#tenegre

[kathanglangit]

Indeed it is!

I feel like I should add a little context for those unfamiliar.

The Bakunawa (or Bakonawa or however the spelling varies) is a giant serpent-dragon shared across several cultures in the Philippines, particularly in the Visayas area and those with whom they share close cultural ties.

It is one of several moon-eaters (alongside other giants such as the blade-feathered Minokawa of the Bagobo peoples stories), whose attempts to eat the moon have been pointed out in folklore and mythology as the cause of eclipses.

I can't say too much with confidence; I am by no means an expert on these stories, nor do I belong to the cultures that sing them. Filipino culture is anything but a monolith- it is in fact an enormous mosaic of often intersecting and overlapping cultureS (plural) that only appear to be all the same color if you're not looking closely enough. As it happens, the moon-eaters I mention here belong to cultures far away from where I can claim my own ancestry; we have stories of our own where I come from.

What I can say is that the Bakunawa tends to make an appearance on figural hilts on Philippine blades. I placed an example of a tenegre hilt in the original post, and added here some more examples of Bakunawa hilts on kampilan swords.

It may be that the figural hilts were originally meant to depict something else, or were known by other names, but blade collectors, smiths, and enthusiasts frequently refer to them as Bakunawa hilts in the present day.

Moonhammer

No pretentious loretext this time. I designed this meteor-hammer belt thing a while back based on the Bakunawa, the moon-eater serpent. The look of the maw is based in part on Visayan tenegre hilts, and the moon and star are based on my uh- Idk what to call it, a brand logo I guess?

I was going to get it made for myself, then I remembered I'm not actually trained to use a meteor hammer, so-

[fatherentropy]

HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON?

My private twitter has been a series of me screaming at various programs for five days but I fuckin' did it. Based him vaguely off of ESO's Pyandonean style and more heavily off of a tenegre.

Now to do it again

[peashooter85]

Tenegre with Naga/Panay hilt, The Philippines, first half of the 20th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

[nuriacarreras]

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[saikokirakira]

Request for our moon bois

Their reaction to you always taking care of your apperance like long af nails, snatched makeup and killer outfits? 🤤🤤🤤

a/n: ooooh, first ask on the blog. i really appreciate it. 🥺🥺 ngl i'm on the ropes on this one. those reading, tell me you like it or i'll cry. 🥲🥲

i didn’t know if you meant Bakunawa!reader or just a general one, so i did the former. you can only notice the au references if you squint anyways, but feel free to shoot me another request. 😊😊

warnings: just fluff; mild sexual references (if you squint); steven being a cinnamon bun; marc being sassy and emotionally constipated; jake being a simp king

Steven Grant (would focus on the dress)

You were often invited to art galas and gallery unveilings due to your line of work.

That means you had to keep up with appearances, especially during black tie events.

Sometimes, if schedules between Marc and Jake allowed him, he would always be your plus one.

Yet you also had that small bit of joy dressing up outside of work just for its own sake.

Knowing his reaction to Layla’s armor during the Cairo incident, he would forget everything else and decide to fawn over you.

“Darling, you look absolutely beautiful. Your nails – they can poke an eye out – but they are a gorgeous accent to that clutch bag.”

Among the others, Steven had a better eye on style, and if he wasn’t so fidgety and often self-deprecating, he would fit in with the socialites without question.

“Isn’t it a little too much?”

You gave him a little twirl and posed for him, sticking out your leg to show off the high slit of your evening dress.

Steven shook his head, a little too aggressively that sent his curls flying.

“No! It’s perfect. A little too perfect,” he muttered that last part.

Oh? You smiled slyly and slowly made your way to him.

Steven’s cheeks warmed at your movements, so graceful that he thought you were gliding across the wooden floor of his flat in those heels and flowy dress.

 Steven couldn’t gasp out the allurement you had on him when you pressed your palm to his cheek.

