#myth challenge

[sapphistic]

2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day two — favorite greek/roman deity pair/group or myth creature: MEDUSA gorgon with the ability to turn onlookers to stone.

A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy grew in my mind, which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes as though my thoughts hissed and spat on my scalp.

[…]

I stared in the mirror. Love gone bad showed me a Gorgon. I stared at a dragon. Fire spewed from the mouth of a mountain. And here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue and your girls, your girls. Wasn’t I beautiful Wasn’t I fragrant and young? Look at me now.

— Carol Ann Duffy

[sapphistic]

2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day three — favorite egyptian deity: BASTET goddess of cats, protection, joy, dance, music, family.

“Mother of felines, Mother of night 

Great Mother of shadows, hunter without light

Teacher of independence 

 Keeper of the Keys 

 The wisdom of focus, the wisdom of peace”

[sapphistic]

2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day one — favorite greek/roman deity: persephone goddess of underworld, springtime, flowers and vegetation.

“Mother you don’t understand;

I made Hades run to me.

He saw my bones beneath

And offered me half his kingdom

Do you really thing I ate the fruit unwillingly?”

[sapphistic]

2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day seven — favorite chinese deity: CHANG’E goddess of the moon.

“and there was a time 

when I, too, wanted to 

escape to the moon 

(was it escape or exile?) 

 the moon palace is your home 

and all you have left on earth 

cannot be found 

in the universe’s empty eyes 

(do you remember being human?) 

symphonic cicadas, 

seven thousand fireflies, 

summers melt into sunsets, 

and I wonder 

if you ever look back 

 (was your heart too heavy to carry?) 

I see meteor showers 

silver tear stains 

too quick to grasp 

(do the heavens weep for you?) 

(or do you weep for us?)” 

— Fio Huang

[sapphistic]

2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day five — favorite norse deity: SKADI goddess of bowhunting, skiing, winter, and mountains.

“Some days the cold

seems to follow

me, an only

me,

as if I too

am made of nothing

but frost

and the darkest

part

of night.”

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2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day six — favorite norse deity pair/group or myth creature: THE NORNS female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men.

“Thence come the maidens

mighty in wisdom,

Three from the dwelling

down ‘neath the tree;

Urth is one named,

Verthandi the next,–

On the wood they scored,–

and Skuld the third.

Laws they made there,

and life allotted

To the sons of men,

and set their fates.”

[thatsplicingadventure]

A couple for the myth challenge! A Kelpie and a Pixiu. The Pixiu’s head is made of six bits of Pokemon alone!

[thatsplicingadventure]

Ah I’m embarrassed it looks so bad lol Sorry it’s so small…

Made a Chimera for the Mythical Creatures splice. This is my first time doing something like this on this scale, so sorry for the quality.

A Chimera is a mythical Creature that’s said to have the body of a lion, head (And sometimes feet) of a goat, and the tail of a snake (Often with a snake head on the end)

For the lion I used Entei, for the goat I used Gogoat, and the snake is Seviper. I liked sevipers colors as they were, so I left them as is, but combined Gogoat’s and Entei’s brown coats.