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allmythologies · 3 months
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basque mythology: inguma
inguma is the god of dreams and was regarded as a malevolent force who entered houses at night and plagued the residents with nightmares. he also kills people while sleeping.
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briefbestiary · 1 year
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Rather spritely fellows, the small and numerous galtzagorriak live within a box or pincushion. The lot of them are quite earnest and lively as long as their master has work for them when they're out of their container.
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beforeorion · 6 months
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druidicentropy · 20 days
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Aatxe
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Among the numerous animal-shaped geniuses found in Basque mythology is Aatxe. Usually, these animal-shaped geniuses take the shape of male animals like pigs, dogs, vultures, goats, bulls, and rams. They are frequently found close to cave and grotto openings and are mentioned in myths about a world beneath the surface. They are closely linked to the Basque goddess Mari and are thought to be either her servants or her underlings, depending on which interpretation you choose. Natural phenomena are ascribed to these geniuses, who stand in for the forces of the earth.
The English translation of the name Aatxe is "young bull" or just "calf." For this reason, people sometimes refer to it as "red calf," or Aatexegorri.
The Aatxe is the guardian of Grottes de Sare, or Sara's Cave. When someone in his domain offends Aatxe, who often takes the shape of a red bull or occasionally a man, he is known to exact revenge. He is therefore occasionally referred to as the "enemy" or the "demon".
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Ayuso's [president of Madrid] cabinet director in Durango: "In the Basque Country there's an unbreathable air, without freedom neither democracy". Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who will be a candidate in this Bizkaian town, has wondered "since when Basques are people that set borders against anybody, and they're sad, and they have to wear a page haircut cut with an axe".
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Guess this as*hole saw lots of people wearing masks and gas masks around him and though the air was unbreathable when people were actually tying not to get infected with fascism.
See what I talked about recently, that Spanish nationalists change stereotypes for Basques as needed? Now we're sad. When convenient, though, we're too loud and excessive.
And the axe and the haircut. Another classic. Spanish supremacists keep on thinking that Basque nationalists wear short bangs like this:
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It's true that in the early 00s - when the do was trendy, at least around here - there were a couple of Basque nationalist politicians with it and that's where the myth for the far-righters began: the Official Basque Separatist Hairstyle™. They started critizising them because of their looks and saying that they looked like they had cut their bangs with an axe - because, you know, we love cutting trees with an axe in our free time.
This is the level. They still keep on insulting, and hating, and laughing at us. And they have the audacity to come to EH to do it.
F*cking scum.
Edit: oh, and don't wonder, wow, but how are they gonna get any votes from Basques saying that? Nah, they know they won't get votes in Euskadi: their Basque tour is designed to get votes elsewhere.
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barncultus · 10 months
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The Usurped Sun, Triumphant Venus
There is much agreement by scholars that the Sun/Dawn goddess may have once played the role of goddess of love in Indo-European faith practices. Oft-cited is the myth of Eos, whose known for having a great love for handsome men that is said to have been a curse laid by the theoi Aphrodite after usurping the role of love goddess from Eos- who from then on would act only as a goddess of the dawn and non virginal form of Artemis.
I find this endlessly fascinating, as it is apparent that to many indigenous European faith practices- a love goddess is noticeably absent. It is only after the rise of Aphrodite in the hellenic world and her movement via Rome that we begin to see this standard change. Even Venus, the goddess through whom Aphrodite entered the Roman pantheon, was once merely a goddess of fertile soil.
While it can also be said that the Sun is often male in the west, and in this manifestation does not seem to have once held the portfolio of love, exceptions can be found amongst the Lithuanians, Basque, Finns, Hungarians and more. Is it possible that the dawn/sun goddess was once the standard? Before we became obsessed with the gendered dichotomy of the sun and moon (who, in the ancient Euskadi faith are sisters)? Either way, the possible narrative is compelling- and the experiments I have undergone which call upon the Barn Cultus's sun goddess-as-matchmaker have been largely successful.
As the goddess Aphrodite came originally through Ishtar and Inanna, from the East, it seems that while the Sun rises in the East- it once fell there too.
