#endiku

[kokushibe]

[gabbyp09]

[witchydespoina]

I just know the girls of Uruk were Fujoing the Fuck Out when the Epic of Gilgamesh was being published on those tablets in real time

[wtfjd95]

The Prince of Persia themed deluxe edition eagle and mount skins in Assassin's Creed Mirage aren't too bad to look at. It's just a shame they called them Sand Eagle & Sand Horse.

[xhonoredone]

continuación ask box ☆ @magnificentpandadecuaderno

¿Perdido él? De los labios de Howl brotó una vibrante risa, a la vez que negaba con la cabeza; su cabello rubio y sedoso ondeando con el viento, teniendo un aspecto perfecto bajo la luz de los rayos del sol que empezaban a ocultarse.

El páramo era uno de sus sitios menos favoritos para visitar. Pero había encontrado ahí un escape perfecto, dadas las condiciones del terreno para llegar hasta ahí. Por ello, en realidad, que en un principio pensara que su interlocutor estaba perdido.

Howl retrajo su mano, que modelaba anillos de rubís y esmeraldas, guardándola bajo su larga y preciosa capa.

― Justo estaba preguntándome lo mismo. Pero resulta que no. Conozco el páramo como la palma de mi mano y puedo decir con certeza que no cualquier persona ronda por aquí. ― Historias de brujas rondaban por esas tierras. Brujas que te sacaban el corazón y te robaban la belleza, la edad y cualquier otro atributo.

― Eres valiente estando aquí solo.― Observó. ― ¿Qué te trajo por aquí? Y más importante, ¿quién eres?―

A lo lejos una corneta sonó y el sonido de engranajes y pisadas pesadas hizo eco. El castillo se movía a la lejanía.

[mothervvoid]

im not gonna hide the fact that sophie and abel are meant to parallel gilgamesh and enkidu in this fic if i ever actually finish writing it

[cleopheanne]

Bharani : the birth of Venus.

Part 1

Let's talk about ancient godesses of love and Bharani nakshatra.

I will base my research on the legend of the dead and resurrected god present in many religious myths coming from the middle east (ps : i'm sorry in advance for the grammar, syntax or spelling mistakes that you may find in this post, english is not my first language)

Bharani, situated in the heart of the rashi of aries is governed by Shukr: Venus but also by Yami and Yama in vedic mythology who are twins and gods respectfully of life and death.

Yama, the main deity of Bharani is said to be one of "8 celestial gatekeepers, who guards eight directional doorways or exits through which souls travel from an earthly plane to other planes of existence" making him the lord of Dharma since at one's death, he decides basing on his actions in what plane should one reincarnate.

Since Yama is responsible for directing the flow of life on Earth the association between bharani and the yoni becomes evident: the female reproducting system serves as a portal for souls to take on a physical form. So bharani as Claire Nakti perfectly described it relates to the feminine ability to receive, hold, nurture and ultimately transform through the womb.

Because Bharani aligns itself with all the feminine qualities by excellence it makes sense as to why Venus is it's ruler.

Venus is the roman name for the goddess Aphrodite: in greek mythology. She is said to be the goddess of love and beauty at large but also the goddess of war and sexuality. First because the ancient greeks saw the duality that links love to war and how they seem to come together through sex.

Also, Aphrodite is said to be born from the sperm of Ouranos when his testicules got cut by his son Saturn as he was always feconding Gaia, the Earth and causing her distress: he was acting cruel regarding their children. The sperm of Ouranus got mixed up with the foam of the Ocean creating Aphrodite which means "risen from the foam". So it was interesting to see that as Shukr also means sperm in sanskrit and it shows the origin of Venus as a fertility goddess too.

This conception of Aphrodite directly links her to ancient goddesses of love such as Ishtar or Inana in Mesopotamian/summerian mythology or Isis in egyptian mythology. Most of the time, these goddesses are the female counterpart of a god that was once mortal, got cursed, died and then came back to life for them to form an immortal couple.

In the case of Ishtar, her consort is Dumuzi or Tammuz and Osiris is the consort of Isis.

