Gugulanna, As Depicted By Fate/Grand Order. Most Videogame/media Depictions Of My Gods I'm Not A Huge

Gugulanna, as depicted by Fate/Grand Order. Most videogame/media depictions of my gods I'm not a huge fan of. Check out Marvel's Ningal to see what I mean. There's DnD's Tiamat, probably Nergal (Nurgle) in Warhammer40k. I don't even like Ishtar in the Fate series, really. But Gugulanna? Good gods this art is beautiful.

prompt 1001

How to Write:

Sit down at your computer, light a candle, and let the ghosts speak.

Teaser for my upcoming video. Incense making is hard when you don't have a functioning nose, but this is why other people are useful. Fun fact: you don't need an expensively carved mortar and pestle, this one was around five bucks. And the Sumerian gods are big on innovation and evolution, so a spice grinder isn't really out of place.

On Nisaba: Epithets

This is just a quick way to dust my brain of ideas before bed, but also a thing I've been interested in. I should be a good scribe and list sources, do some superscript numbers, and all that jazz. I am a sleepy scribe who needs to earn money in the morning, so I'm taking shortcuts like a college student.

Historical terms used for Nisaba:

Mother of the Burning

Priestess of the Country

Purity-Adorned

Noble Lady whose body is the flecked barley

Splendid Radiance

Righteous Wild Cow

Exceedingly Wise

Foremost of the Land

Righteous woman

Woman who swells with joy

Lady who radiates

Exalted Scribe of An

Land-Registrar of Enlil

Beautiful Woman

Lady Colored Like The Stars

Dragon Emerging in Glory at the Festival

Lady Of Broad Wisdom

Lady of the Protective Spirits

Lady of the House of Wisdom

She whose Heart knows Counting

Throne-Bearer of Ninlil

These are not all limited to her, but they have been used to reference her. Her "spheres" if you want to be picky about it are barley, astronomy, mathematics, the act of writing, and literature among other things. There are nuances to her, as with most people.

UPG epithets:

Goddess of Information Technology

Great Librarian

Keeper of the Book of Names

She Who Holds the Book of Life

Lady with hair like mulberry silk

Lady of the Gold Standard

She who is the beauty of the reed wedge pressed into clay

She who dwells in the college coffee shops

Dragon of the book-hoard

Lady of the printing press

She who speaks multitudinous tongues

She who dwells in binary code

Also as a side note, please appreciate the pun in my offering apples and blackberries. In my experience she has a preference for vanilla, too. Check out the chemical breakdown of books as they age and you'll find some vanillin, which is involved in that sacrosanct "book smell". Also almonds, which I'll be trying soon.

Response to all of the sex bots trying to chat me up: I like big books and I cannot lie. Send me pictures of 19th century enyclopedias and you might get somewhere. Honestly I just assume most poorly worded highly nsfw flirting from strange accounts is going to infect my stuff with something unspeakable, and my digital device is a glorious temple that doesn't need lecherous viruses pawing at it. That said, a bot that tries to sabotage nerds by sending them pictures of 14th century illuminated manuscripts and 15th century block books might have more success. Just a suggestion.

Review of the book Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cody O’Brien.

To sum up this book in a single sentence - “What would happen is Deadpool wrote a mythology book.”

Yeah, this guy-

Wrote a book. Here are some examples of why I think this.

GREEK MYTHOLOGY 

The Greek creation myth.

The story of Hephaestus god of Blacksmithing and Aphrodite Goddess of Love.

The story of the Minotaur. 

NORSE MYTHOLOGY

Norse creation myth.

Odin orders Loki to steal Freyja’s necklace. He does. This is so in character for both of them Freyja instantly knows who to blame.  

EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

Ra gets mad at humanity and creates Sekhmet Lion Goddess of Killing Stuff. 

How Isis retrieves her huband’s coffin from the support pillar it got stuck inside.

MAYAN MYTHOLOGY

How to try and kill the god Zipacna and fail. 

CHRISTIANITY MYTHOLOGY

How God made Eve from Adam’s rib. 

The story of how King Solomon judges proper maternal instinct. 

HINDU MYTHOLOGY

Men ask Shiva to stop Kali’s murder rampage.

And this is how he does it. 

JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY

The Goddess Izanami gives birth to the whole island of Japan. 

A story about Tanuki.

AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY

Creation myth

SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY

Creation myth

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Being born

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Meeting his best friend.

NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY

Do I really need to explain why I feel the Merc with a mouth was involved in the retelling here?