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docpiplup · 1 year
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Brief mythological (and historical) dictionary of 'Irati'
@asongofstarkandtargaryen @queenmiriamele @luceirosdegolados @isadomna
Irati is a compendium of Basque mythology, it involves a review of many of its main figures, focusing on the "regent" of all creatures, the goddess Mari, embodied in the film by the actress Itziar Ituño. The filmmaker confesses that "many more" creatures appear in feature films than one is capable of perceiving, not in vain has he "played" to blur the lines between some mythological beings and others and to "mix". In an exercise of synthesis of the oral tradition, to which scholars such as the priest and anthropologist Joxe Miel Barandiaran dedicated a large part of their work, and with the desire to contextualize the spirit of Irati and the myths that through her gain new life, we offer you a small glossary of creatures, men and facts.
Aker: The goat is one of the beings that is not exclusive to Basque mythology, but also belongs to other traditions and religions. It is associated with the goddess Mari due to its healing abilities, but it is also associated with witchcraft. Not surprisingly, the term akelarre refers to the cult in which akerbeltz was venerated, an animal that, according to Barandiaran, was raised in homes to prevent cattle from getting sick. In fact, Barandiaran refers to him as a protective divinity. In different oral traditions of the Basque Country, he lives in a cave with a snake and is the custodian of a treasure. However, the witch hunt, which in the case of the Basque Country was promoted by Pierre de Lancre in the 17th century, caused the cult of the goat to be associated with the devil.
Basajaun: Being a giant humanoid in shape and covered in hair that lives in the depths of the forest or caves. This numen is related to traditional trades, with livestock, agriculture and blacksmithing. Thus, Basajaun is in charge of scaring the wolves to prevent them from attacking the sheep, which announce its presence with the unison ringing of their cowbells. The fact that it is considered the origin of various trades refers to the myth of Prometheus, the titan who stole fire from the gods to give it to humans, an act for which he was severely punished. According to Barandiaran, Basajaun was the first farmer from whom men, through deceit, obtained the first seed. The Gipuzkoan priest and anthropologist also highlighted that he is considered the first blacksmith and the first miller and, just like what happened with the first seed, the human being also stole the secrets for the manufacture of the saw, the axis of the mill and metal welding. Due to its characteristics it is also considered a jentil.
Eneko Aritza: Eneko Enekoitz, nicknamed Aritza (the oak or the strong), was the first king of Pamplona. The Latin sources name him as Enneco Ennecones, while the Muslims call him Wannaqo ibn Wannaqo. In this second feature film by Urkijo, he is played by Eneko Sagardoy and, along with the character played by Edurne Azkarate (Irati), he is one of the film's protagonists. The Álava filmmaker presents an Eneko before being crowned –he reigned between the year 824 and 852–. His father, also called Eneko (in the film he is played by Iñigo Aranbarri), was one of the leaders of the peninsular Vasconia who ambushed Charlemagne in Errozabal, in a contest that Otsoa Lupus II led from continental Vasconia.
Gentil or jentil: Wild giants of immense strength that lived in mountains or caves and were capable of lifting and throwing large stones. The jentil name is found in a multitude of Basque place names throughout the country's orography. The cromlechs and dolmens are, according to oral tradition, vestiges of these pagan builders who came to live in harmony after the spread of Christianity.
Lamia: Beautiful woman who combs her hair with a golden comb. Although it is anthropomorphic in shape, its feet can be those of a duck, chicken, or goat. It can be found on the banks of rivers and usually requires offerings, generally food (wheat, cornbread, cider, curd or milk). He usually rewards those who give him offerings in various ways. The philosopher Andrés Ortiz-Osés, in his work The Mother Goddess, in which he reflects on the figure of the goddess Mari and her cohort, speaks of the lamias as half nymphs and half mermaids, alluding to Greek and Latin myths. In this sense, Barandiaran neatly collected the different perspectives from which these beings have been described, either as numenas that help in farming or as beings that kidnap men on a whim. The advent of oxen-drawn plows (that is, technology) and the proliferation of Christian hermitages brought about the disappearance of lamias.
Mari: Main goddess of the Basque pantheon and one of the central figures in the film Irati. Urkijo highlights the telluric character of the deity and represents her as Mother Earth herself. As in Paleolithic religions, cavities represent the womb of life and she lives there, in the depths of a cavern, although paying attention to Barandiaran, she tends to periodically change homes by jumping from one mountain to another. She is the mother of the rest of the creatures that make up our mythology and, as Ortíz Osés explains, the goddess Mari is "omniparent", that is, she is the origin of everything and, at the same time, everything is linked. It usually appears combing her hair, cooking or spinning. The four elements converge in it and can be the source of storms and droughts. She is often consulted as an oracle and also rewards those who believe in her. It can be conjured by throwing or stacking pebbles.
