Creation

Creation

Greetings, mythology lovers. I'm currently working on a larger “Creation” project called “Sky Woman," loosely based on an Iroquois story about an extraterrestrial woman who brings plant life to Earth.

The crimes of Goofus are based on folktales from the Jewish Tanakh, which includes books in the Torah and Nevi'im, written between 600 and 100 BC. Some of these books (Genesis, Exodus, etc.) were later integrated into the Christian and Muslim doctrines.

This is sun-god Ra's journey through the Egyptian Duat (underworld) as described in The Pyramid Texts (3100 BCE) and the Egyptian Book of the Dead (1550 BCE). The variation of Bastet taking over as helmsman and bodyguard was added by me.

Bastet was an Egyptian cat goddess whose primary role was protector of the sun god Ra. Her city was Bubastis (house of Bast). Earliest known evidence of Bastet worship is dated to 2890 BC, nearly 5000 years ago.

Besides Bastet and Ra, gods depicted in this strip include Sekhmet (lioness), Mehen (cobra), Khepri (scarab), and Apophis (giant serpent).

The Pelasgians migrated to the Greek peninsula from Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) around 3500 B.C., hundreds of years prior to the arrival of the Proto-Greek from the north.

The Pelasgian creation myth was cobbled together from fragments by mythologist Robert Graves, best known for authoring I, Claudius (1934).

Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Jules Feiffer made books and films for children and adults. He began his career in 1946 at age 17 as a writer and clean-up artist for Will Eisner’s Spirit comics. From 1956 to 1997, he was a staff artist at the Village Voice.

The Tumandok (AKA Suludnon) are the native Philippine people living in the mountains of Panay Island who continually struggle against government oppression.

“Faith is an island in the setting sun, but proof is the bottom line for everyone.” — Paul Simon

“In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.” ― René Descartes

“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll

“The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.” ― H. L. Mencken

The Shuar people live in the rainforests and savanna of Ecuador and Peru. One of their religious practices was to preserve the severed heads of their enemies in order to prevent hauntings and control agricultural magic. Shortly after European colonists arrived in the 16th century, Shuar head-harvesting increased to meet Europeans’ demand for grotesque souvenirs.

Creation #13

Lord Sombov of Frombov

The Buryats are an indigenous people of the Siberian forests. They fought against - and became subjects of - the Mongolian empire in the 1200s and the Russian empire in the 1600s.

Creation #12 Afterlife in Hell

People have been imagining hells and underworlds for thousands of years. According to the religious authorities, you're supposed to end up in hell if you disobey the religious authorities, or because you aren't a member of the correct tribe or civilization.

Respectively, the 6 underworlds illustrated here are Kur, Jahannam, Hindu Naraka, Druj Demana, Gehenna, and Buddhist Naraka.

Creation #11 Yahweh the Unfriendly Ghost

Thousands of years ago, the Israelite tribes worshipped dozens of gods, including Baal, Asherah, and Yahweh. As the kingdom of Israel emerged, it chose Yahweh as the supreme god, and worship of all other gods was banned.

Creation #10 Best Creation Ever

The Nez Perce (Niimíipuu) are a Sahaptin tribe in northern Idaho, USA. In 1877, led by Chief Joseph, they went to war against American invaders. The final panel above refers to the Heart of the Monster national park off highway 12 in Idaho. https://home.nps.gov/nepe/planyourvisit/visit-the-heart-of-the-monster.htm

Creation #9 Wee Wotjobaluk World

The Wotjobaluk live in southeast Australia, along the Wimmera River. In their stories, the sun is a torch carried across the sky by Gnowee, in search of her lost son.

Creation #8 Mungu and the Divine Crayon

Creation #7 Big Deity?

Pastafarianism is a new religion which was revealed to the prophet Bobby Henderson in Corvallis, Oregon. It's practiced worldwide, wherever legal.

Creation #6 Magyar

The Magyars are the southmost Finno-Ugric people who migrated thousands of miles from the Ural River, finally settling around 900 AD in the Carpathian Basin, lands previously occupied by the Huns.

Creation #5 the Nlaka'pamux of Canada