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I had this dream last week a meeting with Solrac and Dragge discussing some kind of deal Not much beyond thatThis piece holds a lot of memories for me First of all this page is the last one in my sketchbook so I felt compelled to fill it with a bang Second it's been a long time since I first started my fan art gallery so I did a few things in addition to the initial work the pictures around the banner are tinier versions of some of my finer works IMO I originally thought of this place as the Skull Tap tavern so I couldn't resist putting in Murray the talking skull from the Monkey Island games in to the banner Finally I included myself in this work as the bartender something I've never done beforeTo those who are seeing this AW I would like to make dedicate this piece to the following peoplefrom the Megaman Legends Station ForumsDragge your Megaman X and OC commisions have helped me grow in ways I never thought possible I hope I've done Dragge justice in this work snowman one of my few regular viewers You've always helped me to see the unseen when I feel things become difficult I really appreciate thatMr Ninja your obsevartion of one of my works led to the eventual artworks I did of Sanouske Sagara of RK works I never thought I could pull off Many thanks to you for the inspirationsand to everyone else who has viewed my works since I first started up this gallery it's been a humbling experienceI don't plan to stop with this work I got a new sketchbook just waiting for me to fill it Until next time everyoneDisclaimersSolrac belongs to meDragge belongs to Dragge so I can't claim himSanouske and RK belongs to Nobuhiro Watsuki one of the mini pics is of him and ScytheMurray and the Monkey Island games belongs to LucasArtsMegaman X and MM Legends belongs to CapcomThat's about all the important stuff methinks Later