Orreaga or Errozabal: In recent years, especially as a result of the investigations carried out by Xabier Irujo, the battle of Orreaga (the researcher claims the place name Errozabal) which took place in the year 778 has acquired new interest. The director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno (USA), after almost a decade of studies using the original sources in Latin, denied many of the legends that have come down to our days, the majority of Frankish origin and that they were written 50 years after the death of Charlemagne (in the year 814) and also the events of the Chanson de Roland.
Before becoming emperor, Charlemagne, king of the Franks, undertook a campaign to develop the Hispanic March, a crusade whose objective was to consolidate a kingdom in the Pyrenees that would act as a barrier to prevent the advance of the Muslim kingdoms, after the start of their invasion in 711. With this objective he conquered the peninsular Pyrenees, that is, Navarra, including Pamplona. After failing in the attempt to conquer Zaragoza, Charlemagne, accompanied by 20,000 men, withdrew to Iruñea and, after destroying it, began the return trip through Errozabal, following a wooded path that connected Auritz with Luzaide.
Due to the narrowness of the track, the men had to march in a line, forming a line of between eleven and fourteen kilometers. It was then when the union between continental and peninsular Basques attacked the neck of the army, behind where the treasure was marching, producing what is known as the battle of Orreaga or Errozabal and which brought the defeat of Charlemagne's army, who fled from the fight and took refuge in Herstal, Belgium.
Irati seeks to be faithful to the latest research but, by ascribing to the sword and sorcery genre in the style of Legend or Willow, Urkijo did not want to miss out on the fantastic options that the Chanson de Roland allows.
Sugaar: A male snake. In some areas of the country, such as Ataun, Sugaar is a being that crosses the sky forming a fiery sickle figure. His presence announces the approach of a great storm. In other places, such as Azkoitia or Zarautz, on the other hand, the snake is the son and lover of the goddess Mari, as well as being the one who combs her hair. When both come together the heavens roar.
Tartalo: One-eyed man-eating creature. He is related to his Greek counterpart, Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon who was blinded by Odysseus in the Odyssey. Tartalo, according to Barandiaran, may be a corrupted version of Basajaun. Very present in the oral tradition of the municipalities of Goierri, Tartalo kidnaps human beings to devour them in the cave that he uses as his home and in which he lives with his sheep.
Zezengorri: In Basque mythology there are several animal-shaped numenas that share characteristic red skin. In addition to Zezengorri (red bull), we can find others such as Beigorri (red cow) or Zaldigorri (red horse). In any case, they are spirits from the subsoil whose objective is the defense of said cavities.
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hello everybody, your friendly spaniard is here back to talk about references to spanish culture in pokemon scarlet and violet while i play the games !!! here's my previous post btw
this one's gonna be a bit shorter cause i haven't been able to play much (uni assignments are a pain in the ass), but i think i found some cool details and wanted to show them to you :)
so, this post is gonna be about one area of the game: casseroya lake. i defeated the titan and wanted to explore it a bit, and at first i didn't see any obvious references to spain so i wasn't really looking hard or taking pictures or anything. from time to time i came across trainers with suspicious names that could lead to something more but i didn't have my hopes up cause, as i have said in another post, all trainers in mount glaseado are basque and i didn't really think we were gonna get something similar in another area.
