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Heres my redraw of Dumuzid!

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Morana, the deathly goddess of winter. Among the western Slavic peoples, Originally the sun god Dazhbog would parade across the earth all year long, making summer eternal. However while Dazhbog was journeying across the underworld Nav, he was seduced by the goddess Morana who fell in love with him. And while Dazhbog did love Morana he eventually planned to leave and rejoin his other wife on earth. Morana incensed, poisoned Dazhbog, forcing him to return to her embrace in Nav every year. It is during this time in which the sun lays in Nav in which Morana’s power emerges, covering the land in snow and ice. However, once Winter takes its toll, Dazhbog’s earthly wife comes down to Nav and rescues him from Morana’s clutches, letting spring usher onto the earth and forcing Morana’s powers back into Nav. Among the eastern Slavs, Jarilo is Morana’s lover, the two being children of the storm god Perun. Every year the two unite, their love blooming vegetation and life across the earth in summer and bringing together the antagonistic forces of Perun and Veles in peaceful unity. However, when Jarilo’s infidelity reaches Morana’s ears her rage leads her to murder Jarilo. But without her love, she becomes jaded and cold, her life rapidly draining in winter until she dies as well. However at the start of spring the two are reborn, with the cycle beginning anew.

Morana was most likely one of the most popular Slavic gods, being one of the few who held a presence in both the east and the west. But like with many other Slavic gods, her historicity is debatable. Since there are no primary sources of pre Christian Slavic mythology, it’s incredibly difficult to ascertain the depths of Slavic lore, especially since many aspects reported in sources detailing the mythology have been found to be false. In Slavic countries, Morana is inextricably tied to her winter ritual. This ritual entails the construction of a dummy made in the likeness of Morana donned with eggshells, this dummy is then paraded around the village, being dropped in every puddle while they travel to the nearby river, where they toss and drown Morana’s representative, sending her back to Nav to end winter. Sometimes the effigy is burned instead. This ritual most likely indicates that Morana is a surviving pre Christian Slavic god, her prominence across the Slavic peoples and the attempted quashing of her ritual by the Catholic Church compounding this. In the modern day this ritual is still practiced, but now it’s lost its spiritual significance, now seen as a fun activity partaken in winter. Owing to Morana’s prominence, she’s held many names across the other Slavic peoples, such as Mora, Mara, Moré, Marena, Morena, and Marzanna. Within Slavic mythology, Morana was heavily associated with her fellow goddess Devana, with the two possibly being seen as two manifestations or aspects of the same god. Medieval Christians conflated Morana with the Greek goddess Hecate, associating Morana with witchcraft. Later on Morana would be conflated with the Roman god Ceres for their shared association with agriculture. Morana’s role as the usher of seasonal change connects her with the other gods who share her archetype, such as the Mesopotamian Ereshkigal who captures Dumuzid for half the year, the Greek Hades and Persephone who’s stay in the underworld causes Demeter to begin winter, and the Nordic Ullr who rules the Aesir during the winter.

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Here’s my slight redesign of Nyame! Hope you like em!

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Amma, the Dogon axiom of duality. Amma is the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient creator of the cosmos. Amma contains both sexes, both male and female, but also Amma transcends sex itself, with them being the culmination of both dualistic forces. Amma formed the earth from clay, from the same clay Amma sprinkled the stars across the sky and formed the pottery that became the sun and moon. Amma then intimately laid with the earth, however because of a large termite mound blocking his way, the child produced by the two became warped forming the twisted Ogo. Amma removed the mound from the earth, and the next child produced was Nommo. Nommo was epitome of Amma’s creation, just like Amma, Nommo held both sexes. Nommo then divided themselves into several pairs of twins, one male one female, continuing Amma’s divine duality. Despite this, the wicked Ogo still lingered in the world. Ogo manipulated one of the Nommo, turning them against Amma’s order, breeding chaos across the cosmos. With the world threatening to collapse another Nommo stepped forward and offered themselves as a sacrifice. Amma flung the Nommo’s body parts into the wind, traveling across the world each location where they landed a new shrine to Amma would be built. This sacrifice corrected the cosmic balance, thwarting Ogo’s plans. As punishment, Amma cursed Ogo, transforming them into the jackal Yurugu. However, because of the disruption of the cosmic order, when the human descendants of the Nommo were created the fewer twins were born to uphold the cosmic order of Amma.

