#antidiluvian

[hollowones]

Andrew Ferez " Baba Yaga " house ☻

[theartisanalgrammarian-blog]

What It Really Means: Deluge

“Deluge” has two primary meanings, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionaries: “an overflowing of the land by water” and “a drenching rain.” Hurricane Harvey brought both.

The word comes from the Latin “diluvium,” meaning “a flood.” The French turned it into “deluge,” just as they turned “abbreviare” into “abregier” (in English, “abridge”) and “assuavidare” into “assuager” (in English, “assuage”). The Artisanal Grammarian has no idea why speakers of French like to change the “vi” sound to “dg,” but evidently they do.

The word “antediluvian” also derives from “diluvium.” More directly, it comes from Thomas Browne, an English physician and author. He coined it and hundreds of other words, including “electricity” “suicide,” and “veterinarian." You can seek them out — if you possess the stamina — deep within the dense thickets of words that make up his sentences.

“Ante” means “before,” so we can guess that “antediluvian” might mean “before a flood.” In this case, Browne had specifically in mind the great flood of the Bible, which Noah rode out in his ark. The word quickly came to refer also to anything particularly ancient or outmoded.

The Artisanal Grammarian wishes the best of postdiluvian luck to all those affected by Hurricane Harvey. — Sir Thomas Browne and Lady Dorothy Brown, his wife, painted by Joan Carlile sometime before 1680, via Wikimedia Commons 8/31/17

[hymnrevival]

BEFORE THE FLOOD Dr. Lambert Dolphin by hymn Revival Via Flickr: BEFORE THE FLOOD Dr. Lambert Dolphin “The earth before the Flood of Noah was a very different place! Our long years of educational brainwashing in the mythology of evolutionary theory and an old-earth has numbed us to the clear testimony of the Bible that God's intervention in human affairs during the time of Noah, the tenth man from Adam, changed things forever on our planet.2 Since Old Testament chronologies are actually quite complete, we can date the Flood as most likely occurring between 2500 B.C. and 3400 B.C.- depending on our choice of the Masoretic Hebrew text or the Greek Septuagint of the Old Testament, respectively. The earth before the Flood seems to have possessed a uniform sub-tropical climate. There may have been no rainfall, no ice and snow, and no major seasonal changes. (For instance, palm tree fossils have been found in Alaska, frozen warm-climate mammoths in Siberia, and coal in Antarctica.) The oceans would have been much warmer, and earth's rivers and streams may well have originated in powerful springs such as the spring that supplied the four rivers of Eden.” read more @ www.ldolphin.org Hymn Revival

[njamil21]

Happy birthday @solifeaulprime!!!!

I promised myself I wouldn’t forget it this year, haha! I wanted to try my hand at Cheren again because her design is so unique and give her a little bouquet of flowers to celebrate (irises for valor, chrysanthemums and yellow roses for friendship, and crocus flowers for cheerfulness).  I’m so happy to have you as a friend and I always get so excited to see your art on my dashboard! I hope you have a great birthday today and I wish you nothing but the best!

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[njamil21]

FANbruary sketch for @solifeaul/ @solifeaulprime‘s OCs!

These are Tayla and Cheren, characters from solifeaul’s original story called Antidiluvian! I wanted to draw these two chatting together while sitting on top of a wall and waiting for the rest of their group to catch up. I kinda messed up the wall, but over all, I like to think I did an okay job of getting their likeness down.  You should definitely check out the original design’s on solifeaulprime’s art blog, they’re so cool! I’m glad that you’re following me and I hope you enjoy this piece, solifeaul!

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[njamil21]

FANbruary wips for @rainbowdoom32, @solifeaul/ @solifeaulprime, @life-and-signs-thereof, and @riallasheng! These are their respective OCs!

I have a lot of school work to do, and I plan to upload those too, but I wanted to get these wips out so that you can comment and ask for adjustments on them! I want to make sure I get them just right!. I put some comments/captions on the individual pictures so I can share my thought process and or things that I plan to work on.

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[n-e-x-u-s]

In those days there were two races of the old giants. The first of black hair, tall and beautiful, their skulls lengthened and prolonged, wise and true. The second of red hair, truly giant, huge and beastlike. The first were the friends of man, the second turned to cannibalism.

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