UNTIL i got to dragon tamer sabela, and something clicked. the suspicious names i had seen until them were like maybe galician maybe not??? i have to add that i don't really know much about galicia or its culture, i've literally only been to lugo one day like last year, that's it. i know, shame on me. anyways, after those names that made me a bit wary, i came across sabela which for me is THE quintesential galician name (if you think you know why i would so strongly associate sabela with galicia try and guess <3). anyways, after her i started paying attention to the other trainers i encountered and they confirmed it: this area is galicia and all the trainers have galician names. i don't have pics from those first ones, but here are some very clearly galician names
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after i realized this was galicia, i started looking more into it, paying more attention and opening my mind. and i realized more stuff. bear with me, again, i know very little about galicia, and places like socarrat trail might have a very clear inspiration somewhere there that i couldn't see. i noticed some other stuff, tho. for example, the topography of the lake area and the little rivers that flow into the sea are literally just rías, which are the most known galician geographical elements. here's a side by side from the game's map and google maps:
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the little beach and islands you can find nearby just by porto marinado are very probably references to the cíes islands
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speaking of porto marinado, i talked about its market place and didn't make much of it at first but, in perspective, it could very well just be a galician seaside town; galicia is the largest autonomous community in terms of fishing and fisheries, and its gastronomy also heavily relies on fish and seafood. once again, i don't know if there's a particular galician town that could be the basis for porto marinado; the ones that come to my mind first are ferrol (i think it's the largest port in galicia but i might be wrong), cariño (btw cariño is a term of endearment in spanish like honey or dear which automatically makes this the uwuest town in the country), combarro (prettiest town in galicia according to tons of people), and sanxenxo (resort town for the rich).
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also!!! the lighthouse next to porto marinado is probably a reference to the tower of hercules, built by the romans in the 2nd century, it is the oldest working lighthouse in the world and has cool myths associated with it, both roman and celtic (you can read them on wikipedia they're pretty neat)
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finally, the most obvious reference to galicia is one of the ten wonders of paldea. i have no idea what's its name in english, but in spanish they're the rocas graciñas (graciñas rocks). fun neat trick to recognize galician words / surnames: if you see a word ending in -iño / a or -eiro / a, it's probably galician. 'graciñas' is like a stereotypical way galicians say 'thank you' in spanish (gracias is thank you), but i don't really know if it's a stereotype or if they really do say it. anyways, they're probably a reference to the costa da morte (coast of death), which made me wish there was a shipwreck you could explore in the area (they don't call it death coast for nothing lol). also they lost a great oportunity to have binacle and barbaracle spawn in this area, cause barnacles are really popular in galicia, there's even a traditional job called percebeiras dedicated to 'fishing' them, it's listed as one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
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i can't believe i was about to post this without mentioning the elephant in the room. that is, casseroya lake itself. galicia doesn't have any mayor lakes (that i know of?) but the largest lake in spain is very close to galicia; it's lake sanabria, in the province of zamora! that is the only logical inspiration behind casseroya lake, there aren't really that many large lakes in spain and especially not in the northwest, there's only sanabria lake.
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and that's basically it! it's nice that they included galicia here even if i still think they could've done a galician city / town, or maybe some ruins in the form of a castro, something like that. anyways, it's something i guess.
this also made me think that i should've been paying more attention to the names of trainers throughout the region cause there's probably more patterns like these that i missed. like there's at least one area full of catalan names for sure, and i fear i've missed it. when all the trainer info is done in wikidex i'll go over them to see if i find something more. for now i looked at the names for this area and glaseado mt in english and they're just normal spanish names :/
anyways, i'll try and pay more attention for the areas in paldea i've yet to discover!!! (basically the area around the fighting team star squad and area zero). hope you liked this deep dive into galicia!
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deathlessathanasia · 1 year
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“One of the most important areas of research in Aegean prehistory is the translation of Linear A, the writing system used by the Minoans before the Mycenaean conquest. It would appear that certain elements of a pre-Greek language have made their way into Greek, usually names ending in -nthos, -ssos, or -eus such as Knossos, Corinth(os), basileus, and Odysseus. The language that provided such words, then, should be the language (or at least a related group of languages) that was recorded in Linear A. To this date, not only can we not read the language, we do not even know to what language family, if any, it belongs. For a while, some believed that Linear A was a Semitic language, thus related to Arabic and Hebrew. Although there may have been some loan words, especially for imported items (think of the word karate being used in English now), no aspect of what is known of the language seems to conform to the linguistics of Semitic languages. For example, the consonant cluster beginning place-names such as Knossos would not be likely to exist in a Semitic language. Others have suggested, and some now do still maintain, that the language is Indo-European, possibly related to the Luwian dialects spoken in nearby Turkey. Yet others think the language may be the elusive Pelasgian, the pre-Greek dialect occasionally referred to in the writings of the ancient Greeks themselves. As the language certainly appears to be pre-Greek, such a hypothesis is not unfounded. But it provides no actual help either, as the “Pelasgians” are even less well understood in Greek history than the Minoans themselves. Finally, there are those who see the Linear A language as simply Minoan, not related to any other languages, much as modern Basque. Ultimately, the problem is that there is so little Linear A to work with. Ventris, Chadwick, and their colleagues had copious supplies of Linear B tablets with which to decode the language, many several lines long. What remains of Linear A is quite paltry, usually just a few signs on a pot or column. Add to this the fact that we really have no certain way of knowing if the phonetics discerned for Linear B are the same as those for Linear A. Thus, we cannot tell if we are even sounding the short words correctly (although see Godart 1984, 121–128, for more on this issue). . . .
