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This is good, but I feel like it would belong better on WL.
Where even fewer people will read it.
It deals with the Foundation universe. It remains on the Foundation site. People can deal with it.
Same universe. Just saying. Now to actually read the full thing.
(account deleted)Please explain all and every references here. Not complainings, just explanations…
The Scarlet King is self-explanatory.
Sanna is an alternative name for Sedna, Inuit goddess of the underworld and deep ocean.
682 is a child of the Fourth Bride.
The Tree of Knowledge is the Library.
The Brothers Death are from 1440.
Everything is Whales.
I want to upvote for every one of these this is beautiful I want more aaaaaaaaaaa
One more: A'habbat, mother of those who hunt Leviathans. Of those who hunt whales.
I'm considering revising an old scip of mine to be one of the Leviathan children, and doing a faux-rewrite of 682 to match it, and there is always room for the others to be made.
The children of A'habbat are going to be pretty bitchin' to see in action. Antimatter harpoons.
The Tree of Knowledge is the Library.
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I was literally discussing an almost identical concept half the night on IRC tonight regarding the Serpent's Hand, with no clue that this existed.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Sanna is Sedna?
Does this mean that SCP-1836 is the goddess which Scarlet King had seven daughters/brides with?
The fanbase of the Dust-And-Blood's, SCP-231's and Scarlet King's content, thinks about Sanna as a totally different goddess. Who would have thought that they were originally intended to be the same entity…
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Bruh.
Her seal was ba, “wrath”, for by her hate she was forever bound in conflict
Needs a period.
Overall, this is wondrous and wonderful and I want more of it.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
I plan on a few more tales in this style to flesh out other parts of the mythos.
Yesssss Djoric I could kiss you!
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
and the Three Great Ones.
MC&D?
Just wondering, I can already Imagine that
the Wonder-Maker
Is Dr. Wondertainment.
The sixth bride was A’tellif. She spoke not, and held herself private. Her children could change their faces and move about unseen, and walk among Creation unknown.
I'm starting to belive that those children are Nobody.
They all came to me after reading the GOI page and then reading this tale. Now I can't get them out of my head…
They're giving me a headache
Oh my god.
I just started a project, original fiction, beginning with the creation myth and moving from there. I am now in great distress at my ability to accomplish this.
The best part was putting all the pieces together.
231 is one of the Brides in effigy.
That is, a normal whale used in ritual by worshipers of the Scarlet King in a sort of scripted re-enactment of the original event.
So 231-7, the only one the Foundation is still containing, is an effigy of Hope? Yes. I like this very much.
And while 231's child is not going to be a direct child of A'habbat, it will be mostly like a child of A'habbat.
The Foundation does what it does because it thinks that the seventh child will be an unspeakable horror. What they're really doing is just perpetuating the ritual the cult put in place.
The children of A'habbat seek to overthrow the King. Therefore, they must suffer terribly…
At first I thought that this article was some contrived psuedo-folkloric bullshit that I had seen a million times, and when I saw the obvious 231 reference, I was ready to downvote, but then I saw a word.
"Whale".
You sir, can have my upvote any day.
What's with Djoric and whales? : O
Liked. By the way, they may be dust and blood now, but dust and blood, mixed, give us clay…
The site provides me with many great themes to draw upon.
Agreed.
(But seriously, what's with you and whales?)
… I withdraw my question.
231 as it stands disgusts me. The whale joke is a way of tolerating it, because it's ridiculous and bizarre and horrible and all the more horrible because you laugh at it. That, and it doesn't involve child rape. The premise of "they're raping a whale" is still horrible, but its an exaggerated horrible, rather than a banal one, and it drops its pretension at the same time.
682 gets brought in because it's a picture of a whale corpse.
Ah. As a medic, I've always thought of other options that didn't involve rape. I'm afraid I can't like 231 even when we make fun of it by crossing the line thrice or more times. It comes to show, I think, that human beings can always imagine something worse. But I can only enjoy it when I think how much it moved me, not in what way.
In any case, mythology always brings a feeling of serenity, like watching two stars colliding. It's violent and beautiful just because you can remain removed. The gamma bursts or errant interstellar bodies may still kill you, but astronomy has a distance to it. Same with mythos. Same with ancient history.
Montauk is painful to think about just because of this.
And I have nothing against 682, really. : P
Anyways, it is an excellent tale made of all kinds of stories. Congrats, really.
Edit: Also, can I +1 FortuneFavorsBold's post down there? : 3
I'm liking it. Sounds like a great epic, a real folklore/end of the world tale. Nicely done.
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