Amma is one of the many manifestations of the African supreme god archetype, alongside the San Kaggen, the Yoruba Olorun, the Igbo Chukwu, the Zulu Unkulunkulu, the Kongo Nzambi, the Akan Nyame, the Mbuti Khonvoum and Arebati, the Serer Roog, the Egyptian Ra, and the Malagasy Zanahary. Some have attempted to linguistically link Amma with the Egyptian god Amun, a god who’s greatly associated with another of the African supreme god archetype: Ra. Some have alleged that Amma is sometimes called Amen, a name which could link back to Amun. However I haven’t been able to substantiate such claims. In the 1930’s Marcel Griaule alleged that the Dogon creation involved Amma creating the universe from a cosmic egg, however like many of Griaule’s other claims this has fallen under scrutiny and is believed to have been untrue. In Dogon spirituality, the nyama, or spiritual energy, released after death is capable of being considerably destructive. So the Dogon perform masked dancing rituals in order to guide the dead souls into the afterlife with Amma. Amma’s removal of the earth’s giant termite mound is the basis by which the Dogon perform female circumcision. Mirroring the story, the Dogons would remove the clitoris from women, believing it to be a spiritual cleansing.

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Tiamat, the goddess of the oceanic abyss. Tiamat was one of two primordial gods, with the other being her mate Abzu. Tiamat embodied the salt water of the sea of chaos. Together with Abzu Tiamat bore their children Lahmu and Lahamu, becoming the first ancestors to all that existed. Many generations of gods were born, all descended from Tiamat. These gods became so plentiful that the rowdiness of these young gods disturbed and annoyed Tiamat’s love Abzu. Abzu planned to kill all the younger gods to achieve quiet peace once more, however, Tiamat refused to participate in his quest for annihilation. One of the younger gods, Enki, caught wind of Abzu’s plan and killed him in a bid to save his brethren. Tiamat flew into a rage at her lover’s death, swearing to kill every last of the gods and creating an army of monster to do battle with them. Enki’s son Marduk stepped forward as the younger generation’s champion, slaying Tiamat and defeating her monsters. From Tiamat’s corpse Marduk fashioned the earth and the sky.

Tiamat was the primordial mother goddess of the ancient Akkadian and Babylonian mythos. Distinctly, Tiamat has been often described as the first dragon with a serpentine body as described in the Enuma Elish. Congruent with this Tiamat’s appearance varies greatly, splicing animal parts in and out and having different levels of anthropomorphism. However Tiamat isn’t the first monster, being proceeded by the Sumerian monsters like Humbaba and Lilith. Tiamat was often called the mother of monsters, creating the likes of Ugallu, Uridimmu, Umū Dabrūtu, Mušhuššu, Ušumgallu, Girtablullǔ, Kusarikku, and Kulullǔ. Tiamat’s battle against Marduk is one of the many examples of the Chaoskampf archetype, seen in many myths such as Ra’s fight with Apep, Lugh battling Balor, and even Saint George’s slaying of the dragon. Tiamat and Abzu’s stances as two primordial dualistic forces links them to several other dualistic gods of other beliefs, like the Irish Danu and Donn, and the Vedic Purusha and Prakriti. Tiamat herself is believed to have grown out of the Sumerian primordial mother goddess Nammu. Tiamat’s name however can be tracked to ancient Proto-semetic, developing alongside the biblical chaos, Tehom. Tiamat’s archetypal battle could’ve grown out of a proto-semitic battle between Baal and the sea god who would eventually develop into Yam, alternatively possibly owing her origins to Asherah. Tiamat was known as Ummu-Hubur, meaning “Mother Watercourse” and was praised as the “One Who Bore them all”.

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Daramulum, the roaring lord of the sky. Darmulum manifests as a giant man with the bottom half of an emu and only one leg, his mighty voice thunders across the skies of the world. To those who worship him, Daramulum created the lands and planted the trees upon the earth, all the beasts that walked across it came from his hands as well. However, when a flood ravaged the earth, Daramulum turned the animals that drowned into humans and bestowed upon them their laws and way of life. During initiation rituals Daramulum would show himself to those coming of age, revealing his booming voice to them. However those who break Daramulum’s creed are punished. After teaching them Daramulum left for the skies with his wife or mother Ngalalbal. Among the worshippers of Baiame, Daramulum is his son with Birrangulu, making him the brother of the crow god Wahn. Usually Daramulum was worshiped to bring about rain and was believed to live within the earth with his Emu wife Ngalalbal. But among the Wiradjuri it’s said that Daramulum used to be the one who initiated and taught young ones on the laws imposed by Baiame by magically rebirthing them, or at least that’s what Daramulum told his father. But after numerous young men disappeared during their initiation, Baiame began to investigate. Upon asking the surviving boys about the disappearances they began to shrink away in fear. Baiame softly coaxed the young men, reassuring them. Eventually the boys relented and informed Baiame that Daramulum had lied, in truth there was no rebirthing process, Daramulum simply took one of their teeth as false evidence that he had done the deed. But that was not all, occasionally during the ceremony, instead of pulling out the tooth, Daramulum would tear off the face of the initiates and eat them alive. Enraged at his son’s crimes, Baiame swiftly destroyed him in battle, shattering his essence and scattering it across the trees of the forest where you can hear his still conscious voice roar out.