Another problem now being reconsidered is the nature of Minoan religion (which would probably be helped a lot by the translation of Linear A). Sir Arthur Evans, who first brought Knossos, and thus the Minoans, to light, was heavily influenced by a school of thought known as the Cambridge School, best expressed in the work The Golden Bough by Sir James Frazer. Much of this school claimed that ancient, “primitive” religions functioned around the need for fertility. Thus, ancient myths, ancient rites, and even ancient gods were all understood as aspects of some massive fertility cult. The center point of such religions, as the ancients understood it, was an Earth Mother/fertility goddess, who usually had a son-consort vegetation god who died and was reborn annually. Even to this day, Stone Age figurines such as the Venus of Willendorf are understood as “fertility idols.” So influenced, Evans, and other scholars after him, seeing the prominence of females in Minoan iconography, have suggested that the Minoans had a fertility cult surrounding the Great Minoan Mother Goddess. This symbolism was believed to explain such “awkward” images as the prominently displayed breasts of the Middle Minoan Snake Goddesses—lactation imagery, according to the Cambridge School.
In recent years, though, scholars such as Christine Morris and Lucy Goodison have challenged such notions, most accessibly in their 1998 publication Ancient Goddesses (Goodison and Morris 1998). Here, they consider such facts as the utter lack of any pregnant goddess imagery in the Minoan repertoire, the fact that none of these “mother goddesses” are ever shown with children, and the fact that the various items decorating the different goddess images— snakes, birds, labrydes—suggest that we are dealing with several goddesses, not just one major one. In point of fact, monotheism was almost unheard of in the ancient world until the rise of Akhnaten of Egypt in the fourteenth century. Furthermore, the evidence from the Linear B tablets shows that there were several goddesses and gods in the Minoan repertoire (names appear in the tablets that are non-Greek and that are associated predominantly with Crete, having few to no cults on the mainland). Thus, deities such as Pade, Pipituna, and Qerasija appear from the records in Knossos, indicating Cretan but not Greek deities (Hiller 1997, 211). Some of the male deities, such as Enyalios and Paiawon, were apparently later absorbed by Greek gods—they became Ares Enyalios and Apollo Paean. Even the Minoan iconography shows male deities worshipped in sanctuaries, most notably the Palaikastro Kouros discussed in chapter 8. The notion of a single Mother Goddess and her Dying God consort must now be seriously reconsidered and replaced in the literature.”
 - The Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives, by Stephanie Lynn Budin
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dougielombax · 3 months
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Non irish Jew here
What do you make of those comparing irish/english conflict to palestinian/israeli conflict and what might i be able to point to to counter such comparisons when speaking to irish?
Idk how to counter such comparisons but I can say this much.
This is gonna be a bit long but I hope it provides some clarity.
Well.
I can understand why they’d make such comparisons but it’s never that simple.
For one thing, equating Irish republicanism with Palestinian militant activity risks linking it to Hamas, and by extension to Islamist activity as a whole, which I don’t like.
(I’m aware there are also non-Islamist groups in Palestine too but still)
(Now it is true that the PIRA had relations with the PLO, but they didn’t work with Hamas or PIJ or any other such groups. (They also had relations with ETA in the Basque Country and the ANC in South Africa.))
Because this in turn can feed into the myth of Ireland being an antisemitic country. Which it isn’t, the British will tell you otherwise because of decades worth of propaganda bullshit.
Fwiw I support peace and a two-state solution. But many idiots have called me naive and stupid for doing so.
All I can say is that Irish republicanism operates on its own terms, while Palestinians have repeatedly been used and exploited by the likes of Syria and Iran. Sickeningly so.
