#telchines

[galusandmalus]

btw telchines are in Dionysus ' army. I feel like no one talks about that like bros got satyrs, centaurs, nymphs, and telchines, and even cyclops like bro Polyphemus is right there and his nymph gf fighting side by side. damn indians and perseus really fighting a whole ass warhammer chaos invasion

[troutwithfur]

For the curious, Telchines have their gills on their backs.

the fins that line their spine unfold into large gill fans when they go underwater. Telchines can fold their gills back into fins to move faster or to keep them from being damaged. Their gills are orange like their flesh, as blood oxygenates in their gills.

[kitzatara]

Mermay day 3: Bizarre And Cool Variations

If you’ve ever thought to yourself “is there more than just fish mermaids? Are there different kinds of fish mermaids?” Well theb congratulations. You prove that people have always been people, because we’ve been coming up with different varieties of merpeople since at least 400 BCE.

From what I can tell, Greece was the first to make more interesting variations. They created the Telchines and Ichthyocentaurs. Telchines have several descriptions but among them are dog like and mermaid like hybrids. It was said they had the heads of dogs and tails like a fish. Sometimes both and sometimes only one. They were said to know magic and were eventually cursed by the gods for using foul and evil magic. Ichthyocentaurs are so interesting to me because they are centars with a fish tail instead of hindlegs or tritons with two horse legs on their tail.

Ichthyocentaurs spawned several other similar looking mermen designs including tritons with clawed forefins on their tails, wings, and in roman times lobster and crab claws on their tails. This then spawned a crayfish triton and sonewhere in between we get two tailed tritons and tritonesses.

Inuit cultures in the far north of Canada and Greenland had a sea goddess named Sedna. Who by some accounts had a seal, orca, or whale tail. It’s hard to pinpoint when belief in Sedna began and exactly when Sedna developed mermaid iconography but she has always been closely linked with sea mammals and sea life.

In Chilé tales of the Millalobo and his merchildren who had sea lion tails were prevalent. Said to be gods and had golden hair. Pincoy was Millalobos son and his sister wife Sirena Chilota who had golden scales not too dissimilar from Suvanamaccha who was a golden tailed mermaid.

The yawkyawk of Aboriginal myth was said to have seaweed for hair. A similar aesthetic to tritons who were often described with blue skin and green hair.

One of my personal favorites is the Sazae Oni who could shapeshift into a human form. And in its demon form it had the lower half of a mollusk. Making it a very rare mermaid like creature with a shelled lower half. It has a rather wellknown story of stealing pirates balls in exchange for gold. It was also known to travel to inns and devour the innkeeper at night.

Avatea from cook islands myth was half fish on the left side as opposed to from the waist down.

Interestingly enough there doesn’t seem to be any octopus hybrids in mythology. You could maybe argue Scylla was the first tentacled hybrid but she wasn’t really depicted as half octopus and was more similar to the hydra or a dragon. Cecaelian creatures seem to be a unique creation of Disney’s little mermaid.

[effulgentpoet]

mythology aesthetics

THE TELCHINES

In Greek mythology, the Telchines were four mysterious sea-god magicians and smiths native to the islands of Ceos and Rhodes. They invented the art of metal-working and were said to have crafted the sickle used by Cronus as well as the magical trident for Poseidon which the god used to lever mountains into the sea to create the island of the Aegean. Their malignant use of magic later angered Zeus, who cast them beneath the sea.

[galusandmalus]

they remind me of telchines Also bronze age art outside of minoans and mycenes is interesting

[galusandmalus]

I've DONE IT, FINISHED TitanQuest 1, and it's Greek mythology DLC!

This game is a sleeper ngl, not big story game but more like diablo but greek mythology, very addicting. they wild to make the Telkines the main villains

incredibly underused monster.

tbh theres not that many good greek mythology games out there but this is definetly one of the best you got fucking so many monsters in here lol and gameplay is so addicting. maybe too addicting whelp back to hades or something

[galusandmalus]

im i tripping or is there no ancinet art for Telchines? Like these daemons actually seem pretty prevalant in ancient literature so its kinda weird that they dont actually have any art for them.

[troutwithfur]

whats your sci-fi world?

the HP-7verse (as i like to call it lol) i a sci-fi worldbuilding project I'm doing. Most if it takes place in the early 2500s, after a German deep-space research vessel's Remnant Drive breaks and they crash into the then undiscovered planet that was later named Habitable Planet 7 (HP-7 for short).

Before we get into current HP-7, we must go over it's history. The previous civilization on it about half a million years ago were a foolish people. They used up all their oil & most of their other natural resources, forcing them to fight for what remained. This went nuclear, resulting in all the craters you see on the surface. What few survived the nukes fled to the ocean, as they were a semi-aquatic species with the ability to breathe underwater. This sudden lifestyle change, heavy doses of radiation, and the fact life on HP-7 has 6 DNA bases instead of Earth's 4 (meaning that evolution happens a bit faster on HP-7), forced this species to evolve into the Telchines.

Telchines aren't much different than their ancestors, except for the notable lack of the second pair of arms that most HP-7 life has. Telchine history is long but all you really need to know right now is that they were in their equivalent to the 1980s when Humans first crash landed on their planet. Telchine society as a whole is still going thru major technological whiplash now that they're introduced to all the hyper-futuristic tech of the wider galaxy. They have access to FTL travel, but most Tel still use black & white cameras that were common just a decade back. It's really funny to see. (All art made by @oberorka! Go follow her!)