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When Earth and Sky first mated, they were so lost, so overcome with the new ecstasies of creation that they did not take care that their offspring took proper shape. Their resulting spawn, the first beings to stand beneath the sun, were either grotesquely hypertrophied, and called the hecatonchires, or almost pitifully stunted, and called the cyclops. Their existence was painful, and the children resented their parents for their carelessness.The cyclops Brontes blamed his father, the sky, most of all. He beat his clublike arm against his chest in terrible, impotent rage. His defiant strikes still echo in the distant thunder, and the clouds roll fitfully, for his father cannot sleep.
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I found this sketch looking through my large size sketchbook today. I'd forgotten about it. It wasn't dated, but I'm pretty sure it's over a year old.
One of my deities [link] , and a brother to [link] .
Also, I looked up birth defects and deformities as reference for this one...for about a second, before hurriedly closing that tab. There are things that I would rather not see and know about.
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Comments: 18
Zousha [2013-08-10 08:03:34 +0000 UTC]
It is very interesting to see an alternative interpretation of the cyclopes in this way. Β It showcases the grotesqueness that supposedly led to them being bound in Tartarus to begin with.
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Boverisuchus [2012-07-03 08:29:53 +0000 UTC]
My favorite birth defect is a rather harmless one usually, and plays a large part in domestication, the piebalding mutation, which we can thank for holstein cows, blotchy horses, and small children who appear like the human equivalent of cookies and cream.
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Thorrson [2012-05-16 15:30:46 +0000 UTC]
Believe you me, you are not the only one to be absolutely horrified when ALL YOU WANTED WAS A REFERENCE, PLEASE NO MORE NIGHTMARES
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M0AI In reply to Thorrson [2012-05-17 16:13:20 +0000 UTC]
Haha! Yeah, it was pretty bad.:S
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bensen-daniel [2012-05-16 06:29:18 +0000 UTC]
cool. This reminds me of the Kojiki's Hiruko (the Leech Child), who was also born deformed because the primal couple Had Sex Wrong. Although it looks like things worked out for him ([link] (mythology))
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M0AI In reply to bensen-daniel [2012-05-17 16:14:59 +0000 UTC]
Whoa, neat! I didn't know that this idea had some real mythological precedent (though I'm not surprised that it does).
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whalewithlegs [2012-05-15 10:34:29 +0000 UTC]
I think it looks better without the refs anyway .. it looks very earth-born this way. And the soulful eye is very striking :3
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Stephen-0akley [2012-05-13 20:32:09 +0000 UTC]
Awesome, been waiting for more akin to the earthborn! Nice work as always.
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