Irish Republican violence has also never been motivated by any desire for ethnic cleansing or religious motivations. (I’m aware that non-Islamist Palestinian political groups also exist and that many are happy to coexist with Israel but still)
Many people in Ireland don’t like what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, but it doesn’t mean we support Hamas. Because we don’t.
As I’ve said many of us just want peace and a two-state solution.
And the Irish government doesn’t support Hamas either. No Irish political party does. (You might find the odd crank who says they do but they’re morons)
Sorry if it sounds like I’m repeating myself a lot here btw.
I just needed to clarify my stance on a few things.
I can say this much.
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allmythologies · 1 year
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a-z myths: eate; basque mythology
eate is a storm god worshipped by the ancient basques. in some sources he is also the god of fire and ice.
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gamingstar26 · 1 year
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For my myth au: Don Dugo as a Sugaar from Basque Spanish Mythology idk which colors to go with.
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inaaontheskyways · 7 months
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Since all my OCs come from different corners of the Spiral and are of varying mythological beings, I decided to compile a list of both their origins and occupations!
(Sidenote: some details about certain worlds! Those in purple belong or were reimagined by me, those in green are just canon worlds renamed by me, and those in red belong to @prince-of-khrysalis and @brewbellwizardry!)
Caelum: Eva (Filipina-Palestinian-Calé/angel; astralmancy/Eden caretaker)
Lemuria:
Kalpana (Nepali/cthulhi; spatiomancy/avatar)
David (Jewish American/lich; chronomancy/conman)
Milagro (Dominican/sylph; thaumaturgy/hoop aerialist)
Heroica:
Vontae (Black American; physical, hero trainee)
Iina (Navajo; mental, fashion major)
Airam (Nicaraguan-American; almighty, freelance hacker)
Binna (Korean-American/A.I.; reality/idol)
Melanie (White American/virus; reality/villain sidekick)
Kamiyah (Black-Ecuadorian; disempowered, street racer)
Empyrea:
Eranuhi (Armenian Lom/pixie; solarmancy/Miracle Mitch's assistant)
İnayət (Azerbaijani/pig; divination/keytarist)
Shushana (Georgian Jewish/alphoi; lunarmancy/singer)
Grizzleheim:
K'ila (Greenlandic Inuit/snow angel; thaumaturgy/martyr)
Greko (Finnish/näkki; privateer/Ironclaws leader)
Cedine (Afro Norwegian; musketeer, Wolf ranger)
Othi (Swedish Romani; swashbuckler, Splithoofs fighter)
Sarai (Danish Jewish; buccaneer, wanderer)
Darkmoor:
Sevastjan (Estonian/werewolf; solarmancy/W.C. Forces guardsman)
Vidas (Lithuanian, vampire bat; thief)
Līga (Latvian/gargoyle; chronomancy/bounty hunter)
Greeta (Estonian; necromancy, Rickoyoto student)
Polaris:
Prokhor (Russian; divination, Ravenwood student)
Hadria (French Algerian, arctic hare; La Révolution lieutenant)
Théane (Monégasque/matagot; conjuration/bartender)
Hilol (Uzbek, courtesan)
Nima (Buryat, half-polar bear; cigarette boy)
Gamassa:
Priscila (Cuban/avialtri; umbramancy/researcher)
Jacinto (Afro Venezuelan/changeling; conjuration/Arcana student)
Roshan (Iranian, half-bunny; ex maiden-in-training)
Yuuto (Japanese/cambion; mysticism/hitman)
Karamelle:
Goldie (Austrian Jewish; conjuration, Ravenwood student)
Elise (Papuan/gnome; theurgy/figure skater)
Aulia (Indonesian, half-raccoon; housespouse)
Rayner (German Turk/elf; lunarmancy/doctor)
Avalon:
Vaino (Welsh Romani; pyromancy, Ravenwood student)
Carmel (Welsh Jewish; necromancy, alchemist)
Meriful (Scottish Romani/anthusiai; necromancy/druid)
Darina (Afro Irish, half-deer; budding writer)
Marleybone:
Sestiva (Irish; necromancy, Ravenwood student)
Zakhi (Afro Scottish; buccaneer, Shatterhands tank)
Trainet (Scottish Romani, mouse; Quarrel Mob moll)
Wysteria:
Bisera (Bulgarian Turk; thaumaturgy, assitant librarian)
Peritz (Jewish Canadian; theurgy, Pigswick student)
