Myth as Inspiration

I am not a fan of religious texts, no big surprise there. I am, however, a huge fan of mythology. Most of the subjects in my paintings have been renditions of myth or legend. This is the year of my rebirth, or something otherwise as destructive/creative/cathartic, and I am in the process of setting up a room in the house to rekindle my art... surviving has left me without many supplies or much time on my hands, but the drive to create burbles underneath the sea of responsibility unsquelched.

Here are some other renditions of myth that inspire me, found by the age-old method of averting one's eyes, opening a book and pointing. One of them may pique my interest enough to generate the obsession necessary for an acceptable final product. We shall see.


Point number one: Prajapati
"Originally an abstraction allied to the smith god Visvakarma and signifying creative ability... the gods and demons are his children...."


Point number two: Lono and Laka
Lono is something of a brute, with wild mood swings, who kills his unfaithful wife but then feels bad about it and throws a party in her honor every year. Nice.
Laka, sister of this upstanding brute, is the goddess of the woodlands.


Point number three: Yeng-Wang-Yeh
King of the underworld, deciding who was reincarnated and who went to which part of hell.

Others have been inspired...

Prajapati the four-headed, a tribute... not my style but okayyyy...


Hunter S. had this idea that he was Lono returned, when he hit the shores of Hawai'i.


There we go... now THIS is more my style.



A nice smattering of dieties to start my studies, in any sense.

Updates to follow.