#{ bakunawa }

[wolfythewitch]

Art for class!

[lynnoepogi]

90% legs

[tuzi0usagi0bunbon0bunny]

did a little redesign to the Kaiju's Gijinka!!

(just hoping tumblr wont ruin the quality)

also yes this is height accurate

Bonus!!

[inkcurlsandknives]

In honor of tonight's lunar eclipse, are you ready to frighten away the Bakunawa so it doesn't swallow the moon forever?

The bakunawa/laho a Filipino sea dragon has always been a huge influence on my writing and other creative endeavors 🌕🐉🇵🇭 I'm excited!

[tiredghostness]

old people yuri

[draconesmundi]

Happy Dracones Monday! Lunar Eclipse!

In Phillippino mythology, there were once seven moons in the sky. A great serpent from the sea, Bakunawa, ate six of them, but luckily the people of the Phillippines bashed pots and pans to disturb the dragon before she could eat the final moon. Every now and again, she will try to eat the final moon - as revenge for a lover being killed, as revenge for her sister a giant sea turtle being killed, or because she's angry at the gods or simply because she is an eater of moons.

This Dracones Monday coincides with a Lunar Eclipse on the 25th of March, when Bakunawa will try to eat the moon again, so have the pots and pans ready!!!

In my project, Dracones Mundi, the Pacific Sea Serpent eats dragons that fly over the sea. The dramatic leaps from the water used to catch airborn prey are awe-inspiring and, for all intents and purposes, look like a gigantic sea serpent flinging it's way upwards to eat the sky itself - for this reason the scientific name for the Pacific Sea Serpent is Mareserpens lunaphagous, the moon-eating sea serpent, in honour of Bakunawa.

[bakunawaart]

Divine

Shin Godzilla | シン・ゴジラ

[memoertz24]

The baby noodle

[miawerz]

Year of the Dragon 🌕🐉 Happy Lunar New Year!!!

[sangahnomiya]

fellow pipinos and neuvifuri/focallette enjoyers,, do u see the vision

I took this screenshot from the Wikipedia page, so initially I couldn't find any source for where this version of the legend came from. but after some digging, it seems that this particular version came from iloilo!! (source here.)

since I've got a fairytale AU in the works already, what if I,,, hm,,,,,,,,

[7clubs]

the sea serpent fell for the moon

and the moon loved her in return

[maya-chirps]

i was looking up Filipino mythological monsters and found this on google and i'm crying he's trying so hard to eat the moon but he looks like a worm 😭😭😭

[lynnoepogi]

Ultrakill inspired Bakunawa oc (WIP)

[teampura]

Some smaugust art pieces I've done in the past couple of days

[inkcurlsandknives]

Please enjoy the tiny bakunawa / Laho wood magnet I made at my arboretum's arbor day event 🐉🐉🐉

Also saw a lot of nice wood ears and we are taking home a little pomegranate seedlings to plant

[wodeworm]

Bakunawa the moon Eater

𝕬𝖓𝕶𝖆𝖑𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖊𝖗 30

Bakunawa are said to be Massive oceanic dragons that reside near the Philipines, and were the blame of many meteorological phenomena in the area. so significant was its movements that the people used it to map and carve out a geomantic calendar, and were the center of many rituals preformed by babaylan priestess's. even purported and readily believed to have entire islands form their spines moving ecosystems and communities of people around the sea.

many differing myths and legends revolved around the tremendous creature, some say the the supreme deity created many moons in the sky, these celestial body's enraptured the great serpent with its tremendous strength it would erupt from the sea devouring them whole, in a desperate bid to save the night sky the ancient Filipinos would go out their homes and through any means, create a great cacophony of sound to ward of this vast creature. inversely they would play soothing sounds to try and lull it into a hypnotic state in which some would trying to find some kind of to this existential threat to their people, with varying success.