Monquista:
Zãne (Basque/aidegatxo; divination/smuggler)
Yeniel (Afro Spanish/anjana; theurgy/healer)
Jamilla (Portuguese Jewish/anjana; mysticism/astrologist)
Cosme (Spanish; stellarmancy, aristocrat)
Wizard City:
Tiena (English Romani; lunarmancy/handyman)
Alura (Black Canadian; conjuration/W.C. Forces artificer)
Epimetej (Bosnian/half-draconian; pyromancy/Ravenwood student)
Coloratura:
Ithal (Irish Romani; sorcery, W.C. Forces knight)
Cherie (Haitian/elf; spatiomancy/concubine)
Zulekha (Lebanese/ghost; chronomancy/ex-concubine)
Kinna (Welsh; pyromancy, head priestess)
Dragonspyre:
Ivan (Serbian; necromancy, Dragonhorn Order knight)
Uana (Romanian; divination, Storm Department major)
Yakov (Bulgarian Jewish; thaumaturgy, Chivalric Forces trainee)
Mateja (Slovenian; pyromancy, Dragonhorn Order knight)
Qendräk (Albanian Ashkali; conjuration, Myth Department major)
Eldra (Croatian Romani; theurgy, Life Department major)
Andrej (Macedonian; sorcery, Balance Department major)
Vitalia:
Ariele (Italian Jewish‐Tunisian/half-guinea pig; dualism/Shatterhands bag-boy)
Lereia (Italian Jewish-Tunisian, porcelain doll; hitch-hiker)
Luretta (Sicilian Moroccan, half-unicorn; Resistance spy)
Valente (Genovese, unicorn; Armada soldier)
Aquila:
Titania (Greek; privateer, Shatterhands 2nd-in-command)
Zinon (Greek/elf; mysticism/wanderer)
Spisene (Greek Romani; divination, Arcadia student)
Taysa (Afro Greek/asteriai; stellarmancy/Arcadia student)
Mirage:
Yousef (Saudi/vampire; thaumaturgy/House of Tabbi captain)
Wafae (Afro-Omani/avialtri; spatiomancy/wanderer)
Ku-aya (Iraqi/udug; umbramancy/Silenus' ward)
Krokotopia:
Meresamun (Nubian; chronomancy, Temple of Balance priestess)
Kreianos (Nubian/half-krok; pyromancy/Medjai commander)
Fibruniyah (Copt/undine; divination/ferrywoman)
Wagguten (Berber; sorcery, Temple of Balance trainee)
Zafaria:
Resego (Tswanan; necromancy, Arcanum researcher)
Umklomelo (Zulu/tikoloshe; necromancy/blacksmith)
Mooshu:
Dechen (Tibetan; theurgy, Ravenwood student)
Choua (Hmong; mysticism, Shatterhands witch)
Nengmei (Chinese/huli jing; pyromancy/bride-to-be)
Zayaa (Mongolian/frog; thaumaturgy/Shangri Baa apprentice)
Rajah:
Fulki (Santhal/guhyaka; conjuration/princess)
Zeenat (Pakistani/genie; miraclism/Fulki's contractor)
Yago:
Luntian (Bisayan/kataw; lunarmancy/babylan)
Liwliwa (Iloco/diwata; stellarmancy/loner)
Wallaru: Jiemba (Wiradjuri/mimih; solarmancy/Didgeri dragon caretaker)
Celestia:
Aroha (Maori/ice construct; thaumaturgy/Ravenwood student)
Fielea (Tongan/swan maiden; astralmancy/Eight Legs agent)
Mikaere (Maori/lunari; spatiomancy/bodyguard)
Skull Island:
Julien (White Caribbean; swashbuckler, Shatterhands captain)
Haydée (Puerto Rican/elf; sorcery/Gravulum Order researcher)
Aviarios:
Daniel (Jewish American; underground fighter)
Lázaro (Cuban-American/cagueiro; lunarmancy/private eye)
Audélia (Jewish American, half-canary; tabloid reporter)
Tiara (Japanese-Chumash, ladybug; aspiring starlet)
Cool Ranch:
Otaktay (Lakota; musketeer, Shatterhands sniper)
Jewel (Black American, half ball-tailed cat; magician)
Basilio (Mexican, coyote; sheriff)
Heyra (Mexican/duende; solarmancy/amateur monstrologist)
Coatlán:
Tlacelel (Nahua/nagual; chronomancy/bounty hunter)
Nayeli (Zapotec/cactus dryad; sorcery/photomancer)
Melodioso:
Odalis (Panamanian/myrmeki; theurgy/bride)
Yasmin (Brazilian/boiúna; sorcery/mercenary)
Painé (Chilean/carbunclo; astralmancy/bard)
El Dorado:
Raymundo (Colombian/solari; solarmancy/prince)
Yadira (Colombian/stellari; stellarmancy/princess)
Khrysalis:
Nona (Assyrian/pyros; stellarmancy/shadow hunter)
Isidora (Guatemalan/squirrel; conjuration/war messenger)
Shay (Irish Jewish/sea slug; pyromancy/code breaker)
InvictaMane: Kem (English Romani/incubus; theurgist/court jester)
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albertserra · 1 year
