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Artwork based on @foundersweek day three prompt:

Any AU - Any Swap - Crossovers

That's right babyyyy another excuse for more bronze age art! Notes on what went behind this one under the cut.

So I decided to go more anatolian in region for this one, but with a deity slant again this time around, creating a look for Mito Uzumaki based off the deity Hatepuna. Hatepuna was known as the daughter of the sea, and was often considered the wife of one of two deities mainly; Telipinu, and Halki.

Telipinu is an agricultural, deity, and I'd argue also a storm deity, who was son to the big storm god in charge, Tarhunt. Telipinu has some pretty funny stories associated with him actually, including the one which explains how he met and married Hatepuna. I won't go into them too much here though; I'd recommend Harry Hoffner's Hittite Myths, second edition if you're interested those tales.

Halki is another agricultural deity, but is a funny case where they are both considered to be a man and a women depending on when and where you are in their career - however, whenever they're married to Hatepuna, they're assumed to be a man.

I thought it would be fun to come up with some designs for Hashirama and Toka as well based on those two, for the wall art behind Mito here, so that's what I ended up doing.

For clothing inspiration, I took some cues from the Yazılıkaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary. Here are some diagrams:

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I went with an outfit for Mito based on the clothing of the women in these processions here. There's a level of interpretation here from me; I went with a flowing dress, puffed sleeves, and a tall cylindrical hat with a veil piece to it.

There's a similarly shaped hat I kind of like from a relief that's from Carchemish of the deity Kubaba actually:

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Anyway, while I went with a stylized version of the uzumaki swirl for some of the decoration to Mito's outfit, I also used a hittite stamp seal for further decoration on her hat piece.

As to the seals she's wearing in her hair, I thought it would be fun to go with some hittite cuneiform, so that's what I did.

I decided to go with the with the word "huwanhuessar" which seems to translate to water related words like "wave" or "flood" here.

This alliteration was broken down further into "hu-wa-an-hu-es-sar" which helped me pick out the cuneiform needed.

(Source: Hittite Historical Phonology by Sarah E. Kimball)

The cuneiform I used was from a downloadable document from this unicode cuneiform font resource I found.

I cannot say for sure if I got the characters right! But hey, at least I tried, lmaooo.

I kept her necklace looking the same as the one in the series though, since it's important - the one Tsunade inherits, and later gives to Naruto of course.

As for Hashirama and Toka, I also took design cues from the same Yazılıkaya carvings - I thought it might be interesting to take some cues from Sauska, a hurrian deity as well for Toka. If you look closely at the reliefs, Sauska is depicted twice in both the men's and women's processions, in distinctly different clothing. I thought it would be interesting to take the cues from her clothing in the masculine lineup, considering my thought process going off of just Halki alone at the start of all this.

It's not unusual to see a goddess also wearing that kind of conical headwear in general. Here's another one from a stag shaped vessel in the met museum's collection:

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The deity in the tall hat you see here is also meant to be a goddess.

I had no idea how to incorporate Toka's hairstyle given the headwear involved, so I went with a modified hathoric curl braid you see a lot of deities have, and added the ribbon ties she normally has to it.

Those kinds of curling hair styles were popular in the ancient near east in general - a paper on that if you're into that sort of thing.

For Hashirama, I also looked at some designs from these little deity amulets I found, particularly for his big headwear:

Sources: British Museum Amulet | Louvre Museum Amulet

The way the crowns are etched kind of look like trees or plant growth, so I thought I'd incorporate that a bit into Hashirama's own design here. Although I'm not sure how well that comes across with the side view, but I committed to it, so hey. I also included the design from another hittite seal into his clothing, although you might not be able to see it unless you zoom in, lol:

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I did take a few cues as well from this relief of Tarhunza and the vines in Ivriz, even though that's decidedly more neo hittite, lmao. I just liked the idea of depicting him holding a vine bearing fruit like you see there, so I went with it.

Aaaand that's everything I remember off the top of my head! Maybe I draw the Toka and Hashirama some other time in the flesh instead of in wall relief art, lmao. We'll see down the line, I guess. Hope you enjoyed this little breakdown though, had fun with it.

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Another round my friend!!!

Toka

🍫 caffè mocha – what’s their guilty pleasure?

V'eiss

🔥 spicy lemonade – what makes them snap or lose their temper?

Ceicive

🍓 pink refresha – what’s something refreshing/new in their life?

Another round at the coffeehouse! :D

Toka 🍫 caffè mocha – what’s their guilty pleasure?

If he can afford a pleasure he doesn't feel guilty about taking it XD

But kinda within that: Taking duty leaves when they're not more pre-sanctioned like a repair stop or planetside leave would be. A spontaneous trip or period of rest makes him feel anxious about his billable hours, but they're also something that affords a lot more control of his activities than what's more of routine a pit stop for the ship, so he tends to enjoy them more aside from that aspect.

V'eiss🔥 spicy lemonade – what makes them snap or lose their temper?:

The way the Bad Luck Vulcan's family treats him. They see him as a disappointment and they've never really hidden that. They don't hate him or anything, but they're dismissive, overbearing, and needlessly sharp, and V'eiss just really can't stand it; He can feel their attempts to smother irritation from the moment they greet BLV and just feels it build and build and build throughout the visit and it feels so terrible, especially if they actually do manage to hide it from the BLV and V'eiss can feel his hope build.

Ceicive: 🍓 pink refresha – what’s something refreshing/new in their life?:

Well you mean aside from like, everything that isn't being in the collective? XD

Ok but honestly even Borgs aside, I do think this period of life is way more social than it was growing up, and there's just like really a lot more culture being explored by Cardassians as a whole in regards to art, music, spirituality, self expression, community, everything that was previously so clamped down on by the government. Granted he had some degree of insight into them from Aikalaein, but never this degree of freedom, especially in not even being on Cardassia anymore.

I doubt he feels that shift as strongly as his family does just given Borg occurrences and neural dampeners and such, but like he falls in love with a painter (a man, something that would have been something if not forbidden at least never acknowledged outside of an extremely private setting) and their (debateably) first date is in an art museum program openly on the hollodeck where they freely discuss as much as they can about everything they see, and I don't think that degree of full freedom is lost on him despite everything <3

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