#malakbel

[nevernill]

Was looking at your old pokemon art and got super nostalgic... do you still play toys with any of your ocs from back then?

Very often haha, I even repurposed some of the really really old ones into a new fantasy-apocalypse setting. I really want to talk about them sometime, but for now here's a ho-oh character I've been redesigning recently. His name is Malakbel. He's some kind of priest-government official u___u

[tsalmu]

Altar relief of Malakbel in Syrian and solar Roman appearance.

Also featuring sacred tree and Kronos as a Senex with billhook/harpe (Pruning sickle in Greece, symbol of power in ancient near east). May represent ANE/Mesopotamian belief that Saturn was the sun of the night, or "the star of Saturn".

Rome, Italy c.250 CE Source: The Pantheon of Palmyra by Javier Teixidor, 1979

[defilerwyrm]

Malakbel (male candy, left) & Magec (female candino, right), year-old ball pythons. A great look at the difference between homozygous candy and heterozygous candy & albino, which are allelic.

[paganimagevault]

Sol Invictus, 2nd C. CE. Altar dedicated to the God Malakbel (Sun) and the Gods of Palmyra by Tiberius Claudius Felix, Claudia Helpis and their son, Tiberius Claudius Alypus, Marble, Roman artwork.

Inscription: "Soli Sanctissimo sacrum / Ti(berius) Claudius Felix et / Claudia Helpis et / Ti(berius) Claudius Alypus fil(ius) eorum / votum solverunt liben(te)s merito / Calbienses de coh(orte) III".

"There long ago he (Helios) lay with Rhodes and begot seven sons, endowed beyond all men of old with genius of thoughtful mind. And of these one begot he eldest Ialysos (Ialysus), and Kamiros (Camirus) and Lindos (Lindus); and in three parts they divided their father's land, and of three citadels the brothers held each his separate share, and by their three names are the cities called."

-Pindar, Olympian Ode 7. 54 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.)

https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post_1.html

[romansyria]

Bring back “building altars of you shaking hands with your fave deities when they’re good to you”.

Capitole, Rome.

[tknrart]

still more sun cunts

[tsalmu]

Malakbel (Angel of Bel) on Griffin-Drawn Chariot, Altar Relief Palmyra, Syria c. 100 CE?

[tsalmu]

Aglibol (right) & Malakbel (left, mostly damaged) grasping hands over fruit-laden altar Palmyra, Syria c.150 CE Source: The Pantheon of Palmyra by Javier Teixidor, 1979