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Another interpretation of Batak mythology which depicts the messenger of the God of the Underworld, Pane na Bolon (an underworld dragon which supposedly causes all the earthquakes in Sumatra when it moves about in the underworld). The messenger is known as the gitapgitap serpent, and I based it upon one of the magic circles which depicted the Underworld God and tried to imagine a lesser being based on its very simple symbolic form (sta.sh/021uteckyd7k ).

The characters challenging the underworld messenger (from left to right) are:
First - Puah, the Datu character design I showed some months ago (fav.me/dbmuelx )

Second - A legendary adventurer who apparently was born with only one leg and one arm and travelled (despite his disabilities) all the way to the highest realm of the upperworld to ask the Creator God Mula Djadi na Bolon why he was born in such an incomplete state. He had a name in the book I read in the library but I forgot it so I will have to go back and check. Anyway, when I read that folk tale I immediately thought: Man, this guy is really super cool - if he can survive travelling across the war ridden lands of Northern Sumatra, and even climb the highest mountain and reach the realm of the deities and be able to fend off all the dangers in the way even though he only has one leg and one arm - he must be extremely badass and must have worked insanely hard to achieve that feat. So I thought that having travelled to the high heavens and spoken to the Creator Himself, he must be an exceedingly accomplished adventurer and probably obtained a lot of rare relics that enabled him to go this far... And the only other thing left for him to do as a traveller would be to explore the underworld.. I will probably try to do a character design of him later ;w ;

EDIT: The adventurer's name is Si Adji Sambola, who apparently climbed the High Rock Nanggar Djati which was connected with the World Tree leading to the upperworld.

Third - Korbosa, the wooden man, also introduced before in one of my monochrome character design sheets.

The magic square cast by Puah on the floor is also based on one of the ceremonial squares used in Batak rituals. Normally, the centre of the square would depict the specific tools used in the ceremony, but it is still not known what its true meaning is. Right now it shows the relic scimitar of the legendary adventurer - which explains why he is able to effortlessly parry the vicious clawing of the choleric serpent with swift maneuvers of his crimson blade.

Description
Another interpretation of Batak mythology which depicts the messenger of the God of the Underworld, Pane na Bolon (an underworld dragon which supposedly causes all the earthquakes in Sumatra when it moves about in the underworld). The messenger is known as the gitapgitap serpent, and I based it upon one of the magic circles which depicted the Underworld God and tried to imagine a lesser being based on its very simple symbolic form (sta.sh/021uteckyd7k ).

The characters challenging the underworld messenger (from left to right) are:
First - Puah, the Datu character design I showed some months ago (fav.me/dbmuelx )

Second - A legendary adventurer who apparently was born with only one leg and one arm and travelled (despite his disabilities) all the way to the highest realm of the upperworld to ask the Creator God Mula Djadi na Bolon why he was born in such an incomplete state. He had a name in the book I read in the library but I forgot it so I will have to go back and check. Anyway, when I read that folk tale I immediately thought: Man, this guy is really super cool - if he can survive travelling across the war ridden lands of Northern Sumatra, and even climb the highest mountain and reach the realm of the deities and be able to fend off all the dangers in the way even though he only has one leg and one arm - he must be extremely badass and must have worked insanely hard to achieve that feat. So I thought that having travelled to the high heavens and spoken to the Creator Himself, he must be an exceedingly accomplished adventurer and probably obtained a lot of rare relics that enabled him to go this far... And the only other thing left for him to do as a traveller would be to explore the underworld.. I will probably try to do a character design of him later ;w ;

EDIT: The adventurer's name is Si Adji Sambola, who apparently climbed the High Rock Nanggar Djati which was connected with the World Tree leading to the upperworld.

Third - Korbosa, the wooden man, also introduced before in one of my monochrome character design sheets.

The magic square cast by Puah on the floor is also based on one of the ceremonial squares used in Batak rituals. Normally, the centre of the square would depict the specific tools used in the ceremony, but it is still not known what its true meaning is. Right now it shows the relic scimitar of the legendary adventurer - which explains why he is able to effortlessly parry the vicious clawing of the choleric serpent with swift maneuvers of his crimson blade.