@hetaween-event
For the Day 1 hetaween event : Folkand myth - Undead - harvest
"Ghana and Owuo, the cannibal god
In the past, before the nation couldn't fully understood what they were, they were mythologic as the gods were. Frightening gods from the myths, rampaging, protecting or distraughting humans.
Nation, deeply rooting with human, had to stand their frantic behavior. Often, only them could survive the encounter....
Ghana hasn't forgotten the day his eyes had wistand the one of Owuo, the abosom of Death, lured by the blood of the fellow peasant of the little village in full harvest season.
Not amount of magic could have saved from the immortal god that not even others of its kind could face. The 'undead' gorilla gazed at him with his unique eye, and his bloody smile still brought terror for decades, before the giant left.
Now, the memory slowly faded in his people's mind, but that one fear still lurk in his nightmare : no one, not even nation, can escape the eye of death."
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I SOOO wanted to draw some african country folklore! They are under-represented (granted, it is hard because I think it's mostly oral tradition) whereas I'm sure there is a lot to do with them!
I searched for a god of field or death, similar to Demeter and found in the akan 'deity' Owuo, described as a kind of sadistic god mowing human. Mowing, harvest...yeah, it could do!
I don't like creating too much OC for country, I wanted one that Himapapa had already draw, and Ghana was one of them! Of course, the time of the deity was ancient, so I draw him very young!
If you are interested, I found mostly the info on wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owuo
Note that Owuo has 2 apparences, and since I couldn't find much representation of him on internet, I fused some element from his description on my own interpretation.