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Oh hey!! Not sure if you ever heard of it, but I'd like to recommend you the movie "Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil". It's a Basque movie (all of it spoken in Basque) based on a Basque myth. Not sure if you've ever had the chance of seeing a movie in Basque, but it's such a fascinating language unlike anything I've ever heard before. Also it's technically a horror movie, but more on the fantasy horror side rather than gorey horror.
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not me getting niche movie recs from autonomous communities in spain bc of my albert serra url... yess. watchlisted! sounds interesting
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musicallisto · 8 months
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hi hii!! sending some hugs and asks your way💖🌷
Candy Apple: How do you think others view you?
Macaroni and Cheese: What makes you think of your childhood?
Eggplant: Explain your url and avatar.
Candy Apple: How do you think others view you?
the best way to gauge how other people view you is to ask someone you're not very familiar with - maybe a friend of a friend, a classmate you've had lunch with a few times - to sign something of yours, like a yearbook or a t-shirt. most of the time they'll want to make it a bit personalized but they have to go off their vague first impression of you. in my case, what I always get is "positive, always in a good mood, and funny". soooo yeah <3
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Macaroni and Cheese: What makes you think of your childhood?
Soooo many things? I am never not thinking about my childhood, not in an angsty way (for the most part), I'm just a child at heart. random things in bulk: seashells, early-morning disney channel runs, long car rides in the basque country, clouds, that one cough syrup that tasted like strawberry and i'd pretend i was sick just to have some, handstands in water, pokémon, rosaries, agatha christie books
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Eggplant: Explain your icon and url.
Ohhh I'm always getting asked that! my icon is bang chan from stray kids <3 he was assigned to me in a dream Olive had (wish i could make this up) and i had Never heard of skz before but every day i am blown away by how aggressively accurate that random vibecheck was because he and I are sooooo similar it hurts. we have similar personalities, similar humor, similar mannerisms, similar interests and honestly i wish he would stop copying me like i know he's obsessed w me or whatever but he doesnt have to make it SO obvious
as for my url, a lot of people have super different interpretations of it despite me thinking it's actually pretty obvious? But it's a portmanteau of music (or musical) and callisto, which is my favorite celestial body. it's one of jupiter's galilean moons (jupiter IV) and she is so beautiful, even more so in person through a telescope. i could go on about like the ~symbolisms~ of why I like her (because she has an underground ocean that may harbor life, because her surface is the oldest and most heavily cratered object in the solar system—she is so saturated that any new crater replaces an old one—but those craters and bumps are what makes her shine so, like a miniature version of the cosmos itself) but mostly, at the time I came up with it, I just thought it sounded nice. besides, her mythological counterpart is very beloved to me. So yeah, at the end of the day musicallisto is just me conjoining three of the most important motifs in my writing: music/sound, space/sky, and myth/folklore. <3
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look at her. doesn't she look like a starry sky herself?
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We came across this jewel on YouTube??! This is a Basque animated film called Kalabaza Tripontzia, from 1984 and directed by Juan Bautista Berasategi. The movie tells the story of three Basque myths: Tartalo, Kukubiltxo and Galtzagorri.
Completely in Euskara, no subs available 😔. The animation may be a bit scuzzy, but it's one of the first Basque animated films so let's give it that.
Fun fact: the narrator's voice belongs to Kandido Uranga, the smith of Errementari.
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