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This type of fantasy art leaves me so conflicted because on one side, I want to reblog it for the dragon, but on the other side, I just can't bear myself to reblog such a ridiculous display of "Fantasy is monsters and bikinis".
I checked recently Avatar Press' "Supergod" mini series (I heard of it thanks to all the talks of "super-hero subversions" in fiction that have been going on around) and... on one side it resonates very strangely with today's situation, given the comic was written in 2009 so it feels... very weird.
But on the other hand, while I won't fall head-over-heel for it (the mini-series format does cause a bit of a rushness by the end), it did click in the right places for a bunch of... tropes/motifs that always work for me.
I mean, it falls right between these "depressing-but-I-still-love-them" apocalypse comedies that are Mars Attacks and Doctor Strangelove... And it prolongates my love for "fantasy nuclear war" - which I mainly got into thanks to fantasy (Sourcery and Discworld, The First Law, Adventure Time, D&D's Twin Cataclysms and all that)... But it also returns to a very specific element that I found when I first discovered the genre of the "dystopia".
It is not something that was found everywhere (none of it in "Brave New World", "Brazil", "Soylent Green" or "Metropolis")... But it was a parallel I had noticed between 1984's "Three Ideologies" and I Have No Mouth's "four supercomputers". This motif of, during a Cold War/World War, the superpowers involved having their own "nationalistic menace" that ends up being identical or near-identical to each other, and destroying together the world... I found back a bit of this, but overlapping with another minor-trope I also thoroughly enjoy, the "world divided between eldritch powers". It was a trope that the cartoon "Jackie Chan Adventures" introduced me to, due to the Demon Sorcerers (and later the Oni Generals) literaly splitting the planet among themselves, but that I found back here and there - mainly within "A Study in Emerald" and the way each Lovecraftian deity becomes part of a given 19th century civilization.
This week, we’re traveling to ancient Ireland through The Frenzied Prince: Being Heroic Stories of Ancient Ireland, told by Pádraic Colum and illustrated by Willy Pogány. Published in 1943 by David McKay Co. in Philadelphia, this first edition brings together a collection of traditional Irish myths and legends. Willy Pogány (1882–1955), a Hungarian-born illustrator, was famous for his work on classic legends and fairy tales.
Pádraic Colum (1881–1972) was a major figure in Ireland’s literary revival. Beyond poetry and plays, he devoted much of his work to sharing Ireland’s folk tales and epics with new audiences worldwide. The Frenzied Prince draws from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, focusing on themes of bravery, fate, and the bonds of kinship.
May these tales whisk you away to a land where heroes roam and faeries twirl in every glen!
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--Melissa (prone to being caught in a faerie ring), Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
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Ethiopian Christianity is one of the most fascinating branches of Christianity to be honest, because of how it is such an ancient branch that "split" so early, resulting in its own and very unique beliefs/legends...
Nobody will get this but a Dickens and Lorrain parallel... A Christmas Carol and Les Contes de la Tapisserie... The two "children" of the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the two "pages" of Lord Eros.
The dragon tympanum of the St. James Chapel of the Saint Michael's Church in Sopron, Hungary.
The ‘égig érő fa’ (‘sky-high tree’) is a tree from Hungarian folklore: there exists in the world a wonderful tree with nine jutting branches that, as they churn, send out gusts of wind. So marvellous is this tree that both the Moon, and the Sun can pass freely through its branches. The fabulous tree, protected by dragons, grows in a place only one skilled in the art can find: the average person may hear word of it, but can never see it.
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Scena Illustrata was a popular Italian cultural and educational magazine, founded in Florence in 1884 by Pilade Pollazzi (1852–1940). Originally launched as a biweekly publication covering literature, art, theatre, current affairs, and sports, it emerged following the closure of Corriere di Firenze (1865–1884) and the theatrical publication Carlo Goldoni.