The tips of your long nails tickled the start of his hairline, and he inwardly groaned at the thought of you running your fingers through his curls and scratching at his scalp.

You were about to lean in when Steven painfully pulled away.

“Come on, darling. We’re gonna be late. Let me grab my jacket, and I’ll be good to go.”

A serpentine hiss escaped from your deep red lips, something Steven thankfully missed.

“I’ve been thinking of skipping. Let’s just have a night in.”

Steven looked at you with that wide-eyed lost puppy look.

“Don’t be silly, darling. I can’t wait for them to mistake you as the painting with how gorgeous you look.”

It was only until the elevator ride down did Marc and Jake yelled at him from the reflections over how he completely missed your invitation to stay in.

Marc Spector (would focus on the nails)

Would be very snarky about them at the beginning.

“How can you even hold a paintbrush with those? Much less your tenegre swords?”

In between missions, you may have to replace your nails, quite often, but with you kept them as long as you could…

… and sometimes even enough to inflict serious damage.

Bakunawa is a very proud deity, sometimes rivaling Khonshu if you would ignore the self-righteousness.

His prideful serpent-like behavior rubbed off on you by killer outfits and makeup that often resemble the scales that grew a place in your heart over the past months.

Maybe the outfits and makeup you saved on special occasions, but the nails were a constant.

Marc would never admit it, but he loves it when your nails change very often.

It reminds him how beautiful you are but can also be lethally dangerous.

The first time he found out about your frequent trips was when he went on a frenzy looking all over for you in London.

You mentioned you would be at the art studio that day, but the old man there said it was your day off.

Why would you lie?

Did Harrow’s crazy disciples find you again? What if it was someone from your village who managed to track you down?

But no.

You were chatting and giggling with a nail aesthetician who you were talking with in your native tongue at a high-end salon in downtown London.

You specifically turned to her because she was the Crawley to your Steven, and not many people in London would notice your incessant babbling over your three boyfriends… and your girlfriend who is always away on business trips.

Marc wanted to be mad, but he could settle being annoyed for now.

He knew why you lied. It was now his chance to be honest about it.

About how you actually looked hot with those nails.

How he was happy for you that you had some semblance of self-care after you go on missions with him and Khonshu.

Maybe he’ll tell you those words later.

Or maybe not.

“Was that your boyfriend just now?”

You smiled and continued to glance at him walking away and back down the street from the mirror.

“Yep. He’s just being a worry-tart. Always.”

“What design are we going for this week?”

“Something white and gold. Maybe a lunar design.”

Jake Lockley (would notice your makeup)

Jake is obsessed with your body, especially your face.

He could stare at your eyes for forever if he could.

One of his favorite moments are mornings after you stay the night.

He would just watch you from across the bed doing your makeup while holding a handheld mirror.

Jake offered once to hold the mirror for you.

You ended up being late for a meeting with your client because he became a little too distracting with all his eye-fucking staring.

He knows you love glitter and how you never skip on putting shimmers.

And he knows you know that he absolutely loves when you go out with the body glitters and chunky glitters.

Jake loves when your scales from Bakunawa’s iridescent armor emerge and shimmer into an array of colours under the lights.

Something about the power and confidence it holds.

It makes him want to worship you more than he already does.

So when you try to replicate that look during fancy galas, it would take all of his self-control to keep his hands on the wheel when he drives you both to the venue.

However, when the event is over, it’s all fair game.

You would be his own personal art show.

Because that is what you are to Jake.

Something to be revered, a feast for the eyes, art.

Often times, Jake wouldn’t even do anything but just hold you – skin-on-skin contact.

As the protector alter, Jake was often stern and always on alert.

But with you in his arms, all the tension in his body leaves by staring at something so beautiful as you.

[anyonghalimaw]

PLEASE rant about that dragon design. as someone who does dragon creature design stuff it would be appreciated from both a design standpoint AND a culturally sensitive one

OMFG OK SO

first of all to preface, were already hitting massive issues with the fact that disney is mishmashing from several different, highly varied cultures.

