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on Aralez from Armenian Mythology by Mardiros H. Ananikian (image)
Aralez - armenian mythical winged dog
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Preliminary round 13
Which Mythology dog?
Aralez (Armenian Mythology)
Anubis (Egyptian Mythology)
Aralez art credit here
Greyfang Bjöorf
& Dante napping
Deviantart
My submission for @zestydoesthings monthly challenge, I chose to focus on the myth of the Aralez. I think I missed the mark for this challenge as I didn’t really do a mash up of the myth but more of an interpretation of it . But I’m still happy with my good boy.
PATHFINDERS - The Sylph Summoner
Update from the PF2E Remaster coming in late 2023: Genies native to the Plane of Air are now know as Jaathooms, due to Pathfinder trying to distance itself from the OGL.
I don't really know if I'm right about that, but the Summoner is one of Pathfinder's unique classes, both First and Second Edition, being a spellcaster linked to an eidolon, an extraplanar being that allows it to cast powerful spells, acting like a true pair in combat, with the eidolon being either a simple servant or a friend or even a spiritual guide for the summoner, whose link only becomes stronger and stronger over learning for both.
Having my younger sister as a summoner next to our crazy pooch as an angel eidolon - connected to outer planes like Elysium, Nirvana or Heaven -, I also chose her to be a sylph, which, like naaris and undines, has ancestry drawn from the Elemental Planes, being the sylphs more connected to the beings of the Air, like belkers, cloud dragons and, in her case, to the jaathooms, the genies of the Plane of the Air, which are also the most easily recognizable by us - Aladdin's Genie, for example, was a jaathoom. Both her weapon and the colors of her clothes show that she would be a devotee of Desna, the Song of the Spheres, that perhaps my sister would not follow just because her symbol is a butterfly, and she has motophobia - phobia of butterflies and moths. To turn our dog into an eidolon, I was inspired by the Aralezes, kind spirits from Armenian mythology, who revive fallen warriors with licks.
Armenian dog-spirits “Aralez”
art by @erinye
Aralez (Արալեզ) are one of the oldest spirits in the Armenian mythology. They are closely connected to the story of Ara the Beautiful (Armenian king) and Shamiram (Babylonian queen). When Ara rejected Shamiram’s marriage proposal, they started a war and Ara was accidentally killed. Then the aralez spirits came from the sky and licked him trying to revive him. They managed to revive him and he became the symbol of dying and resurrecting nature. “Aralez” originates from “Ara”- the king’s name and “lez/lizel”- to lick. When Mushegh Mamikonyan (well-respected Armenian general) died, his relatives put his corpse on a tower hoping that aralez would bring him back to life.
Eleventh Entry for Inktober / Octobestiary is an Aralez! Make sure to get lots of kisses from the goodest of boys.