For more than a century, Scena Illustrata documented the evolution of Italian society and 20th-century culture. Richly illustrated with engravings and photographs, it featured reports from Italy and across Europe while paying close attention to social change, technological progress, and emerging artistic avant-garde movements.
I said that Chaudron Magique was known for its... let's call them "goodies". And the ONE bonus given in each and every issue (until the magazine faced strong financial difficulty) was... a card deck.
There was an official Chaudron Magique card game (it was a pretty simple and easy one of rules), and each issue had a cardboard-double-page to cut yourself, to obtain a little deck of cards with which you could play the game. And each deck was gathering various mythological, legendary and fictional entities - after all, it IS a fantasy magazine... Scanned below was the very last deck Chaudron Magique ever released (because, due to their financial troubles, they could not afford paying artists to make the cards anymore) - "The Lords of Water", a deck for the winter issue titled "The Seas of Imagination", all about pirates, mermaids, odysseys and sea-dragons.
I will quickly translate the text on the cards below the cut if you are curious:
Supreme being: Tethys, from Greek mythology. Titanide, mother of the 6000 river-gods and Oceanides. Lives in the Primordial Ocean which borders the great plain of Earth.
Cosmic being: Apsû, from Sumerian mythology. God of fresh water, origin of life, father of the first gods. Lives in the primordial underground lake, from which all fresh water comes.
Cosmic being: Ryûjin, from Japanese mythology. The implacable dragon, lord of the seas, father of the first emperor. Lives in Ryûgû-jô, his undersea palace, from which he controls the tides.
Divine being: Poseidon, from Greek mythology. Impetuous god of the oceans, seas and waters. Lives in a gold palace, in a deep chasm of the ocean.
Divine being: Sobek, from Egyptian mythology. The Great Irrigator, god of waters and floods. Lives in the temple of Kôm-Ombo, on the shore of the Eternal Nile.
Semi-Divine being: Aegir, from Norse mythology. Giant of the seas, fury of the Ocean, father of the Waves. Lives in an undersea palace beyond the islan of Hlésey.
Semi-Divine being: Kamohoali'i, from Hawaian mythology. The shark-god of the ocean, guide of the shipwrecked, founder of Hawaii. Lives in the waters surrounding the islands of Maui and Kahoolawe.
Demonic being: Tlaloc, from Aztec mythology. He who pour outs and makes things drip, the cruel god of water. Lives in the fourth sky, where he receives those sacrificed in his name.
Demonic being: Dagon, from Philistine mythology. The fertilizing fish-god, father of the Deep Ones. Lives in the abyss beyond the town of Ugarit.
Mythical being: Yurlungur, from the myths of Australian aboriginals. The rainbow snake, master of rain-water and well-water. Lives in the Dream-Time.
Mythical being: Ahès, from Celtic myths. Dahut, the Marie-Morgane, cursed and malevolent mermaid. Lives in the sunken ruins of the city of Ys, of which she caused the doom.
Legendary being: The Kelpie, from Scottish legends. The sea-horse, shapeshifting creature. Lives in the water-streams and lochs of Scotland and Ireland.
Legendary being: The Vodianoï, from Slavic legends. Master of the aquatic creatures, father of the Rusalka. Lives in the water-streams of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Legendary being: Van der Decken, from sailors' legends. Captain of the Flying Dutchman, damned soul of the oceans. Lives in a ghost-ship wandering in the Southern Hemisphere.
Legendary being: The Kraken, from Scandinavian legends. Colossal octopus, sinker of ships, terror of sailors. Lives in the deep waters by Scandinavian shores.
Legendary being: The Maymaygwashi, from Ojibwas legends. Hairy-faced merman, mischievious and prankster spirit. Lives by the shores of the Upper Lake of Canada.
Legendary being: The Klabautermann, from Germanic legends. Water-elf, sometimes a friend sometimes an enemy to the sailor. Lives in rivers, but also in seas and oceans.
Ridiculous being: The Kappa, from Japanese legends. Water yokai, farting spirit, lover of cucumbers. Lives in the water streams of the Kyushu region.
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