In Mesopotamian mythology :

Ishtar or Inana in sumerian is the goddess of love and sexuality, beauty, fertility as well as war because of her status as a " bloody goddess" mostly refering to her character in plenty of myths.

For example: in one story, she became infatuated with the king Gilgamesh, but the latter knowing her fierce reputation, refused her advances. As a result she got furious and unleashed the celestial Bull on Earth which resulted in 7 years of plagues. This celestial bull was later defeated by Gilgamesh and Endiku, and its corpse was throwed in front of Inana. Blinded by rage, she decided that as a punition Enkidu must die and sad at the death of his bestfriend Gilgamesh began his journey to find a cure to Death.

Bharani is a fierce or Ugra nakshatra meaning that its nature is agressive, bold and assertive in pursuing their goals. They are ruthless in the process of accompling what they desire the most and are inclined to extreme mood swings that can result in them to be "blinded" by their extreme emotions perfectly expressing the passionate character of Venus and her other equivalents in differents pantheons of antiquity.

Inana/ Ishtar's story with Dumuzi/Tammur begins as she was convinced to chose him by her brother Utu. Then she got married with the shepphard Dumuzi instead of whom she prefered the farmer: Enkinmdou. During the courtship, Inana prefered the fine textile of the farmer and his beer rather than the thick wool and milk of Dumuzi. The preference for the shepphard illustrates that at the time the Mesopotamian civilisation was known for their proliferent agriculture with the egyptians in the region, so this myth encapsulate the opposition between nomads and sendatary people at this specifific time period.

By the way, another symbol of Bharani is the cave and traditionnaly, the cave was used as a storage room for food. Also Bharani's purpose is Artha so these individuals are motivated to accumalate resources and provide safety and security, so Bharani can be linked to the exploitation of natural ressources like the soil illustrating the preference of Ishtar for the farmer. This is reinforced also by its Earth element.

So coming back to the myth, in a mesopotamian text called Inana's Descent to the Underworld, the goddess goes to Kur (hell) with the intent of conquering it, and her sister Ereshkigal who rules the Underworld, kills her. She learns that she can escape if she finds a sacrifice to replace her, in her search, she encounters servants who were mourning her death however she finds Dumuzi relaxing on a throne being entertained by enslaved girls. Enraged by his disloyalty she selects him as a sacrifice and he is dragged to the Underworld by demons.

He is eventually resurrected by Inana and they become an "immortal couple" as he may only come back to life for half of the year, being replaced by his son (?) who is also his reincarnation for the other half of the same years, so describing the cycle of regeneration of life.

Other mythologycal stories of goddesses in the near east describe a similar patterns:

The goddess Asherah is described as being the mother and the lover of her son Adonis.

The goddess Cybele in the phrygian pantheon takes the form of an old woman as she described as the mother of everything and of all. And at the same time she is the consort of Attis who his her own son (wtf ?)

Also, Yama and Yami are implicated in a incestuous entanglement where his sister Yama wanted to lay with him however he refused establishing himself as a god with an infaillible moral campus.

All of these representations illustrate the relation between the masculine and the feminine, life and regenration which are all topics related to Bharani nakshatra. Women by their capacity to give life are seen as the source of life and therefore are eternal as they are able to regenarate themselves through daughters which are identical to them whereas man who is unable to reproduce by himself, is therefore mortal feels the need to associate with her to resurrect through a son who is identical to him. Bharani exiting as the embodiment of the link between "the father and the offspring" which is the feminine vessel.

So this is certainly part 1, I think that these ancient myths are where Claire Nakti found her inspiration for her series on Bharani.

