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sepulchrypha · 3 months

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"The Horned Serpent's inflamed lung"

#fan art #monument mythos #the horned serpent #george washington suffers a lung infection #shitpost

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weirdozjunkary · 1 year

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There is no prophecy.

There is only me.

#art #fanart #monument mythos #the nixonverse #the crescent king #the horned serpent #analog horror #digital horror #mister manticore #the Ed Dwight paradox

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rainbeausworld · 3 months

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The Horned Serpent

So before I get started on this one, I have a couple of things to get out of the way. First, I will be using she/her pronouns for the Horned Serpent; this is just because UPG and because I'm used to it. I know someone else who venerates/worships the Horned Serpent, uses they/them pronouns for them, and considers them to be beyond gender / present as whatever gender they feel like. Second, I will be focusing on my interpretation of her on the Gundestrup Cauldron, in part because there's really not a lot of literature on her, even when you include works that specifically analyze Cernunnos' depictions. Third (and related), I will be using the National Museum of Denmark's estimate as to when/where the Gundestrup Cauldron was made, which is roughly in the Danubian or Wallachian Plain(s) around 150 BCE to 1 CE (link).

So first a little historical & cultural context. This area, as far as culture groups, would have been a heck of a melting pot, between the Dacians and Thracians that already lived there, the Scythians coming in and also living near by, the Gauls that moved in around the 300s-200s, the Greeks who came up and started establishing colonies along the Black Sea in the 300s, and the Romans, encroaching on everyone's business around the time the Cauldron was built. A pretty solid primer on the history of the region is A Companion to Ancient Thrace, published by Wiley Blackwell.

So I'm gonna try to make sense but it might be a little disorganized going forward. Anyway, onto the actual thoughts & stuff. So anyone who's taken even a passing glance at Cernunnos is well aware of the Horned Serpent, since she is present in basically every ancient art you can find with him. On the Gundestrup Cauldron, she appears three times, all on the interior panels. One is at the Hero's heel, who's holding the wheel; a second is at the end of a line of heroic riders, which seems to be a Thracian horseman motif; and of course the famous Cernunnos panel. In Thracian Tales of the Gundestrup Cauldron, published by Najade Press, Jan Best presents an interpretation of the interior panels as a story, and assumes that Cernunnos is singing in his famous panel, specifically about the secrets of immortality, a concept which was very popular at the time. I agree with this and I also assume that the depiction of Taranis / the wheel god is that he is also singing, and if he is singing then the lions and griffins - both predators associated with kingship (griffins were protectors of the pharaoh, and also decorated certain tombs out in ancient Persia), then the action of passing off the Wheel must have symbolic meaning, such as being handed the Wheel of Heaven.

The Gundestrup Cauldron's exterior also has very clear influence from the Scythians, you can almost 1:1 map the gods based on Herodotus's retelling of the Pontic stories. I believe there are also thematic parallels going on here on the Wheel God panel, featuring a new god/king being given the symbol of his domain. Wikipedia actually has some relatively thorough articles on Scythian religion as well as the genealogical myth specifically, which is the myth that I personally associate with the wheel-giving panel. As well, the animals in this panel don't appear to be particularly concerned with attacking anyone - if anything, the griffins and lionesses are slightly tilted from one to the next, which makes me think it's more likely that they are dancing, especially if the human/divine subjects are singing, especially if the human with the helmet is receiving a high honor, potentially his rank amongst the gods. In this panel, she is just at the hero's feet, not really joining the parade if the animals, but clearly not ready to attack either, but her attention does seem to be drawn towards the hero.

The final panel she is on is the panel featuring the nine soldiers and the heroized dead, represented by the "Thracian horseman" motif. After Alexander the Great and his penchant for having statues of himself be on horseback, it became popular for wealthy men and nobles to depict themselves riding horseback to a goddess or sacred tree (unfortunately my best source discussing this in English is also not great and he comes up with some..... questionable theories), but the popularity seems to have blown up to the point where even deities such as Zeus were depicted on horseback in a similar manner. There are also mentions in a few other sources that the Thracians believed in the ability for people to essentially become immortal after death. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble sorting out my notes and this essay has been nagging me for weeks now.

Anyway, I interpret this panel as what is expected to happen to us after we die - the "ordinary", so to speak, are lead to a deity, likely to be reincarnated (this is honestly just a guess on my part largely due to the popularity of that in Greece for ever, and Grecian influence was in full swing by the time the Cauldron was made), meanwhile the "extraordinary" are lead by the Horned Serpent.

This is where I tie all three together to my upg/theology: The Horned Serpent is a friend and ally to Cernunnos. He teaches the secrets of life after death to those who will listen. The Horned Serpent is by his side during his teaching, and when we die, if we have proven ourselves worthy during life, she guides us through the trials of the afterlife. If we succeed in these trials, we are awarded with apotheosis - becoming a god or godlike - and she stands by our side as we earn this prize.

@musingmelsuinesmelancholy sorry it took me so long x.x & I hope this makes sense!

#cernunnos #thracian polytheism #gaulish polytheism #dacian polytheism #scythian polytheism #the horned serpent #balkan paganism #celtic paganism #paganism

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tempoaryblogformightyjensblog · 2 years

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#the owl house #five nights at freddys #the monument mythos #philip wittebane #emperor belos #William Afton #Springtrap #glitchtrap #george washington #the horned serpent #liberty lung #liberty lurker #(It MIGHT not be him this time but gettting the memes out while I can)

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artbreddo · 8 months

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GUYS HELP I WATCHED TE FREEDOM DAY 2021 VIDEO IM TRAUMATIZED

#artists on tumblr #art #artwork #digital artist #monument mythos #freedom faller #Freedom monument mythos #Freedom day 2021 #IM TRAUMATIZED HELP😭😭😭#george washington #the horned serpent #horned serpent #what the fuck #what the hell #what the fuuuuuuuuck

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itsartistickiwi · 2 years

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Some semi-abstract fanart of the newest Monument Mythos episode! Honestly words cannot convey my love for this series properly, and it's a crime I've never made art of it before. So I wanted to one of possibly the most tragic character of this season: The Crescent King

Reblogs are welcome but please don't repost my art, thank you.

