#the apocrypha

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Leon Underwood (1890-1975), 'The Dream of Mardocheus', ''The Apocrypha'', 1929

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until the end, see how it shines

why did we never run, before our chance was gone ?

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The Apocrypha (A Facsimile Of The Nonesuch Press Edition Of 1924), slipcase, University Books Inc., 1962 (engravings by Stephen Gooden)

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Highlights from the Protoevangelion of James:

Mary's father is so ashamed of shooting blanks that he banishes himself to the desert; his wife prays for deliverance, so an angel tells him to go back home and he gets her pregnant

When Mary is born, her mother Anne considers her holy and so hires a bunch of virgins to carry her around so that her feet never touch dirt

When she's three, she's given to the Temple, where she lives until she's twelve, dancing for God and being fed by an angel

When she's twelve, the authorities realize they have to get rid of her before she menstruates and profanes the Temple. So they send word that every widowed guy / single man should show up and God will pick one of them to be her husband

God picks Joseph by making a dove appear out of the end of a staff; Jospeph is like 40 and doesn't want to take her because this is weird, but the High Priest tells him God will kill him if he doesn't, so he says fine, I guess

She's 12 and Joseph is super not into this, so he dumps her at his house and says, "I'll see you later, I guess," and leaves her there for 4 years

In that time the Temple realizes they need a virgin to weave the veil that separates the Holy of Holies from the outer courtyard, so Mary gets assigned to do that

When she's 16, Joseph has to report to Bethlehem with his whole household to register for taxes, so he returns to retrieve her. But she's pregnant, so he freaks out until an angel comes to him in a dream and tells him God did it

The Temple authorities find out about this and order him and Mary to show up and defend themselves; they then pass some obscure purity ritual so, eh, I guess God really did do this

On the way to Bethlehem, Mary goes into labor and so they go into a cave. It is filled with glowing magic light and Jesus just materializes out of her womb as a baby and starts suckling

Joseph gets a woman named Salome to assist Mary, and she doesn't believe Mary just gave birth, so she sticks her hand up her vagina, and and it gets burned to a crisp

But Mary says for her to touch Jesus with it, and she does, and it is instantly healed

Herod finds out about Jesus from the Magi and decides to kill all the babies his age to keep him from overthrowing him.

Mary's cousin Elizabeth, the wife of the High Priest, who has baby John the Baptist who is Jesus's same age, panicks and runs into the mountains to hide, and a mountain opens up and lets her hide inside it

When they can't find John and the High Priest won't tell Herod where he is, Herod just murders him in the Temple, where his blood turns to stone when it hits the altar

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Got tagged in the last line game by @the-apocrypha a few days ago. I wanted to share something that wasn't shared on my author thread on sadman discord before (join us if you aren't there and want to!), so here we are. Have a soft Hob by the awesome @amielot .

What is he doing? Well, he's blushed because that's NSFH (not safe for horse) 👀.

No pressure tag for @amielot @seiya-starsniper @seadeepspaceontheside @dragonnan and whoever wants to play (are you reading this? Consider you tagged!) 💖

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OC-TOBER DAY 10: DREAM

This piece was a really quick and easy one even though I had to redesign a character on the fly for it haha. I’m really happy with it though, I think she turned out looking really cool ^__^

This character is from my fantasy story ‘The Apocrypha’ which is an indie game developed by my OC Keyo in his own story! I’m never gonna develop it myself because I have no clue how so I gave it to my OC to do whatever he wants :]

Since she was a child, Arryn has had visions. Never were they prophetic, though—quite the opposite—they always tell the tale of events from the distant past. Historical events barely covered in ancient texts and only known by the highest of scholars would pour into her head day and night, and at the young age of 10 she was invited by King Ordello himself to live in Wynvalur Palace. Her family were unable to move due to a strong connection to their home and their lines of work, and so young Arryn moved all the way to Upper Alida on her own.

Palace scholars studied her relentlessly, unable to find a cause for her visions. The one thing they were certain of was that none of what she saw was fiction; it all really happened. Everything she informed her mentors about would be found just days later written in a dusty old book in the library that hadn’t been opened in centuries. There was something truly magnificent about this child. 

Now—at the age of 135—she is the Library Keeper and Master Scribe of the Alidan royal family and is recognised as an Honorary High Scholar. Her visions of the past have always been strong, but now they are stronger than ever before... often containing historical events completely lost to the sands of time. Her responsibility as Master Scribe is to record any vision she experiences in great detail to preserve the rich history of Alida and most importantly, the land of Efica as a whole.

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Mary Elizabeth Groom (1903- 1958), 'Ecclesiasticus (aka The Book of Sirach), ''The Apocrypha'', 1929

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John Nash (1893-1977), 'Judith'. ''The Apocrypha'', 1929 "The book tells the biblical story of Judith (Judith 13, 1-10). Here Judith kills Holofernes, General of the Assyrian King Nabucodonosor. While leading the siege of Bethulia, Holofernes, charmed by Judith, attends a banquet, where, having had too much to drink, he falls asleep and Judith severs his head. The latter then gives the head to her maid for her to show to her fellow citizens, thus saving her city. This story is the subject of many depictions in painting and sculpture. This is a rare biblical illustration by John Nash." (Source)