One Truth and One Secret

Strewth is psychologically and physiologically unable to tell a falsehood. Strewth's origins vary, some say they're a life-form grown from a Bejesus feather, others say that they're another of Gosh's divine messengers. People would ask, but Strewth hasn't been seen for years.

No one knows who Snap is.

Beings of Exclamation

Great Caesar's Ghost is the spirit of a departed leader the the Eternal City (the name was a misnomer, it turned out). Once tried to build a tower into High Heaven, saw something while at the very top, stuff went down, and is now a ghost. Now he acts as a monitor of the worldly plane, and basically tries to warn people away from acts of folly and hubris.

You know when you see something that leaves you speechless and you whistle in astonishment? The Whistler did that when it saw the birth of the world. Technically qualifying as a wind god, the Whistler has mastery over wind instruments such as flutes, fifes, and whistles of all sorts. And cleanliness, some believe. It is commonly agreed that the Whistler whistling in astonishment on the seventh day of Kingdom Come will officially signal the end of the world. Last seen performing an impromptu concert on an asteroid to a small group of little green men and foos.

Good/Bad/God/Demon

Abraxas, from Gnosticism. Usually depicted in the form of an anguipede, a creature with the head of a rooster and legs of snakes.

Messenger of the Minced Oaths Pantheon

Odgka (pronounced Odge-Kaa), the official messenger of the Gods, an appointed mortal temporarily transformed into a demi-god at certain points of their life whenever the gods need a gofer.

Manda-Stropheus

Manda as a Tanystropheus.

Can't say that Manda's long/chinese dragon design was not as impressive when placed in the same setting as Godzilla or Ghidorah. I felt like tanystropheus was a nice fit. Serpentine, aquatice, reptillian, toothy.

The neck was originally going to be a lot longer, but it didn't sit right with me.

Baal Buster

A piece from earlier this year that I’m actually glad I finished. Baal Hadad battling the sea serpent Yam, a scene from Levantine mythology. These figures are seen as transliterations of Marduk and Tiamat, respectively, and having already done a work featuring those two, I took some liberties as far as depicting these two.

Baal Hadad would eventually become equated with satan by Abrahamic religions, eventually becoming Beezlebub. With that in mind, I thought a pre-fall Beezlebub, already interested in flies, would be an interesting thing to draw. As for Yam, Tiamat is undoubtedly female, often described as being a mother to monsters and having an udder. If Yam was to exist in the same world, I would think it would make sense for him to be a male equivalent, having different coloring, differing ornaments decorating his head, not having an udder and generally exhibiting sexual dimorphism.

Tiamat’s, and presumably Yam’s, offspring are quick to help Yam fight, but are kept at bay by Baal’s fly minions. This is just a few short seconds before Baal shoves that lightning bolt down Yam’s throat.

That Hallowed Aurochs

Unfortunately for the Phoenicians, their holy cow was much more demanding.