#itsartistickiwi #alex kansas #the monument mythos #monument mythos #analog horror #fanart #the crescent king #monument mythos art #monument mythos fanart #the horned serpent #i finally got over artblock and im so happy #also i watched this episode at 1 am on call with a friend and lost my mind

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sternevogn · 3 months

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WELCOME TO WONDERLAND, LITTLE JOURNALIST.

hiya! an original song by me. :] you can find it on my youtube or soundcloud! ^_^

#monument mythos #the monument mythos #monument mythos au #howard in wonderland au #the horned serpent #howard melrose #music #original music #original song

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xtrastorageblog · 2 years

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I’m curious of people’s thoughts of who the grieving figure was in The Ed Dwight Paradox: D-Day Knight or the Crescent King. I know it’s been a huge debate on the Reddit and Discord and I’m just curious of the consensus over here Crescent King theory points:

It’s the crescent shape turned sideways

It would make sense that he’s grieving/doesn’t want to live

The twist or irony of the Crescent King being called The Last Son of Alcatraz + the D-Day Knight being referred to as the Horned Serpent but now it’s been revealed the Knight is Alcatraz so the CK becoming the HS would be 👌

D-Day Knight theory points:

The Knight can also shapeshift like CK

He’s grieving because he’s Alcatraz matter and just realized it or is still grieving Alice or smthn

The whole “grief turns you into a monster” has only been used for the Knight

He was already wearing the skull and it makes sense that the body looks so weird bc he’s just Alcatraz matter

#my thots #monument mythos #the nixonverse #nixonverse #crescent king #d day knight #d-day knight #horned serpent #the horned serpent #the house in the ocean #thito #honestly im for CK being the HS but who knows

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dinoserious · 9 months

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noodling

#mucking w a design concept of like. pre but near banishment gira. maintaining the shadowy look ive established for it #but more a mix of serpent and saurian. with some impressive horns #not sure ive hit the vibe im trying to work tho hmmm hm hm #ill likely continue playing with it #not shown here but the inside of the mouth would prooooobably be a bright red like the eyes/wing claws #sketch #poke mythos #giratina #pokemon

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puppetmaster13u · 21 days

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Prompt 272

You know what could be fun for Ghosts Are Dragons? How to Train Your Dragon Crossover.

Like, both seafarers and vikings were incredibly superstitious people, even if we don’t see that a lot in the movie series.

And Danny well, he might’ve managed to convince Clockwork that you know what? They do deserve a vacation, fuck the Observants, let’s find a world where we don’t have to worry about the GIW and just vibe!

Now Clockwork, as anyone with eyes can tell, has a soft spot for the little ghost, there are even bets on when he’ll finally bite the bullet and properly adopt the little hatchling. In fact it’s so obvious that several others, Pandora and Frostbite included, borderline kick him out, telling him to yes, do go on a vacation, remember what happened when we all told Pariah to have a vacation and he didn’t? Exactly!

So there they go, a pair, er a trio, um, alright Clockwork currently has six hatchlings with him. Alright. Okay so he’s never had a vacation before (nevermind with his future vision mostly turned off) and is maybe a hint wrong-footed but that’s fine. It can’t be that hard, and really, he easily dwarfs even the biggest dragons in this world, so what’s going to mess with him, hm?

Ah.

Perhaps he should remember how idiotic humans are at times.

#DPxHTTYD #HTTYDxDP #Prompts #HTTYD Crossover #Danny Phantom Crossover #Ghosts are Dragons #I have art of both Clockwork & the Dannys under that tag too lol #But I don’t have art of team phantom rn #Valerie is a western-esque dragon that is a walking tank even while bby #Sam is a wyvern with branch horns & twin vine tails w/ barbs at the end #Tucker is a tusked amphiptere dragon with a cobra hood & six wings #The Vikings get 1 glimpse of Clockwork and start screaming about the World Serpent and the end of days #Dragon hunters have dollar/gold signs in their eyes when they see several unknown dragons #Clockwork: How hard can it be to watch six hatchlings?#Random thing but ghost dragons’ horns look like they’re made out of crystal/gems

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sepulchrypha · 1 year

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THE HORNED SERPENT LIVES.

I wondered where the Knight got the serpent's skull from, and then that line of questioning spawned this idea. Like a terrible revision of the Superman origin story, where instead the Last Son of Alcatraz and the D Day Knight came as infants into the Nixonverse, housed in the corpse of the Horned Serpent.

#the nixonverse #mister manticore #fan art #cosmic horror #d day knight #last son of alcatraz #monument mythos #comic #horror #the horned serpent

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jstor · 1 year

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So some of you knew that there were these musical instruments (aerophone-lip-vibrated horns, technically) called "serpents"? And what, you were just going to wait until we ran into them while whiling away time on the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR (which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone, btw)?

We don't even care what they sound like, we love them.

#aerophone-lip vibrated-horns #horns #musical instruments #serpents #snakes #snek #snakeamophone #what #open access #open content #jstor

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exoalt · 3 months

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