#rainbow serpents

[jellyfishinajamjar]

Behold, my Seraphon themed Marines

The Rainbow Serpents!

A successor chapter to the Rainbow Warriors who are definitely not loyalist Alpha Legion I super prommie ;)

I plan to use them in my crusade as a unit of Scouts or Assault Intercessors, using the big snake icon in the Saurus Warriors kit like an oldmarine 'backpack banner' thingy for the Sergeant

[2mysticmoons]

Rainbow Serpent Dreamtime Story - Japingka Aboriginal Art Gallery

Rainbow Serpent Dreamtime Story - Japingka Aboriginal Art Gallery

Rainbow Serpent is an ancient Aboriginal spirit force from the Dreaming – he is connected to water & guards & protects sites & culture, at J

By: David Wroth, Japingka Gallery 🐍

"The Rainbow Serpent (Serpant) dreaming in Aboriginal society represents one of the great and powerful forces of nature and spirit. Connected to water, the Rainbow Serpent is the great life giver, and protector of water, which is his spiritual home . . ." 🌈

[draconesmundi]

Smaugust Day 31: Deity

Here we see two deities: Ayedo Wedo (the rainbow serpent) and Mawu-Lisa, sometimes just Mawu, sitting in her mouth. Often Ayedo Wedo is not accompanied by Mawu-Lisa or Mawu (Mawu is in herself a powerful deity, but when she marries Lisa they become one being), there are a lot of versions of this story throughout West Africa and also in Vodun traditions practiced in Haiti and elsewhere in the world.

So the version depicted above is the story where Ayedo Wedo carries Mawu-Lisa in her mouth while the deity creates life for the world. The rainbow serpent, as well as carrying Mawu-Lisa, will gauge out river channels with her coils and create mountains with her dung. Her final task is to hold up the sky.

In Vodou traditions, Ayedo Wedo marries another serpent, Damballah Wedo, a serpent of the sky, and through their union they create a ‘spiritual nectar’ which is a sort of fluid that travels through all of us (it’s er... the fertile fluids... if you catch my drift?). Ayedo and Damballah are loa, which is not a term that translates easily outside of Vodou but loa are powerful spirits with agency, often equated to deities.

In the image above I have taken several artistic liberties: firstly that there’d be a firey glow everywhere, I just thought the firey glow looked good. Secondly, this is the Dracones Mundi blog so Ayedo has been reimagined as a dragon from my book, with colourful spots, a dark head, a white collar, teeth full of orange bioluminescent venom (usually only the rear fangs but for arty reasons it’s all teeth in this image), and thirdly as this is a Smaugust prompt I’m calling Ayedo a ‘dragon’, but this is based on my loose interpretation of the word dragon so feel free to disagree. If I have made glaring errors in this post, let me know, the information on Wikipedia has been updated since my last draft of Dracones Mundi so I’m learning new versions of Ayedo Wedo! (also there are many different spellings as her mythology was originally in oral traditions)

Smaugust has been a huge challenge, especially as I was a lot busier than expected. I spent three days doing Smaugust and drew a lot of art out of order (this post is being written on the 22nd of August...) but it’s been a great incentive to do artwork to promote this Dracones Mundi project and I hope we have all had fun!

Shout out to @saint-nevermore​ for this prompt list which has kept me entertained for a month: https://draconesmundi.tumblr.com/post/625107202033778688

[gracedoesart]

Rainbow serpents