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Athena

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Athena is one of the most fascinating and influential deities of the ancient Pantheon The great Athena was the first to teach the science of numbers and all ancient women's arts such as cooking weaving and spinning She was the goddess of wisdom and war but unlike the god of war Ares she took no pleasure from battle preferring instead to settle conflict through mediationBut that's not to say she wasn't one tough goddess Her mercy was great and if ever it came to her to cast a deciding vote in a criminal trial she usually chose to liberate the accused But don't mess with AthenaWhen Athena was moved to engage in battle she never lost even against Ares himself for she was a far superior strategist and tactician than he generals and wise captains always approach her for advice She bears no arms in times of peace and will usually borrow weapons from Zeus when needed She alone waspermitted to use his fearsome Aegis and his devastating thunderboltsIt's suggested in the Palasgian myths that Athena was born beside Lake Tritonis in Lybia and her father has been variously identified as Poseidon Itonus or Zeus king of the Olympian godsThe most widely accepted version holds that Athena is Zeus daughter and his favorite child and she is often described as grayeyed or flashingeyed In popular myth and in accounts related by her own priests she is said to have nomother because she sprang full grown and in full armor from her father's headThis is not entirely true however Athenas mother was Metis Zeus came to lust after her and wasted no time in pursuing her in his direct way Metis wanted nothing to do with Zeus and tried to escape as best she could going so far as to change her form many times turning into various creatures such as hawks fish and serpents But Zeus was both determined and equally proficient at changing form Refusing to be denied he continued his pursuit until she relentedAn Oracle of Gaea Mother Earth then prophesied that Metis' first child would be a girl but her second child would be a boy that would overthrow Zeus as had happened to his father Cronus and his grandfather Uranus Zeus took this warning to heart When he next saw Metis he flattered her and put her at her ease then with Metis off guard Zeus suddenly opened his mouth and swallowed her This was the end of Metis but possibly the beginning of Zeus's wisdom for many claim that Zeus really had no brains until he swallowed his wifeAfter a time Zeus developed the mother of all headaches He howled so loudly it could be heard throughout the earth The other gods came to see what the problem was Hermes realized what needed to be done and directed the smithsgod Hephaestus to take an axe and split open Zeus's skull Other sources claim that it was the Titan Prometheus who rendered the blow Out of the skull sprang Athena full grown and in a full set of armor The very ancient Greeks believedthat men were solely responsible for conception of a child and the womans only role was to carry it until it was born that's why Metis is not given any credit for Athena birthThere are two distinctly different representations of Athenas character In the classic story of the Trojan War the Iliad by the poet Homer she is a fierce and ruthless warrior goddess who takes pleasure in war and fighting In the Odyssey and all alter poetry she is still very powerful but only fights to defend the State She was the embodiment of wisdom purity and reason as well as the patron of the handicrafts and sciences and agricultureAthena was fond of many Greek heroes and assisted them in their quests helping many of the Greek superheroes attain their goals Those she helped included Perseus Jason Cadmus Odysseus and Heracles She even personally went up to Mount Pelion to cut down the trees to build the Argonauts' boat called the ArgoHer contributions to society were manifold She gave mortals the bridle allowing them to tame and use Poseidons gift horses She also invented the trumpet the flute the pot the rake the plow the yoke the ship and the chariot Of the threevirgin goddesses Athena Artemis and Hestia she was chief and called the Maiden Parthenos To honor her the ancient Greeks built at Athens a splendid temple called the Acropolis with its centerpiece consisting of a temple to Athena called the ParthenonAthena was perhaps the most recognizable of the gods She was always depicted with her unmistakable helmet and the everpresent spear Because she was Zeus favorite she was allowed to use his weapons and armor including the awful aegis his buckler and even his thunderbolts Her shield was also very distinctive after Perseus defeated the gorgon Medusa Athena affixed its head to her shieldIndeed Athena was a brave warrior and she was the lone deity to stand her ground when Typhon attacked Olympus Typhon was the largest most dangerous and most grotesque of all creatures So frightening and intimidating was Typhon that when he rushed Mount Olympus all of the gods ran off to Egypt and hid themselves by assuming the forms of various animalsOnly Athena stood firm and she shamed and goaded Zeus into action Zeus struck Typhon with a thunderbolt and used Uranus' castrating sickle to wound the enormous creature Typhon retreated to Mount Casius where he and Zeus resumed their struggle hurling mountains at one another which resulted in Typhon being crushed beneath what is now known as Mount AetnaMount Olympus and the reign of Zeus was saved thanks to AthenaAthena's favorite companion when she was a child was a girl called Pallas and the two were inseparable honing their fighting skills and sharing good times One time during a practice sparring session Athena accidentally mortally wounded her best friend and grieving sorely for her death Athena made a wooden image in her likeness which was called the Palladium She also took on her name as part of hers and henceforth was often referred to as Pallas AthenaWhen Athena's warlike aspect was most prominent she was often referred to as Pallas As the goddess of war she was responsible for determining the fates of individuals engaged in combat She received no pleasure from battle and could be merciful in fact she often sought peaceful solutions to potentially violent situationsAthena railed against excesses in war or everyday life She taught men to conquer their savage streak to tame nature and become masters of the elements Her adoring subjects called her Queen of Heaven the meaning of AthenaNike the goddess and personification of Victory was often at her side as one would expect of the goddess of war who never lost Not surprisingly Nike was also a favorite of ZeusEven though she was as modest as Artemis and Hestia the other virgin goddesses Athena was far more generous A man called Teiresias chanced upon Athena while she was taking a bath and she was startled to realize that he had entered the room and seen her Not wanting to kill Teiresias for his folly she laid her hands over his eyes and blinded him but gave him inward sight so that Teiresias became one of the most wellknown oracles in GreeceOne of the few times that Athena showed petulance was in her weaving contest against the mortal named Arachne This young woman fancied herself the world's best weaver even daring to compare herself favorably against Athena Hearing this impudence Athena took on the guise of an old woman and appeared at Arachne's house to give her some friendly advice to respect the gods Arachne was too vain to listen and told the old woman to be goneLet the great Athena try her skill against mine and if I lose she can do whatever she pleases with me she boasted That's when Athena dropped her disguise and revealed her true identity All the bystanders fell to their knees in reverence except for Arachne who was unmovedThe two began their weaving contest and for a while Arachne held her own against Athena even poking fun at the gods through the tapestry she crafted but finally Athena had enough and touched the impudent mortal on the forehead making her feel her shame Aghast at the realization of her vanity Arachne ran off and hung herself from a treeFeeling sorry for the hanging Arachne Athena brought her back to life but so that mortals learn that it doesn't pay to compare themselves to the gods she changed Arachne into a spider There she sits her and her descendents forever weaving their web testament to the folly of vanityAthenas special city was Athens patronage of which she won from Poseidon by giving the city the olive tree which King Cecrops judged to be a better gift than the water spring that Poseidon provided Both gods wanted Athens as their ownand Poseidon struck the side of the mountain with his trident causing a salt spring to burst forth Wise Athena in turn created the olive tree which provided people with food oil and wood for their fires Needless to say her gift was far superiorand she was awarded Athens which was named in her honorAthena's tree is the olive and her bird is the owl also a symbol of wisdom Other symbols of this awesome goddess are the fearsome Aegis her helmet shield and spear and she is often pictured holding Nike or an owl

