I found the pictures! They're from @HannahEBeachler on Twitter!
That's INSANE omg writing that all down as research notes! Gonna pop up in a story somewhere!
The second chapter of "El Dios de la Brisa" will be out tomorrow! 💙
Thank you so much to everyone that read the first chapter, you've all been so generous and kind! Hopefully you will like the second chapter as well! :)
L'iik'ik Talokan!
The set build. Over 300 hand carved, stalagmites and stalactites. The entire set was carved. The Feathered Serpent.
Art Director: Jason Clark
This set inspired by the Ceiba tree, sacred tree of life and the three realms, which Namor occupied all, like Chaac guardian of the underworld. The story of Chaac is intricate, a beneficent entity related to agriculture production and to life.
As much love and thought to Talokan as to Wakanda, this...is just the beginning of this new world.
Namor's throne seat. A Magalodon jaw with Jade Teeth. The Hieroglyph carved in the bone reads, "This Jade Tooth Bites." I thought it was charming and dangerous like Namor. The piece was 12 feet tall by 10 feet wide. It was BIG!
The feathered serpent. From El templo, the Temple of Kukulcán. aka El Castillo, Chichen Itza. The temple has 91 steps on each side and including the platform is 365. Master Engineers, it would be pre-columbian Maya.
We wanted to have the Feathered serpents presence in Namor's place of peace and remembrance. You would not have seen it in the film but it was important for me that its presence was felt.
My motto, as little CGI as possible. I fought and pushed to build build build! Wherever possible, it's a set.
- Hannah Beachler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Production Designer, Academy Award Winner
Here's a recent commission for a Wakanda Forever castmember, featuring Talocan warriors and Namor!
okay marvel stop playing and give this man his own movie
2025 Goal: Get back into writing because I miss it so much 🥺
Please send me any requests for characters that you may have. I need all the inspiration I can gather!
The actor told us about a word play that only Maya speakers can understand. ---spoiler ahead--- “There is a phrase that Namor says that I had to translate that goes: 'Máansa'ab u nej miis tin wich' which in Spanish literally means 'They passed the cat's tail in front of my face with the hope of an alliance'. If you see cats, jaguars or panthers wag their tails when they go hunting because it is a way of hypnotizing their prey, so that image is what happened to Namor, that someone did that to him with their tail. I proposed it to the director and he loved it, because it refers to the panther that warned Namor, ” he said. Josué Maychi told us that in English the phrase was translated as: "I was blinded with the hope of an alliance", which in Maya metaphorically means that someone was deceived, since in Spanish or English it is not literal.
Compillation of Namor's lines in Yucatec Mayan In the interview for Cultura Colectiva, Josué Maychi, who plays the shaman in Black Panther : Wakanda Forever, spoke about his experience in the film in which at the same time, he collaborated as the Yucatec Maya coach for Mabel Cadena and Tenoch Huerta, every day for a period of seven months. “No one knew anything about Maya and my first approach with the actors was to ask them if they could pronounce the consonants and sounds that do not exist in Spanish, English or other languages, and I was very happy to discover that they could pronounce them” he commented.
How was the process of teaching Maya? “We had sessions by Zoom and then in Atlantla we had scheduled meetings because I needed to listen to them. The first thing I taught them was the sound of the words, because in Maya there are five types of vowels that have to do with time, and if if they prolongued (a vowel) it can mean one thing or another. I asked them to imagine their lines as a melody and also gave them recorded audios to listen to, read and even write. For example, Mabel created her own way of writing, she created her own writing to have a personal approach to the language, ” he said.
Do you remember any funny anecdote? “There is a phrase that we say in the film that is Líik’ik Talokan, (there's Wakanda Forever) which is said by the people of Wakanda. Once, Álex Livinalli wrote to me and asked what we could say for the world we were creating, about the new universe and in Maya. I thought about it and thought it might be that phrase, which means something like 'Long live Talokan' or 'Rise Talokan'. I proposed it to them, they proposed it to the production, they loved it and it was integrated into the script, ” he said. Finally, the actor pointed out that the representation of indigenous languages IS very important to him and mentioned that there are Mayan people who have proudly written him messages of gratitude, since they understood what they saw on the big screen.
no thoughts just this 😵💫
hi!!! dropping by to tell you i really, really love your namor fic!!! and i love how much research and effort you put into it ;-; your writing is really on another level and i'm so into this fic so please don't stop writing!! you're really an amazing writer!!! <3
Hello, lovely!!!
Truly from the bottom of my heart <3 thank you for your message! I am so excited to share all of the ideas I've come up with and researched with all of you!
I've been slowly but surely writing whenever I have free time and I think I am going to start posting little one shots until I can fully finish chapter 3! Thank you for reaching out, it really motivates me to continue writing! I'm always down to discuss Namor and the MCU any time!
Thank you for your support as well!
I hope you have a great day!
▪︎L'iik'ik Talokan!
El dios de la brisa is so good! I love your writing, you don’t rush into it
Are you currently working in chapter 3?
Hello, lovely!
I am definitely currently working on Chapter 3! The outline is complete, my research is done for a couple of things I will be adding, and I think I have the first 2,000 words done!
Work is the reason it's taken a bit longer than I'd like to have more chapters out but it should be out by next Monday 💙
(I also have a couple of One Shots I'm working on)
Thank you for enjoying the story and I hope you continue to like the next installments! 💙
▪︎L'iik'ik Talokan!
Hello, my friends! I've started writing again after far too long and my current muse? Namor of Talokan! (She/Her) (🇵🇷)
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