#glyphs!

[lamegtu-larsa]

The sun shone.

Obviously a visual realization this ornate would usually be used for something less prosaic lol

[donutfloats]

Don’t worry they’re dating at this point

[stargirl-lina]

some kaladin sketches i made while reading the way of kings

[starshucker]

did somebody order CONVOCATION GLYPHS 🗣️💯

[taffybuns]

favssss

[electric-guitarz]

I was wondering, could these things be translated? And it can! By using the glyphs I found on Pinterest, I could translate it!

Translation for the first image is : " IN TIME OF NEED, HELP SHALL RISE TO YOUR CALL " You can translate these things by yourself too! Have fun!

[astrolavas]

glyphs

[rudjedet]

I know you probably get this everyday, but would you be so nice as to show the proper hieroglyphs for Osiris.

It was my dogs name and I lost him unexpectedly yesterday. He was my best friend and I’m devastated. I’d like to engrave his proper name in his urn.

Oh love I'm so sorry, losing a companion animal is awful, and when it happens unexpectedly it can be so much worse.

Here's Osiris' proper name in hieros, most commonly rendered as Wesir:

However, since it was your dog's name, I've taken the liberty of rendering it with a dog hiero at the end, and adding mAa-xrw, meaning "true of voice" or "justified", which was a common epithet for the deceased.

Because I didn't know what shape of urn you were thinking of, I also rendered it vertically (and more vertically) for you:

or

Sending you many good thoughts. <3

[sepublic]

Thinking of how the Titan showed Luz the first glyph, Light, because she was kind to his son and listened to him, made him feel like his interests mattered when so many others overlooked the little guy and didn’t care about people like him. He didn’t force Luz to painstakingly find it on her own, as Philip did; The Titan freely gave this to her.

Then the second glyph, Ice, comes when Luz takes the moment to listen to the Titan; To say that she’ll learn on his terms, she’ll respect his body and work with him. Luz paid attention to the unheard son, and now the parent, speaking with and not for him as Philip did.

She gets the Plant glyph afterwards by continuing to follow that principle and give his son fun and company...

And the final glyph, Fire? Wing it like Witches is a major epiphany for Luz’s development, where it really hits her that she can’t drag her friends around in her attempts to play out certain beloved tropes and story beats she grew up on; In particular, this episode was about her desire to be the underdog hero, dragging Willow into relatively high-stakes consequences for a Grudgby match she did not ask for.

Sound familiar? I wonder if the Titan was low key afraid of Luz following in Philip’s steps, recognized that similar hero complex... Even if Luz was nowhere near as evil as Belos, well. Philip started off from somewhere, he didn’t begin as a genocidal dictator with countless sins to his name, he built his way up. Maybe the Titan is just being paranoid, Luz is so young after all! But in the end, he hid one final glyph from Philip because of his need for control, and it was admittedly Luz who jeopardized this precaution by giving Philip the Light spell.

Yet in Wing it like Witches, Luz really matures when she steps up and takes responsibility for her recklessness, for subsuming Willow’s problem and low key making it about herself, and what she decides for the group. Luz takes the full consequences of the stakes she set up so neither Willow nor Gus have to, and it’s this mature gesture of self-awareness that prompts them to reciprocate and forgive Luz.

So I wonder if THAT moment was what solidified to the Titan that yes, I really can trust this child. This human, the first after centuries of another who has been desecrating my corpse, bastardizing my name; She truly didn’t know any better, and meant well, teaching Philip the Titan’s last glyph. The first few glyphs were like little gifts, but giving Luz the last one meant she had full access to all of the Titan’s magic, so long as she experimented with glyph combos. And the Titan felt safe to entrust her with something he barred from Philip, because why?

Because Luz got over that fatal flaw of Philip’s; The desire to be the hero at any cost. That proved she wouldn’t follow in his footsteps, she diverged at a crucial point, and it meant she’d never become another Belos. They both worked and studied for the glyphs, but what mattered was the compassion that Luz had, and it was her kindness that began her discovery of glyphs. The Titan could trust his final glyph to her, Fire... But as he’d find out, it wasn’t even his final gift to Luz, either.

There really is this recurring arc of hesitancy from the Titan; Someone who was used, betrayed, and taken advantage of. And knew how easy it was for the same to happen to his son. So to see the little ways in which he opens up, recognizes Luz’s kindness and maturity and responds to each step in her growth... It’s like someone learning to trust again, realizing they’ve really found a friend after all. It’s no wonder Luz is treated like an old friend by the Titan, because she is one, and it makes his final gift and farewell to her all the more impactful.

On a lighter note! I’m just imagining the Titan figuring out how to show Luz the Fire glyph, after deciding he’ll do just that. I keep thinking of him watching Luz in the Grudgby game, cheering her on and giving Luz support by illuminating his last glyph in Boscha’s fire; “Here kid, take this!” It’s such a relatively casual and silly moment too, because the Titan isn’t obsessed with the theatrics and drama of godhood.

[soggy-pumpkin]

A cute snuggle pile of the Palismen. I love flapjack and string bean so much.

[lamegtu-larsa]

Astrological temple text! Some individual phrases up top, then assembled into a whole text block at the bottom! (With script form underneath)

J'atok tam, nanungaluk: ankuru shak, s'ogal eb jedru, dacci untaradu.

"The great mountain, it is climbed: the fiery Ram, a pivot of Heaven, sulphur of Fire"

[inamindfarfaraway]

Wow, King’s first glyph is so cool. I wonder how he came up with that design. It kind of looks like a very simplistic Titan, or even…

Oh. It’s the light glyph. Of course.

And the circle is right in the middle of the figure’s ‘chest’, because Luz’s own true inner light is her metaphorical heart!

Are all his glyphs going to be like this? Maybe the fire glyph could reference Eda, because of red and gold and her general personality and role as a firebrand. Her hair already has a fiery shape and it used to be orange. Would Lilith be ice, then? For the plant glyph… Willow, because she’s the most Plant person he knows? Or a vine or flower stem symbol that could be Hooty with a few leaves on it, to keep it in the Owl House?

[sheerakk]

Luzik

[mini-minish]

wlw necromancers keep holding me hostage

lineart version under read more if you'd like to color this! (don't erase credit; tag me so i can reblog it from you!)

[keepingitneutral]

"Modernity Through Tradition"

Ancient Egyptian Interiors by Hassan Ragab

[saturninemartial]