Apollo

salsa88 — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:37:58 MDT

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The son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis Apollo was the god of music principally the lyre and he directed the choir of the Muses and also of prophecy colonization medicine archery but not for war or hunting poetry dance intellectual inquiry and the carer of herds and flocks He was also a god of light known as Phoebus radiant or beaming and he was sometimes identified with Helios the sun god He was also the god of plague and was worshiped as Smintheus from sminthos rat and as Parnopius from parnops grasshopper and was known as the destroyer of rats and locust and according to Homer's Iliad Apollo shot arrows of plague into the Greek camp Apollo being the god of religious healing would give those guilty of murder and other immoral deeds a ritual purification Sacred to Apollo are the swan one legend says that Apollo flew on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans he would spend the winter months among them the wolf and the dolphin His attributes are the bow and arrows on his head a laurel crown and the cithara or lyre and plectrum But his most famous attribute is the tripod the symbol of his prophetic powers When the goddesss Hera the wife of Zeus it was he who had coupled with Leto found out about Leto's pregnancy she was outraged with jealousy Seeking revenge Hera forced Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth Since Hera had forbidden Leto to stay anywhere on earth either on terraferma or an island at sea the only place to seek shelter was Delos being in the center of the Aegean and also difficult to reach as there were strong undercurrents because it was said to be a floating island Because it was a floating island it was not considered either of Hera's prohibitions and so Leto was able to give birth to the divine twins Apollo and Artemis before Leto gave birth to Apollo the island was encircled by a flock of swans this is why the swan was sacred to him As a gesture of thanks Delos was secured to the seabed by four columns to give it stability and from then on it became one of the most important sanctuaries to Apollo A variation of Apollo's birth was that the jealous Hera had incarcerated Ilithyia the goddess of childbirth but the other gods intervened forcing Hera to release Ilithyia which allowed Leto to give birth Apollo's first achievement was to rid Pytho Delphi of the serpent or dragon Python This monstrous beast protected the sanctuary of Pytho from its lair beside the Castalian Spring There it stood guard while the Sibyl gave out her prophecies as she inhaled the trance inducing vapors from an open chasm Apollo killed Python with his bow and arrows Homer wrote he killed the fearsome dragon Python piercing it with his darts Apollo not only took charge of the oracle but rid the neighboring countryside of widespread destruction as Python had destroyed crops sacked villages and polluted streams and springs However to make amends for killing Python as the fearsome beast was the son of Gaia Apollo had to serve king Admetus for nine years in some versions eight as a cowherd This he did and when he returned to Pytho he came in the guise of a dolphin bringing with him priests from Crete Apollo's cult title Delphinios meaning dolphin or porpoise is probably how Delphi was so named After killing Python and taking possession of the oracle the god of light Phobus became known as Pythian Apollo He dedicated a bronze tripod to the sanctuary and bestowed divine powers on one of the priestesses and she became known as the Pythia It was she who inhaled the hallucinating vapors from the fissure in the temple floor while she sat on a tripod chewing laurel leaves After she mumbled her answer a male priest would translate it for the supplicant Delphi became the most important oracle center of Apollo there were several including Clarus and Branchidae Apollo as with Zeus his father had many love affairs with goddesses and mortals Apollo's infatuation for the nymph Daphne which had been invoked by the young god of love Eros because Apollo had mocked him saying his archery skills were pathetic and Apollo's singing had also irritated him Daphne was the beautiful daughter of the river god Ladon and she was constantly pursued by Apollo To escape from Apollo's insistent behavior she fled to the mountains but the persistent Apollo followed her Annoyed by this she asked the river god Peneus for help which he did As soon as Apollo approached Daphne he tried to embrace her but when he stretched out his arms she transformed into a laurel tree Apollo distraught by what had happened made the laurel his sacred tree Apollo