Ome is based on a very old character of mine originally called "Soul" who started off as my avatar in the DS game Drawn to Life. Originally they were a physical entity of contrary forces and balance in a humanoid form which ironically had 8 wispy spike-like protrusions on the sides of it's head which translate well to the External Gills on an Axolotl.

One thing I like about Drawn to Life despite not being a very religious person myself, the game manages to tell a Christian Story without explicitly saying that it's Christian or telling you what you should believe. In the game you are The Creator, basically the God of this world, but also The Creator is a character with a voice in the game, and you play an avatar character of the creator that is animated from a humble wooden Mannequin, so you are a Holy Trinity. However despite being the God, one thing that stands out to me is that the Villain is right in some ways that you...or the Creator in game is not universally good. Wilfre is basically Lucifer the fallen Angel turned Devil who was Prideful and tried to play god, but he also represents "Free Will" and defiance against Authority that seems unjust, and too an extent he is right! He is STILL absolutely a villain who would be just as bad if not worse of a ruler than the Creator. He deceives, he corrupts, he destroys, and he ruins people's lives because he thinks his life is more important than everyone else around him. It comes to a head at the end of the second game where it's revealed that The Creator is going to destroy this world and your own actions have been in service to that end. Wilfre meanwhile want's to keep this world going on and on forever, but under him the world would become a bleak existence for everyone, and he can't stop it from ending eventually but it would be a slow agonizing decline.

Yin and Yang come from Chinese Taoism. Taoism is more of a Philosophy than a religion; Their main belief is that the best way to live life is to move WITH the flow of Nature rather than fight against it. The Yin Yang by that nature, is neither Good or Evil because those are human constructs that change depending on culture and perspective, they are instead the cycle of complementary and interdependent forces in nature that are in constant flux and able to become one another.

In Aztec myth there are pervasive themes of Duality and Cycles; Their Supreme Primorial Creator God; Ometeotl is the being of absolute Balance and Duality that's actually two gods that fuse and can become a combined being that is both male and female split down the middle. Axolotls are also Mexican and are revered in Aztec Culture as the animals of the God Xolotl a psychopomp who represents Sunset and the transition between life and death.

Ometeotl, the god of duality, is a self-created god that divided “himself” into two, a male and a female: Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, “Two Lord” and “Two Lady” (Or Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacihuatl, “Lord/Lady of our Sustenance”). They reside in Omeyocan, the highest of the 13 heavens, and they are responsible for the creation of the four Tezcatlipocas.

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The Cosmic Egg is a symbol that appears in several mythologies around the world, specifically in cosmogony. Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Hindu and Finnish creation myths to name a few. They usually describe the world coming from the different parts of an egg, or a creator deity hatching from one, then creating the universe. A summary of some of them with respective links is here.

The Legend Of The Suns is the Aztec creation myth, and it fits Monkey Wrench to have the cosmic egg appear in its pilot, specially as the introduction of the show. I believe this is what the “Ghost Egg” is referencing.

There is no cosmic egg in Aztec mythology, though. The closest thing we have to that is Ometeotl, the self-created god who, as the creator couple, are the “parents” of the main four.

The “ghost” part of the ghost egg comes from the fact that the Potoo family are, well, potoos. The potoos are a bird family found in Central and South America. They have many names, such as kakuy, guajojo, or like in Paraguay, urutau, “ghost bird”.

You can see that Queen Potoo is designed after a potoo bird, whereas Nobert is based on a parrot.

Beautiful.

These two have a ghost egg, or a cosmic egg motif. These two serve as the very first bit of foreshadowing of the possible trajectory of the story.

I feel like it’s completely in the spirit of the series to have the two primordial creator gods, the ones that started everything, the ones that are the highest above in the 13 heavens, and make them joke characters. Also, how convenient that they’re voiced by the two creators of the show!

Drew multiple members of the Aztec pantheon. This isn't even scratching the surface but here's a few notable members.

In order this includes: Xochiquetzal (goddess of beauty and flowers), Xochipilli (god of parties and flowers), Tlaloc (god of storms and water), Chalchiuhtlicue (goddess of storms and water), Ometeotl (primordial creator), Mictecacihuatl (Queen of the dead), Mixcoatl (god of stars/ sky father), Coatlicue (goddess of the earth/ earth mother)

I do plan to draw more of these guys in the future and even commission art of them from better artists in the future too!

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