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A more refined version of the "meat-suited" engineer/priest depicted in ([link] ). All the pertinent background exposition is available in the description there, so I won't bother repeating myself. I envisioned the suit as a queasy hybrid of entrails, muscle tissue, and blood vessels, covered over with a sleek epidermis broken only by heart-valve-like respiratory orifices. The tubes feeding into the nostrils both filter air and provide the necessary cocktail of psychoactive chemicals facilitating the trance state that enables the hyperspatial/etheric interface necessary for the priest to perform his engineering function. A hermetically sealed and self-sustaining version of this symbiotic suit/organism will later serve as a bioengineered spacesuit during the galactic expansionist phase of the Bioaztech Empire ([link] ).

This concept could very easily represent Overculture ([link] ) technology. This same civilization might also be responsible for the Ceremonial Creatures ([link] [link] ), and could be a New World offshoot of the culture that produced the Sphinx ([link] ) and Mandricore ([link] ). (Proto- or Post-Atlanteans?)

I probably could have polished this one up more, but I was afraid of overworking it and losing some of the detail. It's pretty flat, I know. If you'd prefer to interpret it as a sculpture or decorative frieze that's absolutely fine with me.

Please see also this guy:
[link]
His work captures a certain techno-Mesoamerican aesthetic vibe I've long strived for, probably better than I ever will.

EDIT: I finally figured out that most of what I didn't like about this drawing was on the left side, so I copied the right side and mirrored it symmetrically about the central (vertical) long axis. I moved the original version to my Scrapbook for comparison ([link] ). Please let me know which version you prefer; if there's a strong preference for the original, I may move it back.

UPDATE:
Side-by-side comparison of three different variants: [link]

Description
A more refined version of the "meat-suited" engineer/priest depicted in ([link] ). All the pertinent background exposition is available in the description there, so I won't bother repeating myself. I envisioned the suit as a queasy hybrid of entrails, muscle tissue, and blood vessels, covered over with a sleek epidermis broken only by heart-valve-like respiratory orifices. The tubes feeding into the nostrils both filter air and provide the necessary cocktail of psychoactive chemicals facilitating the trance state that enables the hyperspatial/etheric interface necessary for the priest to perform his engineering function. A hermetically sealed and self-sustaining version of this symbiotic suit/organism will later serve as a bioengineered spacesuit during the galactic expansionist phase of the Bioaztech Empire ([link] ).

This concept could very easily represent Overculture ([link] ) technology. This same civilization might also be responsible for the Ceremonial Creatures ([link] [link] ), and could be a New World offshoot of the culture that produced the Sphinx ([link] ) and Mandricore ([link] ). (Proto- or Post-Atlanteans?)

I probably could have polished this one up more, but I was afraid of overworking it and losing some of the detail. It's pretty flat, I know. If you'd prefer to interpret it as a sculpture or decorative frieze that's absolutely fine with me.

Please see also this guy:
[link]
His work captures a certain techno-Mesoamerican aesthetic vibe I've long strived for, probably better than I ever will.

EDIT: I finally figured out that most of what I didn't like about this drawing was on the left side, so I copied the right side and mirrored it symmetrically about the central (vertical) long axis. I moved the original version to my Scrapbook for comparison ([link] ). Please let me know which version you prefer; if there's a strong preference for the original, I may move it back.

UPDATE:
Side-by-side comparison of three different variants: [link]