The film is set in a fictional fantasy land called Kumandra, inspired by Southeast Asian cultures from Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. To conduct research, the filmmakers and the production team traveled to all of the abovementioned countries, except Myanmar and Malaysia.

thailand cambodia and vietnam have more in common with each other than they do with indonesia, malaysia, and the philippines, and vice versa. the former r all attached to mainland asia while the latter r mostly maritime island nations. the mainland nations generally have much in common with north asia too. 

NOW FOR THE FUCKING DESIGN ITSELF... first of all lemme show tihs fucking tweet

its literaly just elsa. its fucking elsa dragon. obviously we were never gonna get anything thats actually accurate 2 the general creature design conventions/art style of se asia coz its “scary” n not marketable 2 families in the us LMFAO

they were actually kinda on the mark with this little in universe illustration, it actually resembles se asian creatures with those exaggerated tusks and the wide eyes. its still kinda shit coz they gotta make it recognizable with the marketed 3d character design but this one doesnt piss me off as bad

the horns were clearly inspired by either thai depictions of the naga, visayan depictions of the bakunawa, or both, but it DOESNT FUCKING COMMIT TO EITHER COZ DISNEY IS TRYING TO GET THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE APPEAL

(depiction of bakunawa on the hilt of a tenegre from panay)

(depiction of the naga on a temple roof from northern thailand)

it just doesnt fit with the fucking designs of se asia at ALL. look up the barong, the se asian depictions of the garuda, the bakunawa, the kinnara, the chinthe, the babi ngepet. they all look fucking nothing like sisu does.

and finally.. the issue of having a dragon as the central Thing: in southeast asia dragons rnt.. rlly that common AJSDHKJDHSJDHS off my head i can think of the naga from thailand and the bakunawa from here (the philippines). vietnam has a dragon that bears more similarity with the chinese dragon than the other asean nations. dragons arent rlly a fucking universal se asian thing?? in fact we share more monsters than we do dragons! they were clearly aiming 2 make something thatd be General enough to appeal 2 All of southeast asia for maximum profit, but if they rlly wanted 2 aim for all of us they shouldve gone with monsters/spirits coz we have so many shared ones LMFAO (see: manananggal and penanggalan who r definitely related, the tiyanak and pontianak who r probably related) this is a really good thread on the similarities of monsters and spirits in se asia. this place is haunted as SHIT

anyway im mad as shit and this is long enough LKASDLHSDJDHS thanks 4 givig me the opportunity 2 rant <3

[handfulsofhistory]

This tenegre style of sword comes from the Visayan Islands, and is usually attributed to Panay and quite possibly to the Suludnon people. The shape of the heavy blade makes it suitable as a serious weapon, as well as for use as a machete. Typical for a Visayan tenegre, the pommel is in the shape of demon head.

[kalajkutter]

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[diplomaticdiplodocus]

Now I’m recording my dreams?

As mentioned preiously, this tumblr has been resurrected as a step above journaling. Well, now it’s going to take a plunge. This morning, I had a cool sort of dream, and I decided I didn’t want to lose it. It was cool parahuman stuff, though reasonably incoherent. Dream below.

Tenegrity

A couple of children are descended from both humans and magical forces (somewhat anthropomorphized).

The eldest of them has magical powers that are somewhat vague – some teleportation, some charisma, some speed and strength. He’s mainly special because he represents a resurgence in these demihumans, who haven’t been seen in a few hundred years.

His parents – well it’s kind of unclear who his parents are. He’s raised by his (probable) dad, a similarly charismatic but entirely human fire chief. Possible women who might have been his mother are a cellist with long dark hair, a sensible paramedic girl, and a force of purple darkness that acts as the town’s protector, fuels old magic, and really doesn’t interact with humans too much.

Then gets a little bother. He can teleport completely at will, any time, any place, and is often popping around the house unconsciously as an infant. It’s not entirely clear where he came from, though there is a strong fraternal bond.

