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Naram-Sin: The God-King of Akkad

Naram-Sin was the last great king of the Akkadian Empire and the grandson of Sargon the Great, who founded the empire. Like his grandfather, he proclaimed himself "king of the four quarters of the universe," but in a bolder move, he began writing his name with a sign designating himself a god on equal footing with any in the Mesopotamian pantheon. In spite of his spectacular reign, considered the height of the Akkadian Empire, later generations would associate him with The Curse of Agade, a literary text belonging to the Mesopotamian literary genre known as naru literature.

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NANNA (+ Baldr)

Nanna, the Norse goddess of joy and devoted love, is best known as the wife of Baldr, the radiant god of light. She was also the mother of Forseti, the god of justice. When Baldr was tragically slain, grief overwhelmed Nanna, and she chose to follow him in death, casting herself onto his funeral pyre. In Hel’s realm, she reunited with Baldr and sent gifts to Frigg and Fulla, but unlike her husband, she is not mentioned among those who return after Ragnarok.

A later version of the myth tells a different story : Nanna as a mortal princess loved by Hodr. Baldr, struck by her beauty, sought her hand, but her heart belonged to Hodr. In this tale, the conflict between the two gods over Nanna plays a central role, shifting her from a devoted goddess to a woman at the heart of a tragic love triangle.

(Text by Delia Gosforth, Illustration by Ellen Artistic)

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These illustrations all made it into a Norse Goddess Coloring Book!

(Print Copy)

There are also PDF copies available!

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I've made a few iterations of these little pocket deities, desperately trying to give a face to the gods I've been learning to work with.

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For the last couple weeks of the school term I’ve been pumping out exploratory sketches of the cast of my ya novel to get a better handle on how I’d like them to look

Have some drawings of Lilith at various stages of her life with all the people she knows and has known in the six thousand years she’s been alive!