Day 7: Heavenly #atlusfaithful #atlusartober

i was honestly disappointed to learn there is endymion yaoi but not selene yuri ngl. might as well just rewrite the myth in every way possible to get the most mileage out of it

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7970356... First of the three short articles I wrote to make sure nothing cut from the Cybele deep dive goes to waste is now up on my blog. Find out why a god could be referred to as a tyrant, if Pythagoras was an alien, and what happens if the moon has cooties.

it's a shame the alleged sogdian moon goddess (xšwm, "growing moon") is basically just this single mural and a bunch of theophoric names because i can't really tinker with how her sphere of activity would intersect with nanaya's without any indication of her character

telling the random guy from susa who botched casting this cheap votive from a mold that people are labeling his fuckup as half a dozen goddesses from completely unrelated time periods and locations

is that random shark creature in VTMB a joke about jumping the shark

frazerian

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7965039... New "Megaten and mythology" article is up on my tumblr! Find out why Strange Journey is, in a way, a game about Cybele. Make sure to read the warning in the lead, though. #shinmegamitensei #smt #atlusfaithful

i'm aware this sounds insane without context but: I think bad Dumuzi scholarship might be the most "bad goddess scholarship" coded bad scholarship current focused on a male deity

zagar, a z list dream deity who wasn't even the most major dream deity arguably, had a wiki article before gula, arguably one of the preeminent deities through much of history of mesopotamia. with his name misspelled as "zaqar" and no reliable sources, but still

great sages congregate on mesopotamia-adjacent wikipedia talk pages

forgive me, "did a scribe actively fear making shapash lesbian + eblaite sun deity thoughts" draft... i must farm clout with 3k words orphic hymn c-lister articles

one gets the impression that there's a type of person online who seems to assume inanna was better known in greece than, say, isis (who actually had multiple temples over there)

that greek goddess that I love #東方project

i've decided to include a teaser for a one-off ireland special (coming later this year) in the vaguely megaten flavored cybele article (coming this month still)

i've witnessed attempts at "soul hackers 2 was actually good and it is treated unfairly" discourse on the other blue site

treating the magical papyri as the default and every other greco-roman source as an addition to them at best

some might think this is a questionable product name. but honestly i probably would be happy to have a disinfectant of some sort if i were attis

academia dot edu might be genuinely unusable at this point

in RlA Wiggermann briefly considers Ninshubur's character sort of kind of reflecting the perception of Hurrians ("Subarians") in Mesopotamia but afaik the point is not explored further anywhere else

I talked about it before but I don't really like the recurring discussions about "historically accurate Trojans" on tumblr and especially bringing Hittites into it. Whether we take Illiad, the various plays, or the Aeneid, Troy and Trojans are really fantasy more than reality

youtu.be/sO8LmFQ6hWM I, um. finished the Naomi video. I don't know how to feel about this one, actually. It was interesting to research but I don't know if it'll be interesting to watch.

did shigeru mizuki predict labubu

アイアンメイデン

the myth of matriarchal prehistory is the invention of a hyperconservative swiss lawyer whose career prior to that is basically that of a XIXth century swiss equivalent of a RETVRN marble bust profile pic guy

still kind of annoyed that epic of aqhat p much directly says anat's hunting role was perceived as a transgression of gender boundaries, which is in line with the context of hunting as a display of martial valor, but p. l. day still somehow tries to turn it into a "protector of nature" gimmick

i'd probably buy fumo hisami

saw a zanhisa pic on the other blue site which realigned my chakras and opened my third eye

i know this is mean but i feel trying to divine some sort of deep meaning from nishitani's twitter threads is basically that "place, japan" meme but with incoherent boomer social media posts

i might just retool various yoshitsune miscellanea i've been gathering since early 2024 as a megaten article next year. i think a hitokotonushi + en no ozuno double feature could work too

i honestly don't care much for the arguments over whether inanna's namehad some hitherto lost original etymology; emesal and lexical lists treat it as if it was just "nin-anna" and that fits with inanna's character so idk if there's a point in dissecting it more than people back then did

the dynamic between anat and baal is arguably one of the best defined aspects of the baal cycle, and the dynamic between baal and ashtart is reasonably clear too, but the texts where anat and ashtart appear together don't really offer much to go by wrt the dynamic between them i feel

i like this scene from near the beginning of tamamizu monogatari because it's an intentional subversion of a common tang fox story motif - once the fear of dogs kicks in, the human facade falls apart, the fox is discovered, and the story is over

at this point you're no longer really talking about a deity anymore, you're talking about the divine equivalent of what hotdogs are made of, i feel

i've seen english or japanese written in alphabetic ugaritic passed off as "sumerian" more than once

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7932506... My new blog article, "Tribulations of a “tomboy goddess”, or why you should care about Anat" is out. It's not strictly speaking a Megaten article but I cover Megaten in it because Anat has no other notable modern adaptations for some reason.

getting a message in what's the middle of the night in the sender's timezone because they noticed morohoshi is pandering to the antonia demograpgic in new promo art... very auspicious...

the ugarit artist on twitter drew baal/anat/ashtart (in various configurations) a few times and honestly given that anat and ashtart appear together ex. in Drunkness of El i admittedly kind of like this idea. it's compatible with Schwemer's interpretation of the situation, which i agree with

honestly how does the argument anat and ashtart are interchangeable work -in the context of the baal cycle- where how they act towards baal is blatantly different

it seems anat's modern relevance genuinely is limited to megaten and a cameo in that goddamn "Gods of Egypt" movie which is like a non stop streak of white paraoh memes

that dialogue option in the thinblood questline in VTMB which lets to try to convince the diner lady that you are a health inspector so that she tries to bribe you was funny

ayali-darshan's papers are very fandom-y and i mean this in the most negative way possible

i'm not really going to touhoupost but i endorse everything in those two articles i reblueskywhatevered, ESPECIALLY king of hadai

part 2 here just9art.tumblr.com/post/7927977...

Finally got around to writing about the new characters in Fossilzed Wonders with this two-parter. #東方Project #東方錦上京 just9art.tumblr.com/post/7927975...

i keep thinking about the trilingual weidner god list going out of its way to avoid implying shasph x aya to the point they just dropped aya altogether. writing shapash as a deeply closeted lesbian who thinks her counterpart's wife is hot would be funny

Anat article is done, I'll post it on friday

打了个草稿实在懒得画了扔了

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