#shahmaran

[majestativa]

NILGÜN AKYOL Shahmaran

[brettesims]

“These vast sky’s, the mountains, and the seas have witnessed great love and great betrayal. Either mankind will consume the world with rage, destroying anything in their path rampaging - in order to feed their insatiable hunger or they will finally learn how to love and surrender. To flow as one with the world.” ~ Shahmaran (a Turkish show, Netflix)

[iconsturkish]

[shaahmaran]

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

SHAHMARAN

Seriously, what did I just see?

It was so slow, and until the 5 last minutes we didn't know what was the main point of the all story.

Why?

Even at the end nothing made sense.

[motochiri]

sevdaliza // shahmaran

[soultobeloved]

ŞAHMERAN34 by Tanju Babacan

According to the legend in several cultures of the Middle East, especially in the Turkish area, Shahmaran is a mythical female creature, half woman and half snake, who lived in a beautiful garden underground. Her name comes from the Persian words "Shah" (which means "king") and Maran (which means "snakes").

[fonemoretime]

Snake Deity Shahmaran, betrayed 3000 years ago, studious doctor, cave dweller. lines by Darya, colors by me

[aki-o-mitovski-writer]

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[marronje]

If God had meant us to fly, he would have given us wings

Ochako says it's bullshit

Ochako says she'll become your wings

@dailytogachako marronje the drawing demon is at your service again

Well, I just couldn't resist, Himiko and snakes in one sentence summon me eventually

[majestativa]

I'd die a million deaths, and you'd resurrect me I'd fall a billion times, but you wouldn't let me.

[dailytogachako]

thinking about harpia ochako and shahmaran himiko

[adamanteine]

thinking castlevania verse thoughts........ based on the story of shahmaran, shams who is a powerful enchantress who safeguarded the secrets of alchemy. her family has always been part of the persian court and nobility but she was entrusted with the fire of ahura, an ancient power that could either restore life or bring chaos. many rulers sought this fire, but one day a padishah is alerted of shahmeran's presence and wished to consume of its flesh so to protect it and herself, shams erased her city from history, allowing the world to believe she had perished alongside its ruins. her own lair is thousand miles above one of the most famous rose garden palace in tehran. over centuries, rumors start spreading, some claiming she was a demon, others a divine being but no one actually knew the truth. in secret she helps different people, especially using ziggurats and temples as sacred places where whoever needs her may actually find her.

she would also use one of those ziggurats for a vampire hunting sect called the saoshyant guardians named after the avestan language term that literally means "one who brings benefit" :D there would be a haunted caravanserai in an abandoned desert outpost where travelers mysteriously disappear that she personally enchanted to keep ppl with wrong intentions out and the ppl inside said sacred places safe. supernatural beings don't truly know her real name so everyone calls her shahmaran and she rarely appears in her true form, instead using mirages and shadows to conceal her movements. she created a secret city called maran and in this city there a certain points of interest, but the main three are: a glowing underground lake where spirits are able to be reached, a grand hall where the fire of ahura still burns, sealed behind inscriptions and a labyrinthine archive containing scrolls and the records of ancient civilizations

[i-mmaculatus]

　　　shred my grief with vice　　.・。.・♫ུ᳝᳜᳝

[rooksamoris]

Absolutely need to tell someone about this idk why it took me so long to figure it out but thanks to my job and having access to an Arabic textbook (In southeast asia where non-muslims dont use Arabic) i am bamboozled and flabberghasted to find out Jamil is the transliteration of beautiful in Arabic

i honestly adore his name because of it!! jamil <33 i can imagine him getting flustered when being called jamil, and it not being his name

"oh, ya jamil (oh, beautiful)~" he pulls his hood down over his face and averts his gaze, "you aren't as sly as you think," he mutters. his face and ears felt so warm all of a sudden.

sometimes i also wish they gave him an arabic or farsi last name too?? hanash means snake in arabic, and i literally know people with that last name.

on that topic, i do wanna mention that snakes being evil are a western concept. islamically, they have been used in various forms of art (such as in hospitals), but they are also depicted as stinging away evil spirits. the islamic tale of adam and hauwa(eve) does not have a snake that tempts them to eat from the tree, so snakes were never evil. islam also advises against killing animals, unless it is in an act of self-defense, such as during ancient times when they were used in assassination.

i could not find the article i read it from, but snakes are also used to symbolize motherhood and the divinity of mothers. the act of shedding skin is like bringing in a new life and all that jazz.

there's also the middle eastern story of shahmaran (i believe her name is 'queen of snakes' in farsi. shah = king, but her name is always translated to 'queen of snakes), a half-snake half-woman. in "one thousand and one nights" or 'alf layla wa layla', shahmaran is not portrayed as bad nor good. in some of the stories, she was respected and people wanted to earn her respect, or she was like an oracle who warned people of danger.

to this day, in kurdish folklore, shahmaran symbolizes good luck, and depictions of her can be found in some homes. even in the stories where she dies, she is more sympathetic.

anyways, i rambled a lot. here's some art of shahmaran by turkish artists, sibel dogan. dogan does a lot of traditional turkish and middle eastern artwork on saatchi art btw