[meirimerens]

endiku (from the Epic of Gilgamesh) lies ill, bedridden and dying for... twelve days... you say...? [a scratching noise is felt at the back of the mind]

[werehoggin]

Housamo character wish list

Olympus

Athena (Goddess of wisdom)

Aphrodite (Goddess of love)

Artemis

Nemesis

Bia (the goddess of force and raw energy)

Gehenna:

Paimon (Ars Goeta)

Lilith

Mulciber (Blacksmith of Hell also called Vulcan)

Old ones:

Idh-yaa

Cthylla or Quum-yaa

Ghatanothoa

Nug and Yeb (The twins)

Takamagahara

Ninigi (Amaterasu’s grandson)

Takuhadachiji-hime (Goddess of Textiles)

Tir na Nog

Sadhbh

Embarr (White horse)

Niamh (Goddes of the Sea, Death and Fate)

Oberon

Titania

Puck

Babilim

Ishtar

Gilgamesh

Ereshkigal

Endiku

Aaru

Hathor

Atum (primordial god of darkness and the abyss of the sea)

Amun

Bastet

El Dorado

Huitaca (the rebel goddess of liberation)

Sué (Sun god)

Chía (moon goddess)

Nencatacoa (god of art and dance)

Chiminigagua (god of creating)

Eden

Adam (First Man)

Eve (First Woman

Metatron (The strongest Archangel)

Raguel (Angel of Justice)

Zadkeil (Angel of Mercy)

Jovial (the joyful

Raphael (Healing Angel)

Ariel (Angel of nature)

[pheonix199]

So I just finished Children of Memory. Oh my god.

Oh my god.

So good.

The reveals at the end

God, none of it was real. Nothing on Imir, in landfall, none of it was real.

There was no Landfall.

The shuttle crashed.

Nobody got off the Endiku alive.

All of that was Miranda having a breakdown while hooked into an alien simulator.

And yet ... that doesn't matter. A good enough simulation of a person is a person. Dr Kern the upload, Miranda the Interlocutor, and Liff the simulated.

They're real.

The computer's could-have-been Landfall ... it was real enough to create people Miranda and the others could bring into the physical world.

God it fucked me up and made me think.

[itsskoll]

Made a humanized/gijinka version of my achillo mob boss, Endiku! Gotta draw his deiony gang some time too

[savagepassion]

This really makes me think of the Mesopotamian Bull of Heaven that Gilgamesh and Endiku killed.

Finished designing my bull angel concept! for my friend's TTRPG

[reconstructionbaby]

we were gilgamesh and endiku. hamlet and laertes. jerry and george

[heartfeltxicons]

[[ personal projects / non-com requests ]]

note: that most of these are personal projects and won't be posted here ( unless I feel like sharing. ) If I get any commission requests, those will be their own posts.

PERSONAL ICONS

working on:

Vasto Lorde Ichigo - Bleach *colored (manga) Guts - Berserk (manga) Kiyomaro Takamine, Gash Bell, Sheri Berumondo, Burago - Gash Bell (manga) Pegasus Seiya - Saint Seiya (manga)

paused:

Luffy - One Piece (manga) Quon & co - Towa no Quon (anime) Ritsuka Aoyagi, Soubi Agatsuma, Sakagami Kouya, Nanako Yamato - Loveless (manga)

Have planned:

Abel Nightroad, Tres Iqus, Esther Blanchett - Trinity Blood (manga) King of Salt - Owari no Seraph (manga) Merlin The Magician - Merlin (movie) Usopp - One Piece (manga) King Munto - Munto (anime) Shimazu Toyohisa - Drifters (manga) John Preston - Equilibrium (movie) William Henry Murdoch - Murdoch Mysteries (tv series) Saito Hajime, Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin (manga) Barnaby & Kotetsu - Tiger & Bunny (manga) Leorio - Hunter x Hunter (manga)

NON-COMMISSION REQUESTS

Endiku & Sajyou Ayaka - Fate (manga)

Ichigo Kurosaki - Bleach (manga) **for giveaway winner**

Nanao Ise - Bleach (manga) **for giveaway winner**

[pulseofthestars]

🍷- From Endiku for Master!Kam!

"Honestly it was a little.. surreal at first to summon Enkidu after everything that involved Kingu. Still that faded pretty quickly after I got to know Enkidu, their empathy and their close connection to nature especially. Their strength of course also can't be undersold, after all they are the sole being that Gilgamesh acknowledges as a friend and equal. They're a reliable comrade and I can only hope that we develop a strong bond as Master and Servant."

".... That being said I do wish they'd stop throwing things at Ishtar. Chaldea's walls can only handle so many impacts and fights with Servants of that level of power."

@pseudomonacarriea