Daramulum is one of many examples of the Australian “Sky Father” or “Sky Hero” archetype, consisting of a primordial sky deity who creates the world and teaches humanity their laws and customs before retreating to the sky world. This archetype is prominent among eastern Australia, seen in many such gods like Baiame, Bunjil, Altjira, and Mungan. Their worshippers would even conflate them, as seen in them using each other’s terms and concepts like the worshippers of Daramulum using the wording of the Bunjil worshippers to explain Darmulum. These cults have even been known to view the other “sky fathers” as one and the same deity as their own. Among the sky father cults, including Daramulum’s, the term Biamban is commonly used in reference to their deity, with Biamban meaning “master”. Daramulum’s connection with Baiame is complex, according to some the two are brothers instead of father and son, this could be a result of conflation however. Which of the two came first, whether Daramulum was originally a son of Baiame or was adapted into the Baiame cults from interactions with the Daramulum cults, is unknown. According to some the name Daramulum is actually plural, and refers to all of Baiame’s children, though this is a seemingly minority sentiment. The mythos surrounding Daramulum was kept a tight secret among his worshippers, as women and uninitiated men weren’t allowed to learn his myths or even know his name, only knowing him as the chief spirit in the sky and referring to him as Papang, meaning “father”. There are many variations of Daramulum’s name, such as Daramulun, Darhumulun, Dharramaalan, Dhurramoolun, Tharamulum, Tharumulum, Yibai and Nurundere. The name Daramulum translates to “one legged” and sometimes “leg on one side” referring to his prominent monopedal trait. Daramulum is greatly associated with stars and Australian Aboriginal astronomy by the Kurinnggai, being said to be represented by the southern cross while his wife, like the god Bahloo, is represented by the Emu in the Sky. An important aspect of Daramulum’s worship is the use of the bullroarer, an instrument said to have been created by Daramulum, that when used creates a loud booming outcry that’s believed to be the very voice of Daramulum. Daramulum’s worshippers used the Bullroarer during initiation rituals to promote the presence of Daramulum. Like the other sky fathers, Elders described Daramulum as omnipotent and omnipresent, able to “do anything” and “go anywhere” with abiding by the natural laws created by himself. Daramulum’s worshippers say that with this omniscience Daramulum is always ready to strike those who break his laws with death illness and misfortune, however if one continues to follow his laws it’s said he becomes more lax overtime.

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El Sombrerón, the shadowy enchanter. As the cloak of night begins to spread at dusk the spirit El Sombrerón roams the land. El Sombrerón appears as a short man, cloaked in dark clothing while a large hat sits upon his head. When the full moon is raised in the sky, El Sombrerón goes on the prowl for young women to enchant and spirit away. There was once a woman with long hair and large eyes, and on the night of the full moon she was called out to the balcony by El Sombrerón. El Sombrerón, attracted to her beauty, began to play a serenade with his silver guitar. Every night onwards he played her his song, however she began to lose energy, unable to sleep or eat food as it was covered in dirt. To fix this her parents brought a cut of her hair to their local church, with the priest dousing it in holy water and offering her a blessing. As a result El Sombrerón left his hold on the parent’s daughter, leaving for lands unknown. El Sombrerón travels with horses or Mules and is known to regularly braid their hair, however sometimes he’ll braid the hair of local dogs instead.

Alongside La Llorona, El Sombrerón is one of many “boogeyman” folklore spirits in Guatemala and Latin America. His story is used to scare young women from leaving the house at night, however it is also used as a warning to women of toxic relationships and behavior used by men with ill intentions. The name El Sombrerón means “the hat man” in Spanish. El Sombrerón goes by many other names as well, such as Tzipitio, Tzizimite, and the Goblin. The identity of El Sombrerón varies, mainly he’s a nocturnal spirit that emerges at dusk, while in others he’s a demon, sometimes said to be the devil Lucifer.

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Here’s my third redesign of Inanna, this time in digital!

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Here’s my redesign of Saint George! Check out the breakdown twitter thread of his design here:

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Check out my redesign for Cybele, I have a full breakdown of its design on my twitter here:

Hope you enjoy it!

