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Keisha: Sylvia was on the ground, trembling. And I understood. She did too. I took her hand. “Guess that was my life,” she said. “It’s not like that,” I said back, cradling her head. “Oh it is. And it wasn’t too long I’m alive. But at least I get to live it forever now. “ Her trembling increased. It wasn’t like shivering or the spasm of muscles. It was like all of her atoms were vibrating with more and more intensity. She became blurry.

When a person believes in an idea or an ideal, or a view of the world, it can change them. It can shake them completely.

The blurriness subsided and there was a person exactly Sylvia’s size in a hoodie. Looking in the hood, I could still see Sylvia’s face looking back. “I want you to know that I chose this,” she said. “I could have gone another way, but I wanted this.” Then her face was gone, and there was only the empty black of the Oracle.

It was always people. Thistle were people and the Oracles were people, and we were all just people struggling for an idea of what being a person should be like.

If people could do all this, then we could undo it. It was time.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒕, 𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒓

Another goddess from the Baal Cycle of Ugarit. She's probably famous enough that she hardly needs an introduction.

She is the warrior who strides through bloodshed, yet also the maiden who sings across the fields while braiding her hair.

She trampled Yam underfoot and ripped Mot apart with her own hands, earning immortal glory through her countless deeds.

Just as I did with my design of Shapash, I incorporated a few Egyptian elements to give her a more distinctive appearance.

I (immortal goddess), was feasting at the house of a mortal lord, when I saw the finest bow that has ever been in the entire land. It was so beautiful that I got caught up in imagining holding it and shooting with it, and spilled my drink all over the floor without noticing.

Turns out this bow belonged to the mortal lord's son (20M, I will call him A). I offered to buy the bow from A in exchange for gold or silver, but he refused my offer, and said I should ask the craftsmanship god who made his bow to make me my own bow instead (I do not want a new bow, I want this one). Then, when I offered to make him immortal if he would give me the bow, he accused me of lying, saying that it would be impossible for me to grant immortality to a mortal man! On top of that, he also told me that bows are tools of strong male warriors, so why should I want one when I am a woman? (I am a goddess of war and hunting).

I told him that he should apologize for his words, lest I trample him underfoot, but he did not apologize. So I pretended to forgive him, then flew high up in the air above him and dropped one of my subordinates (who I had transformed into a living arrow) onto his head. I did this without using a bow. His veins burst, his blood surged forth, he was butchered on his knees, and now he is dead.

My family seems upset with me for doing this, especially since A was his father's only son, granted to him as a gift from my brother when he was unable to concieve a son on his own. Now he is without a male heir to continue his line. My brother is upset by this, and believes that my actions were unreasonable.

In my defence, I did go ask my father, who my brother had to ask for permission to cause A to be born, to give me permission to kill him. He was hesitant at first, but after I told him I would crush his sons in my right hand and stain his grey beard with their blood he changed his mind and decided I could do it. (Clarification: These are different sons than my brother. I like my brother and would destroy anyone who ever hurts him.)

I personally do feel somewhat regretful for killing him, especially since the bow was accidentally destroyed when he died. However, he was very rude to me. Also, watching him die was pretty awesome. I am currently feeding his corpse to the eagles.

So I made this months ago but never shared it here because I feel like Tumblr doesn't behave very well with videos. But now i'm locked out of the tiktok account where I did post it so Tumblr gets to have it too.