{"id":7296,"date":"2019-10-13T18:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2019-10-13T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:56:34","slug":"tiamut-mother-of-chaos-womb-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2019\/tiamut-mother-of-chaos-womb-of-salt","title":{"rendered":"Tiamut, Mother of Chaos, Womb of Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Among the Great Names, none are as dread, nor as venerated, as that of Tiamut, who taught the Earthen-Beings right from wrong that they might rebel against the Giants and taught them writing so that lies would persist as long as truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been difficult to portray her. Tiamat, from whom I draw inspiration, is described in two ways: the salt water mother whose union with the fresh waters of the rivers birthed the world; and as a terrifying monster described only in glimpses that usually sound like a sphynx with the head of a lion, hands of a human, wings of an eagle, and udders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since Labiasam is the Mother of Sea Monsters in the World of Names and I wish to be faithful to the mythological feeling of the setting, I\u2019m being completely unclear about which is what.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, here she is in my first decent sketches. I think she will be something like this in the final. I\u2019m making her features just slightly human, but I don\u2019t want her to quite<\/em> be personable. The character I\u2019m keeping in my mind is that she\u2019s like a 50-year-old woman, who\u2019s had her kids who have grown up and now she, more than anyone, knows how absolutely everything works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite canonical feature of Tiamat, by the way, is the pomegranate of wisdom growing out of her head, echoing the Forbidden Fruit of Gan Eden (do your research, Christians!) and Persephone\u2019s pomegranate that makes her retreat each year, bringing winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Among the Great Names, none are as dread, nor as venerated, as that of Tiamut, who taught the Earthen-Beings right from wrong that they might rebel against the Giants and taught them writing so that lies would persist as long as truths. It has been difficult to portray her. Tiamat, from whom I draw inspiration, … Continue reading “Tiamut, Mother of Chaos, Womb of Salt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":7298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,161],"class_list":["post-7296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves","tag-monsters","tag-world-of-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions\/7299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}