds are traced
This is a mash up of a lot of shots so I tried my best. It's not a great mash up as Winged V part has the ground up way higher then the left side of the image so the prospective is all weird.
I have once again reached the tumblr Image limit and were only on page 21 out of 30, It's also 22:40 so I might do the rest tomorrow.
I lied I'm doing more
Only the cage is traced, the TV was not added, which is sad I always thought it was a fun design.
It being traced makes the fact all the caution stripes are gone stand out way more.
This one isn't even TRACED it's straight up using a screen shot and applying the binarizatioon filter and using that as your line work. Not even well look at the guy in the middle that you can see the ground through. You can also see the artifact of the filter on the table as the food trays caused black lines to appear but there are no actual food trays in the comic.
Omg this bricked my computer and had to reset it.
Didn't line them up great but you get the idea.
There are a few changes but it's clear that the sketch at least started by tracing, the door also line up.
I have to share that right as I started looking at this panel, SolarSparky said that this was one thing the comic did that he did like, I had to be the bearer of bad news.
Pretty sure the stuff on the tray is traced too but likely from a library of stock items, which is what those things are meant to be used for so not a big deal but I thought it was worth mentioning.
The shelves were traced.
Despite tracing they still missed the giant eye patch.
Don't think I got the exact frame it's trace from but you get it, I'm not checking every frame of that scene.
And that is once again the 30 image limit, this time I am actually gonna stop as it's now 1:06 and I have shit to do tomorrow. My Clip Paint also crashed again so that's also a good reason to stop. All that being said we're only at page 26 out of 30 so there are more tracing.
Mysteries of Despoina
The worship of the goddess Despοina at Lykosura probably reflects an ancient Arcadian tradition. In the cella of the Temple of Despoina, the renowned sculptor Damophon from Messene crafted a colossal marble statue group (measuring approximately 5.80–5.90 m in height), which the majority of scholars have dated to the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd century BC. The cult statues of Lykosura illustrate a female group comprising four figures: the goddesses Artemis, Demeter, Despoina, and Anytos. Artemis is depicted as the goddess of hunting, accompanied by a dog and a quiver. Furthermore, Artemis can be identified with Hekate, as both goddesses were depicted with a torch and snakes, and Artemis was also the sister of Despoina and daughter of Demeter according to the local Arcadian tradition. In this representation, Demeter is depicted holding a torch in her right hand while her left rests on Despoina’s right shoulder. She was depicted as a seated statue positioned alongside Despoina. Despoina, the Mistress, was depicted holding a scepter in her left hand and a mystiké kíste on her lap with her right. According to Pausanias description: “Demeter holds a torch in her right hand, while the other lays upon Despoina. Despoina holds a sceptre and the kíste on her knees, which she holds with her right hand. On both sides of the throne: by the side of Demeter stands Artemis clad in a deerskin; she has a quiver on her shoulders, and she holds a torch in the one hand while in the other holds two snakes; beside Artemis lies a hunting dog. By the statue of Despoina stands Anytos, as an armed figure. The priests of the sanctuary say (maintain) that Despoina was brought up by Anytos, who was one of the called Titans. (……) The legend about Anytos is based on an arcadian tradition”.
The myth about Despoina’s birth is also based on a local arcadian tradition. Despoina was born after the secret coitus of Demeter and Poseidon. While Demeter was searching for her daughter Persephone, Poseidon pursued her. The god transformed into a horse, thus enabling him to rape the goddess. According to this tradition, daughter was born through this coitus, whose name was forbidden to be revealed to those who were not initiated to the Mysteries of her mother Demeter. The cult of Despoina in Lykosura is related to this religious tradition, as evidenced by Pausanias's account of his visit to Lykosura, in which he states that: “The Arcadians venerate this goddess among the most gods, namely Despoina. They say (maintain) that she was the daughter of Poseidon and Demeter. Most of them use the name Despoina, which is a byname of the goddess, just like the other daughter of Demeter and Zeus, who was called Kore, although her primary name is Persephone (…….). I was afraid to reveal the name of Despoina to those who were not initiated.”
It is challenging to determine with precision whether the origins of the cult at Lykosura can be attributed to a period preceding or contemporary to that of the worshipping cult group. However, there is evidence that indirectly speaks of its antiquity. It can be reasonably inferred from the available sources that the sanctuary of Lykosura was the site of ancient cultic activities. The sacrificial rituals that Pausanias describes during his visit to the temple may have been the inheritors of an older tradition. Furthermore, the terracotta statuettes from the Archaic period, which were discovered at the Megaron in Despoina’s sanctuary, offer valuable insight into the practice of older cult activities. The votive figures are both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, with most of them holding an animal in front of their torso or a basket over their head.
In addition, a bronze tablet from the late Archaic Period (c. 500 BC) that was found on Mount Lykaion is recent evidence about sacrifices and festivals sacred for Zeus Lykaios, who – according to a local myth – was born and brought up on it. J. Heinrichs examined the tablet and postulates that the cult of Despoina may have originated in the 6th century BC. This is based on the connection he draws between the name of the goddess Despoina and Kachila, whose presence according to the scholar is evidenced by the appearance of a goddess on some coins from Arcadia dating to the 5th century BC. Furthermore, J. Heinrichs hypothesises that Kachila’s name is also mentioned in the tablet and that she was Despoina in her youth who was venerated with Zeus Lykaios.
