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[CANAAN] 'NT HBLY, 'Anat the Destroyer, rides eagerly off to battle.

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[CANAAN] Shapash, Lamp of the Gods, Luminary of the Heavens, Eternal Lady. Based her appearance/complexion off some of my cousins from Nazareth*. I'm also obsessed with West Asian sun goddesses as opposed to the typical western association of the Sun with masculinity.

*Minus the giant hydrogen stars in her face.

The mythological evidence for this is super scarce due to its fragmented condition, but I like to think that Shapash was "created" by El the same way El was supposed to have created the world, his chief wives Asherah and Rahmaya, and Mot. His first step to becoming a girl dad. Also why she's his spitting image (he performed mitosis /j).

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SYZYGY - celestial opposition, usually that of the sun and moon. My superhero/Marvel oc/self insert, a human magician working as a vigilante.

His powers/magic is based on using jinn magic, accessing spiritual power from objects and places to turn it into energy. This applies to kinetic energy but ends up being monodirectional. Currently making my way through some Marvel comics to decide what kind of direction to take him in but I'm pretty happy with this so far :)

Details below!

Decided to go the typical arab magician/sorcerer route and have him work with jinn and spirits, which is why he's covered in all sorts of protective symbols and talismans (Palestinian silver coin jewelry meant to reflect the evil eye and black magic, said evil eye on the back of his gauntlet and henna'd into the palm of his hand, his henna having symbols such as palm trees, olive leaves, pomegranates and the Horns of Hathor, and his mask which has the Horns of Hathor forming the brows).

His suit is a very simplified design of a thobe from Nazareth, of course in different materials, with pants under a thobe that is split up the front and the sides and tied twice around the waist with a red belt. The thobe is tied on one shoulder so as to not tangle in the silver armored arm, which conceals a lot of orthopedic braces (since my joints subluxate and hurt often). The 'tatreez' is incredibly simplified to give it a more iconic "superhero" look.

The two different magic colors are supposed to symbolize the physical and spiritual. The right arm is armored in silver, a pure metal meant to repel bad magic, the manifestation of the physical. The bare arm is adorned in symbols, but meant to represent the hand that reaches through the layers of reality. Not sure how real this is in Islamic cosmology, but when I was younger my mom explained how jinn were there but we couldn't see them through the metaphor of the seven heavens/celestial spheres, where different layers of reality lie on top of each other like so many folds of cloth. In this analogy the jinn would exist within another layers to ours, with God overseeing and existing within all layers. So Syzygy's powers hinge on both supplicating and asking spirits and jinn for assistance while also being able to temporarily access these different layers one at a time (severely limited, severely exhausting, but can be used to 'disappear').

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[OC/FAE] "Pray, sweet girl, wouldst thou cometh closer?"

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to know thyself. a self portrait that sending up skewing towards the Fayum style.

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(imagine Tom Tom by Holy Fuck playing)

Syzygy goes to the Naqab.

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[OC/BTP] Lady Iseult D'Awleigh from her time in the cloistered life of an acolyte and druidess of Urathail

Acolytes of Urathail are willingly blindfolded as a rite of passage until they experience a 'revelation' and are brought into the fold of the mystery cult. Iseult ascended the ranks to an initiated Awakened, who carry meditative mirrors of polished steel.

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Anat's journey of vengeance to confront Mot.

Really tried to nail the "it's so hot it feels like all of my skin is going to peel off in one go" feeling of the Dead Sea basin. Please click on the image for best quality!

PLEASE NOTE: it's not really known where Mot's 'throne' is, and various translations allude to it being vaguely at the 'edge' of the underworld. I thought it over and realized that the lowest place on earth is quite literally right there and made the creative decision to make Mot's throne/palace a salt pillar at the Dead Sea. this is a purely creative decision and not really anything supported by literary evidence (as most of my stuff on Canaanite myth is).