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Mirai | human form | casual clothing

After the events in Japan, Mirai tells Mio that the only clothes he own is for his school uniform. Pitying Mirai, Mio takes him shopping. Using her passion for fashion, Mio attempts to find something Mirai would like. After an exhausting search, Mio is able to find some clothing that Mirai enjoys wearing.

Prioritizing comfort over fashion, Mirai prefers to only wear soft and comfortable clothes. During battle however, when Mirai transforms, he takes off his shirt and sweater, exposing his markings.

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Mirai | human form | school uniform

Before the sky fell apart, Mirai went to school with his friend Himawari Kega. Unlike Kega, Mirai was an outcast at his school, avoided and ignored. He was the target of constant bullying and shakedowns by the school thugs, even with Kega trying to help him.

One of the reasons for Mirai’s ostracism was his demeanor. Coming off as weird and stoic, people steered clear from him despite only seeing his surface. In truth, Mirai doesn’t express or feel his feelings the same way most people do, leading to his quiet and reserved nature.

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Armazi, the Georgian bronze god. Not a single shred of the mythology surrounding this deity survives, leaving them in the obscurity of mystery. The only evidence of their existence comes from the later traditions of Armazi’s fall from worship. Said to have been erected by the first king of Kartli, Armazi was the chief god of Caucus Iberia. The Christian saint Nino was once invited to a feast held by Armazi’s worshippers. They took Saint Nino to the Idol of Armazi, it was a tall and imposing bronze figure, draped in chainmail armor, eyes of emerald, on top his head lead a helm of the crescent moon, and in his hands he gripped a sabre of lightning. As the feast began, Saint Nino began to pray, causing the statue to be struck by lighting and destroyed by hail. In another rendition it’s described that Armazi had a potent conflict with the Chaldean god Itrushana also known as Itrujan. In their battles it was described that Armazi fought with the sea as his weapon. However it was Itrushana who destroyed Armazi’s idol. Either way the destruction of the statue lead to the death of Armazi’s worship, supplanted by Christianity.

The history of Armazi’s worship is incredibly muddled and difficult to track from the lack of records. Armazi himself is not the only Georgian chief god, as the sky god Ghmetri was worshipped in the rest of Georgia. Ghmetri was the supreme creator god, who fathered the sun and moon. Armazi himself most likely grew out of that moon god mentioned previously, absorbing and taking some of the aspects of Ghmetri as he became the chief god. However, Armazi also holds deep ancestry to foreign gods as well. Armazi and by extension the original Georgian lunar god, may have been the Georgian rendition of the Hittite deity Arma. A lunar god as well, the deity Arma shares the same etymology with Armazi. Armazi is also theorized to have been connected to the Zoroastrian chief god Ahura Mazda, similarly to Arma, Armazi shares etymology with the divinity, with evidence of the presence of Zoroastrianism in Georgia as well. Armazi isn’t the only descendant of that Georgian moon god, as under the name Tetri Giorgi, Saint George also holds ancestry with the god. Now the patron of the moon and storms, Saint George’s reverence in Georgia synchronized with the moon god’s worship, leading to him to now be a successor of the Georgian mythos.

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Cironnup-kamuy, the sacred Ainu trickster. One of the myriad Kamuy, Cironnup-Kamuy’s Ramat manifested the World’s Foxes, Racoon dogs and the other tricky mammals of the land. However during the land’s infancy, while the Kamuy still proliferated their Ramat across the earth, the Kunne-Kamuy emerged from the ground, ascending from the Mire of Tenei-pokna-moshiri. The two groups of Kamuy fought over who would inherit the earth, ultimately the two settled on a contest, whichever group spotted Tokapcup-kamuy rising in the morning first would rule over the land. All the gods sat together eagerly awaiting the sun, however, Cironnup-kamuy of the good Kamuy faced away from them all. Eventually Cironnup-kamuy shouted ��I see the sun!” Causing all the kamuy, evil and not, to look over to where he was, distracting them from the true rising sun, leaving Cironnup to be the first one to spot the sun, cementing the virtuous Kamuy’s rule over the world. In Ainu moshiri, Cironnup-Kamuy was well known as a trickster, often times getting the better of people through sly means. From overturning boats to whipping up storms, Cironnup-Kamuy even pestered the great hero god Okikurumi, though he also served as a companion as well. Cironnup-Kamuy isn’t strictly a troublemaker, as when a disaster is fated to strike, Cironnup-Kamuy will manifest and cry out to warn those in the vicinity.