In Arcadia, the cult of Demeter and Despοina at Lykosura, where the mysteries in honour of the goddess Despοina were held, was considered one of the most important mystery cults. The cult group of Lykosura, apart from Anytos, is accompanied by attributes related to the secret ceremony during the initiation process and the myth about Despoina in Arcadia. Considering the available descriptions by Pausanias and archaeological findings, it can be surmised that the attributes accompanying the goddesses were as follows: Artemis was depicted with a torch and snakes, Demeter with a torch and Despoina with a scepter and the mystiké kíste. The preserved head and part of the torso of Demeter and some garments, in particular the decorated garment of Despoina, contribute to our understanding of how the goddesses were dressed and they can also lead us to interpret the mystery cult in Lykosura. The secret character of the Lykosura cult is similarly corroborated by the Tritonesses, the marine figures that decorated the throne of Demeter and Despoina. The female figures are depicted carrying the mystikaí kístai, or secret baskets, over their heads, symbolising the religious regulations. These figures could be also characterised as “Kistophorai” in a way.
The figure of Demeter, the mother of Despoina, is depicted as a seated woman, clad in a girded chiton, while a long-folded veil also covers her head. Demeter is depicted holding a long torch, a characteristic attribute of the goddess. With her left hand, she leans on Despoina’s shoulder, while her head turns towards her daughter. The connection between mother and daughter is also evident in this cult group, as in Eleusis. The fact that the two deities are sharing the throne indicates the significance of their collective worship in Lykosura. Unfortunately, Despoina’s head was not discovered during the excavations. However, the discovery of parts of her torso, her garments, and her attributes allows for the reconstruction of the figure.
The divine figure holds the scepter in her left hand and the mystiké kíste in her right. Despoina is responsible for maintaining the secrecy of the rituals, reminding of Persephone's role in Eleusinian mysteries . The goddesses are not identical, but they share common characteristics. The decorated garment rendered in relief has been extensively studied by scholars as a symbol of the cult practices in the sanctuary. The various topics depicted in relief by the garment represent the multifaceted character of the cult. Other findings from the same area, such as terracotta snakes, also confirm the link between the Mysteries of Despoina and the underworld.
According to the inscription from the 3rd century BC, dedicated to the goddess Despoina, purple, flower-coloured or black clothing was not permitted for dedication. Consequently, visitors to the sanctuary were prohibited from wearing these colours or garments with these decorations.
The preserved decorated marble garment from the Lykosura group, discovered in the cella of the temple of Despoina and depicted in relief, also suggests such a religious interpretation. The fragment is exhibited in the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and it is 1.13 m high. It is divided into zones depicting figures and ornaments. The various zones illustrate different topics related to Despoina’s cult and rituals in the sanctuary. Consequently, we observe ornaments, eagles and thunderbolts, olive leaves and fruits, Tritons, Nereids, dolphins and a kétos from the zone of the ‘marine thiasos’. Furthermore, in the lower part of the garment, Nikai are depicted carrying censers. At the bottom of the garment, we see the so-called 'Animal zone'. This zone features figures, some of whom are depicted on animal masks, and they are leading a dance ritual procession probably before the initiation to the mysteries.
The eagles and thunderbolts, for example, in the second zone of the upper part of the garment attest to the presence of Zeus in Arcadia. Zeus was the most venerated god on Mount Lykaion, and it is known from ancient sources that his cult was widespread in the Peloponnese. The hypothesis that mythical connections between Zeus-Demeter-Persephone, and Poseidon-Demeter-Despoina, are reflected in the representation of Zeus' as well as Poseidon's symbols on the garment is also conceivable.
In the central zone, the figure of the Nikai, depicted as a flying figure holding censers as cult objects, can be related to the ritual procession during the teleté at Lykosura. The zone allows for a variety of iconographic interpretations, as it dominates the garment and emphasises its religious character. The Nikai, who also represent the victory of life, nature and its vegetation at Lykosura, are related to Demeter and Despoina as the goddesses of nature and fertility. A similar religious characterisation can be observed in Eleusis. Demeter and Persephone represent the power of nature and the happiness derived from its regrowth. If we accept that Despoina, the daughter of Poseidon and another daughter of Demeter, was also connected to the underworld as Persephone, then the presence of the Nikai on the garment symbolises the life and rebuilding of nature. As daughter and mother, whose relationship to Megale Meter was undoubtedly strong, they were responsible for the fertility of the land and its fruits.
The human beings depicted on the bottom of the garment, who accompanied the goddesses at Lykosura, depicted as animal-headed figures, can also be paralleled with the myth of Demeter and Despoina. For example, the equine masks are closely connected to the cult of Poseidon Hippios at Lykosura. The ritual dance contributed to a deeper connection to the divine, both mental and psychic.
— Mysteries and interactivity: the relationship between Demeter-Persephone at Eleusis and Demeter-Despoina at Lykosura, Sotiria Dimopoulou
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Collection of progress
Internet archive links to books I've started to recommend if you care about indigenous people and anti-colonialism.
The Wretched of the Earth
Discourse On Colonialism
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Borderlands/La Frontera
As We Have Always Done
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Books I couldn't find on the archive but still recommend you purchase or check out at the library: