#sohrab

[dt75artblog]

another fullbody art. here's king sohrab!

[rainboopz]

everyone point and laugh!!!!!!!!!!

[rainbabbles]

made a horrible discovery

[eye-of-enigmatic-thought]

[ID: Traditional art of a humanised P03 from Inscryption, though now repurposed into a original character named Sohrab. Sohrab is a tan skinned Iranian nonbinary with a rectangular face, a large nose, and combed over black hair. Xe wears a black jumper with black trousers and shoes. Sohrab's legs and right arm (our right) are prosthetics due to being a triple amputee. First image has Sohrab greet and say "Yo!" with a mischievous look as he waves hi with xer prosthetic clawed hand. Second image is a small fullbody of Sohrab standing whilst holding a cane with xer prosthetic, now looking more like a anatomical hand. Next to the fullbody is a half body of a shirtless Sohrab putting on its prosthetic arm. Third image shows Sohrab with a disappointed expression. End ID.]

What was originally a human P03 design became its own thing due to me liking the design too much. Hopefully the inscryption crowd will still like my 'grumpy Iranian lad' design xD

On the more oc side... say hi to Sohrab! Xe is a Iranian roboticist that goes by it/xe pronouns! Sohrab is in the same headworld as John and takes care of them and their robotic body.

[biracayipadam-veng7]

Bir çöpçü gördüm ,kavun kabuğuna secde ediyordu .

Annem nehrin hatırasında bardak yıkıyordu...

[adelphiaxo]

darius the great was a good book, would def recommend. apparently theres a second book :0

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[kiwihellenist]

Myth of father vs. son combat

A common but not very well known myth:

A woman has a liaison with a man who is travelling far from home, or leaves her for some other reason. There may be a powerful sorceress involved too, or they may be the same woman. The man departs, leaving a recognition token with her. Unknown to the man, she gives birth to a son.

The son grows up miraculously quickly. When he asks his mother about his father, she passes the recognition token on to him. Either the son goes in search of his father, or the father returns one day.

The father and son end up fighting, usually in an error of mistaken identity. One of them is mortally wounded. As he lies dying, the token is finally recognised, and they belatedly realise each other's identity. But the sorceress knows of a magic that will save the dying person, or even bring him back to life after he's dead. Fetching it may involve a quest. Once it's fetched, it may work, or it may be too late.

The legend appears in both ancient and modern India, ancient Greece, mediaeval Ireland, mediaeval Persia, Germanic poetry and saga, 19th century Russian byliny, and 18th-19th century Faroe Islands. So it seems to be an Indo-European thing.

I'm a Hellenist, so I know the Greek variants best. Many elements don't appear in the extant fragments of Eugammon's Telegony, but they're there in later sources. The resurrection magic is in Theon; the recognition token is in Dictys of Crete and in Sophocles' lost play Euryalos.

But the others have their fascination too. A special weapon appears in some - Cú Chulainn's gáe bolga, Hildibrandur's sword, Telegonus' spear. Some versions explore variants on who kills who. Ilya Muromets and Sokolnichek take turns; the Hildebrandslied has overlaps with a Scandinavian version where the father kills the son; Odysseus kills one son (Euryalos) and is killed by another (Telegonos). The relationship between the women is fascinating too: Chitrangada and the Nagini Ulupi, Circe and Penelope (also echoed in Circe and Calypso?), Aífe and Scáthach.

It's tough to pull this material together, esp when some of the sources aren't available in a modern translation.

Images, top to bottom:

a manuscript illumination of Rostam killing Sohrab;

the sole surviving ancient depiction of Telegonos;

a manuscript illumination from a Persian version of Jaimini’s Ashvamedha.