#horus primordia

[nastyadreamstar]

[ventxekart]

You did a really good job capturing the art style of the game!

Finished my little rushed painting of Horatio.. I loved the setting of the game! And horatio is a great character (love his interactions with crispin)

here’s the proccess in gif format

[loudsighingarchive]

obscure fanart for a game that was mildly popular three years ago? don’t mind if i do 

[astranemus]

The theory that the White and Triple Crowns were designed to represent Psilocybe cubensis primordia can be supported by noting that this mushroom is commonly cultivated today in essentially the same way an ancient Egyptian story, known as Cheops and the Magicians, allegorically describes how crowns were bestowed on the newborn rulers of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty in a document known as The Westcar Papyrus. That is, Psilocybes are commonly cultivated today by placing grain in containers, inoculating the grain with spores, and keeping the grain moist for approximately 14 days while the spores incubate. Simi­larly, in Cheops and the Magicians, crowns are bestowed on Egypt’s rulers by deities who had hidden them in barley that they exposed to a storm and later incubated in a storeroom for 14 days (Lichtheim, 1975).

The manuscript fails without explaining what happened to the hidden crowns, which Lichtheim (1975) suggested were “mag­ical tokens of kingship,” rather than crowns, in an obviously strained effort to explain the peculiarity of crowns being hidden in barley. But considering: (1) the striking resemblance the typ­ical, and particularly the atypical, White Crowns in Fig. 1 bear to Psilocybe cubensis primordia; (2) the anciently widespread practice of wearing psychotropic mushrooms and other plants as crowns; (3) the rupestrian and iconographic evidence that the ancient Egyptians had Psilocybes; and (4) the well-known practice of cultivating Psilocybes on grain, it can be inferred with a fair degree of assurance that Cheops and the Magicians was designed to allegorically explain that Egypt’s crowns were originally Psilocybes that grew from barley.

It is apparently for this reason that the hieroglyph for the White Crown (Fig. 9) comprises what can now be identified as a Psilocybe primordium, ostensibly as the White Crown, over the Egyptian hieroglyph for a basket, evidently designed to represent the barley from which the crowns emerged in Cheops and the Magicians. Hence, in Fig. 10, the Egyptian solar deity Horus holds the White Crown up to his face in a bowl or basket to signify that the crown is edible (Fig. 10).

Stephen Berlant, The entheomycological origin of Egyptian crowns and the esoteric underpinnings of Egyptian religion

[lawfulgoodedgelord]

That moment when you can’t make a decision to finish the game because you’ve got the same moral framework as the protagonist.

[bonesofbirdwings]

Mark Yohalem, writer of Primordia here. Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed reading "on the heights of the earth." I shared a few truncated thoughts on Twitter (Tumblr won't let me link, but @wwsgames is the feed) -- not exactly the best medium for commentary -- but I just wanted to shoot you a message to know how touched I was to have someone spin such a story off from the game. You have a real gift for words, and I hope you keep sharing it.

So, full disclosure, I got this message and then proceeded to scream for about two hours - I am unbelievably thrilled that you read my fanfic and that you actually like it!!! I just made a fandom twitter so I can respond to you on there as well, but wow, thank you so much for your kind comments! I definitely plan on writing more in this fandom!

(I didn’t even manage to touch on my feelings about Progress and Humanism and Metromind and the past five incarnations of Horatio so yeah more fanfics on the horizon)

Edit: Five incarnations including HORUS

[nastyadreamstar]

Speedpaint - Primordia (AU: Human Primordia) - Horus and Crispin | You W...

So... It's been a long time since I've painted in my own style or done speedpaint.

[lawfulgoodedgelord]

Clarity, do you, somehow with the font of logic and justice you call a mind, have a crush on Horatio?

[lawfulgoodedgelord]

Oh dear, Horatio is having an existential crisis.