The word “Cironnup” translates literally to “those who we kill”. Though used to refer to the fox god, This term refers to more than just foxes, as it can refer to many other small carnivores that the Ainu hunted, like raccoon dogs and otters. The word “Sumari” is directly meant for foxes. As the god of foxes, Cironnup-Kamuy has three separate manifestations, the virtuous black fox: Shitumbe-Kamuy, the majestic white fox: Upas-cironnup-Kamuy, and the trickster red fox: Cironnup-Kamuy. The white and black foxes are seen as righteous and helpful, while the red fox was seen as a trickster. Despite them sharing a similar to name Cironnup-Kamuy, the demonic Iwan-sapa-eus-Cironnup is unrelated to the fox god, with the Kunne-Kamuy ultimately being slain by Okikurumi. The Ainu would regularly use fox skulls to ward off ill energy, usually pairing them with their Inau, lining the outside of the village. The fox itself was also the subject of Iyomante rituals, capturing a wild fox, rearing and caring for them, before killing them. This ritual was believed to bring favor with the Kamuy, as the dead fox travels back to Kamuy-Moshiri to deliver the villager’s presents to the fox Kamuy.

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Connolly Mio

Mio is a young woman and classmate of Mirai. Though seen as a popular student by those on the outside, in truth her popularity is nothing more than a sham, as she’s ignored for looking more Caucasian than Japanese, despite her being half Japanese.

With the breaking open of the sky, her talent for Spiritual Energy control is awakened. With her newfound power and the wielding of a Spirit Weapon, she journeys with Mirai to find herself in the new world open to her.

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Apep, the serpent of discord. Long ago, when the only constant was the primordial waters of Nu, there arose the Benben. Atop the primeval mound sat a lotus flower, and when it bloomed, out emerged Ra. However another being was birthed from Nu’s waters, the serpent of chaos, Apep. Ra and Apep were polar opposites, two rivaling forces in constant combat. While Ra was light, order and creation incarnate, Apep was the embodiment of darkness, chaos and destruction. Apep’s mighty roar shook the universe itself and his dark gaze paralyzed all to their core. Despite being slayed by Ra in the form of a cat, Apep’s being transcended the concept of death, continuously returning to threaten Ra and his creations. However Ra was able to eventually seal the dastardly Apep beyond the horizon in the underworld. Now Every night Apep awaits in the furthest abyss of Duat, and once Ra’s bark crosses the horizon into Duat, Apep strikes. But every morning, Apep is slain and Ra’s bark once again emerges from the horizon to light the day once more.

Apep was the foremost antagonistic force in Egyptian mythology. Apep was not seen as beneficial in some ways like other gods, Apep was regarded as the embodiment of evil and the opposition to the Egyptian concept of Maat, truth and order. The prayers Egyptians offered Ra every day were thought to empower the god for his nightly combat against Apep. Egyptian priests would hold an annual ritual in which they’d construct a sculpture of Apep before burning it, they believed this burned the darkness and evil across Egypt and helped protect the populace for another year. When reciting the battles between Apep and Ra, worshippers would construct a wax statue of Apep which they would degrade by fettering, stabbing with knives and spears, stomping, and spitting upon the figure all the while chanting spells that aided Ra in his fight against Apep. Depictions of Apep were always accompanied by another positive deity who would engage them in combat, as the very image of Apep could bestow him with power, so the Egyptians would depict him alongside another god who’d slay him and stop the transfer of power. In the underworld Apep was viewed as a devourer of unguided souls. Apep was commonly depicted alongside creatures of the ocean and desert, in these depictions Ra would often hunt these creatures alongside slaying Apep, possibly meaning that Apep commanded these creatures. The Egyptian god Set was originally believed to accompany Ra’s bark as it traveled into the night, with Set fighting against Apep himself before Set’s demonization. When Apep would cross into the mortal world, their battles with Ra and or Set was believed to cause the raging thunderstorms across the earth. Apep’s role as the bringer of chaos is exemplified in the Chaoskampf archetype, seen in deities such as the Slavic Veles, the Vedic Vritra and the Irish Balor who all fight the storm god of order. Apep may have been one of the oldest deities in the archetype, possibly being one of the gods to originate the archetype alongside the Semitic Baal, Yam and Mot. Apep may have influenced or had been influenced by the Semitic Mot, both being the direct opponents of order and the bringers of chaos. Apep may have also influenced the creation of Tiamat alongside the Semitic Yam as well, with Apep and Tiamat both being serpents of Chaos who war against the gods. Later, Apep’s role as the Egyptian bringer of Chaos was replaced by Apep’s now demonized opponent Set. The Egyptians referred to Apep as “the Enemy of Ra”, his other epithets included “Lord of Chaos”, “the Serpent from the Nile”, and “the Dragon”. The greek name for Apep was Apophis.