 The cellist and her (male) partner have a baby, who turns out to be another demihuman. They figure this out after she starts talking at like two months, but don’t really believe it until it’s clear she’s making inhumanly accurate long-range plans and deductions. For example that shemust have a sibling on the way, because the only people the superhumans can marry are each other, and clearly it must be set up that way.

And she does have a sister. Though said sister is really young at the point of our story, idk what her power is. (Nvm, not super young – just underdeveloped)

 Our plot begins with the four of them together tearing down the mountainside in semi-virtual reality. (They’re really there, but not interacting with the environment – drones and stuff do it for them; they can see the drones out of the corner of their eye, because inhumanly good senses, but sort of pretend not to. The system was fixed for them by one of their parents/the local magical police force kind of people. Who realized the substantial benefits to the town if they were less bored…also a safety upgrade)

They’re digging around in some spruce trees (alive and fallen) off the road, beside a river. They come across a golden eagle sitting on a low branch, and want to surprise/capture it. But it’s too fast for them and burrows underground (where the drones can’t get it). They accept this and keep on walking. Then they come to a carved standing stone. Kind of a tomb, but with a carved human face. It looks Inca in design, but also has elements of the local native people; this is nowhere near the Inca. Teleporty one goes inside, and 1) Sees piles and piles of gold, in bricks and 2) awakens a long-dormant magical demihuman (though they don’t interact at all).

They kind of freak out and beat it back to the town, but pandemonium is already everywhere. This is Tenegrity. In addition to some other magical powers, of teleportation and stuff, she can make/be nearly exact simulacra of anybody, in fact multiple people at the same time. She pretends to be most members of the town and talks to them and  gets their feelings on most other memmebrs of the town, so she knows who everyone knows and how they think. She can read thoughts and set things on fire too; the town knows it’s under magical attack (sirens going off etc.), and the kids return back in disarray to try to set things straight.

But golden boy hides, certain that he’s angered her and she will beat him up; teleporting boy is nowhere to be found; the girls are suffering a lack of planning and something with their mother. Slash just confusion.

Anyway, eventually all the townspeople end up assembled in a cental shopping mall. Fire Chief Dad is there in front; tons of teachers and principals and clerks and other humans are milling about on escalators and so forth. Golden Boy slinks out of addressing the crowd, and instead abruptly announces he’ll go talk to her (in her own section of mall, with magic and tons of duplicated bodies). Not sure if he’ll live of not.

As he goes through, he remarks how she prefers her own company – not only so many bodies of her, but he knows that she has no bodies in the human crowd. He confronts her over his brother, and she replies by letting him hear the sound of his brother’s voice. He thinks she has him trapped, and he goes to crush her head – which she doesn’t really resist, even though this is very dumb of him – until he realizes she can just instantaneously create extradimensional spaces, and his brother loves that.

She reveals that she is the last of the Named Powers, and something something.

Her name is something involving deception and perseverance, though definitely not evil. Except I just made it up. (Awkward. Well, it came to me in a dream. So clearly she must exist and have some magical power.)

[nightcrawler1975]

AAAAAA I LOVE WEAPON DESIGN

Moonhammer

No pretentious loretext this time. I designed this meteor-hammer belt thing a while back based on the Bakunawa, the moon-eater serpent. The look of the maw is based in part on Visayan tenegre hilts, and the moon and star are based on my uh- Idk what to call it, a brand logo I guess?

I was going to get it made for myself, then I remembered I'm not actually trained to use a meteor hammer, so-

[fatherentropy]

never posted my modding woes here where Hans' Tenegre would only be visible against certain backdrops and just...e verything wrong that happened with his headpiece lmfao orz

[nuriacarreras]

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[handfulsofhistory]

Another perspective on the Visayan Tenegre

[handfulsofhistory]

Fierce face on a Visayan Tenegre

[handfulsofhistory]

Demon head hilt on a Visayan Tenegre

[nuriacarreras]

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