also loved Cyrene she was another nymph and she bore Apollo a son Aristaeus a demigod who became a protector of cattle and fruit trees and a deity of hunting husbandry and beekeeping He taught men dairy skills and the use of nets and traps in hunting The most famous mortal loves of Apollo was Hecuba she was the wife of Priam the king of Troy She bore him Troilius Foretold by an oracle as long as Troilius reached the age of twenty Troy could not be defeated But the hero Achilles ambushed and killed him when the young prince and his sister Polyxena secretly visited a spring Apollo also fell in love with Cassandra the sister of Troilius and daughter of Hecuba and Priam He seduced Cassandra on the promise that he would teach her the art of prophecy but having learnt the prophetic art she rejected him Apollo being angry of her rejection punished her by declaring her prophecies never to be accepted or believed Asclepius the god of healing was also Apollo's offspring after his union with Coronis who was daughter of Phlegyas king of the Lapiths While she was pregnant by Apollo Coronis fell in love with Ischys son of Elatus but a crow informed Apollo of the affair Apollo sent his twin sister Artemis to kill Coronis and Artemis carried out he brothers wishes While her body was burning on the funeral pyre Apollo removed the unborn child and took him to Chiron who raised the child Asclepius Apollo also as did his father Zeus fall in love with one of his own gender Hyacinthus a Spartan prince He was very handsome and athletic which inflamed the passions of Apollo One day while Apollo and Hyacinthus were practicing throwing the discus Zephyrus the god of the west wind who was also attracted to the young prince and jealous of Apollo's amorous affection towards the boy made the discus veer off course by blowing an ill wind The discus which Apollo had thrown hit Hyacinthus smashing his skull Apollo rushed to him but he was dead The god was overcome with grief but to immortalize the love he had for the beautiful youth he had a flower grow were his blood had stained the earth Apollo also loved the young boy Cyparissus a descendant of Heracles The impassioned Apollo gave Cyparissus a sacred deer as a love token The young deer became tame and was the constant companion of the boy until a tragic accident occurred As the young deer lay sleeping in the shade of the undergrowth Cyparissus threw his javelin which by chance hit and killed the deer Griefstricken by what had happened Cyparissus wanted to die He asked Apollo to let his tears fall for all eternity With apprehension Apollo transformed the boy into a tree the cypress which became the symbol of sorrow as the sap on its trunk forms droplets like tears Apollo could also be ruthless when he was angered The mortal Niobe boasted to Apollo's mother Leto that she had fourteen children in some versions six or seven which must make her more superior than Leto who had only bore two Apollo greatly angered by this slew her sons and Artemis killed Niobe's daughters Niobe wept so much that she turned into a pillar of stone Apollo was infuriated when the satyr Marsyas challenged Apollo to music contest After winning the competition Apollo had Marsyas flayed alive for being so presumptuous as to challenge a god Apollo was worshiped throughout the Greek world at Delphi every four years they held the Pythian Games in his honor He had many epithets including Pythian Apollo his name at Delphi Apollo Apotropaeus Apollo who averts evil and Apollo Nymphegetes Apollo who looks after the Nymphs As the god of shepherds he also had the cult titles Lukeios from lykos wolf protecting the flocks from wolfs and Nomius of pastures belonging to shepherds Being the god of colonists Apollo influenced his priests at Delphi to give divine guidance as to where the expedition should proceed This was during the height of the colonizing era circa 750550 BCE Apollo's title was Archigetes leader of colonists According to one legend it was Apollo who helped either Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy In art Apollo is at most times depicted as a handsome young man clean shaven and carrying either a lyre or his bow and arrows There are many sculptures of Apollo and one of the most famous is the central figure from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia showing Apollo declaring victory in favor of the Lapiths in their struggle against the Centaurs

thanks support skull

sinisterpurpose — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:50:33 MDT

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thanks 4 add skull

sinisterpurpose — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:50:34 MDT

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