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As I said before this looks so sacred ❤️ There’s such a touching, reverent energy to this. The scale really brings out how small Ean’tu must feel standing before the remnants of his clan and the loss, but also the peace after the storm… it hits so deep. The fallen torch and the mats with the fire stones give a hint to the life that used to be here. The place has been quiet for a long time. It's a bittersweet remaining piece of an old memory. And I love how the bright color of the flowers contrasts with everything else.

There’s something so redemptory and poetic about him returning here with a human as his mate/wife. It feels like a new beginning for everyone, a new generation that chose a better path of peace. His Alitawe ancestors would smile at him. And it's so sweet that he relies on Ana to support and accompany him through his trauma. Truly beautiful work 🫶🫶

Concept art from the cave wall from the Alitawe village, where everyone who had their coming of age leaves a handprint 💜

This picture is sad tho, coz it shows the first time Ean'tu comes back to his old village. Everything is distroyed and all the good memories he had are overshadowed from his trauma. But this special wall is still intact and he looks up at it and remembers all the people he lost. Family and friends. His brothers and sisters.

The other 2 clans (Yekape and Zeynuma) came here and left some flowers to mourn the many dead Alitawe. They also lost friend and Family with them.

Ean'tu could have never come here without Ana. He was so afraid to come back at the place where the roots of his trauma are laying. Where the Humans raided his home. But he is not alone, he brought his Love Ana with him, coz she gives him hold.

I hope you like my concept and enjoys the artwork 💜

If you don't mind, I'd like to ask some other questions regarding the Keyanga clan. 👉👈

How are the men for the harem chosen? Does the queen handpick them, and is there a mutual agreement? Or are there trials to determine whether they are worthy of being consorts?

What did you base this concept on? Is there any record of polyandry in African regions? Or is this something original?

Hello, of course you can ask always! I am just a bit slower to answer, coz this is a project with @yararts and we work on everything together. 💜

The Queen chooses the men she wants in her Harem. However, each man can decide for himself whether to accept the invitation. There is no punishment for refusing the queen's offer. All the men in her harem have chosen the queen and love her in a truly romantic way. Her first husband, with whom she entered into a lifelong bond, has died. She has no bond with the other men in the traditional sense, yet she loves each and every one of them. The men are also NOT in resentment among themselves. They support each other and all help with the children.

In Angola history, where we also drew a lot of inspiration, especially because Yara knows a lot about it because she is Angolan, it was very common for men to live in polygamy with multiple wives. However, since we have a matriarchy in our clan, meaning only women rule, we reversed the positions. It should also be noted that it is not stipulated that it has to be only men. The reigning queen of the Keyanga is free to choose which people she wants to love and therefore have as part of her harem. The Keyanga are also free to have multiple wives or men. Love, loyalty, and peace are very important to the Keyanga. They are a free, peaceful people with a strong leader.

I would also like to point out that even though we are orienting ourselves towards cultures, not everything is 1:1. We want to give ourselves creative freedom to further explore the fact that the Na'vi are an alien species from a sci-fi fantasy universe and to come up with new exciting things. 💜🥰

I can definitely perceive that from what I have understood until now, and Achilles being the ultimate comparison is both interesting and amusing in some contexts haha

Definitely right on that hahaha and he does indeed And that's great because it makes Odysseus a relatable character to some degree while still making his talents quite outrageous in a good way! He is, his name says it all hahaha (oh boy I remember you telling me that! Quite the theory! 🤣) exactly the poor guy 😂 I meant too good in his skills rather than attitude but yes definitely that too! 😆

Yes, Caleb has his flaws but when it comes to grey areas Odysseus connects a lot to Diego, because Caleb has a very straightforward moral compass hahaha and that is true as well 😆 I got too used to drawing Caleb in his 30es for the main action of our story (and I'm having more and more fun with the silver locks version too 😆), but even that could be considered a "lad" compared to Odysseus I suppose hahaha especially since he gets to settle down yeah!

They have amazing similarities yes 😂 and I love how it didn't even happened on purpose hahaha

Hahahaha don't you love it when characters in the homeric poems go like;

Agamemnon the warrior and king and Menelaus who has loud war cry we have Ajax who is huge and freaking strong we have Nestor the amazing peace maker and diplomat and so on and so forth and while we have kings and mariners hither thither and finally we get Achilles, the one known being fast, best in war, great with spear and sword and somehow surpassing almost everyone at almost everything (usually war related) and a capable musician...

And then we have Odysseus 😂

Like wits that rival the gods, master mariner, expert with the spear and great archer fast and fierce despite his age, ultimate survivor, master of disguise a diplomat and a speaker, hunter, carpenter and builder schemer and actor master tactician and a freaking goddess magnet

Like...Homer my dude...leave some talents for the rest of the crew will ya??

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Concept art by Andy Gaskill and Michael Spooner for Treasure Planet

Herbert Gustave Schmalz - Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra (1888)

Adorable chubby babies 😭❤️

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“Walt Disney described the art of animation as a voyage of discovery into the realms of color, sound and motion. The music from Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird inspires such a voyage.” “And so we conclude this version of Fantasia with a mythical story of life, death and renewal.” - Angela Lansbury

Peter Pan (1953) story sketches by David Hall

Oh gosh so the only one who's body could be retrieved! And the way he died man he is the real legend isn't he? 😆😆 Poor guy tho asking for his burial like that!

Like I said before I really liked the details of Odysseus cutting his hair like that, since it was the only type of mourning he could do for them... And in his situation it's like he is mourning his own freedom as well while still trying to keep a flame of hope to return home to his family 😢

But man the fact that he couldn't retrieve any of the bodies of his fallen friends... And in your recent writing not even from Argos man it hurts 😭

Elpenor might be the only guy in Odysseus's arduous trip that got a decent funeral 🤔

In my fanfiction "Survivor's Guilt Survivor's Duty" I make Odysseus cut his long hair as a funerary tribute to his men and a sign of mourning:

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That was a very common way for ancient Greeks to show mourning and it was mentioned in many literary sources. One of the most infamous examples is Homer's Iliad where Achilles cuts his hair after he kills Hector and places them to the hands of Patroclus in a funerary pyre. The other is Eurypedes "Helen" when Helen cuts her hair and wears black in order to outsmart Theoclymene that she got news from her husband's death

For funerary customs we see generally a combination between burial and cermination depending on the situation. And then it hit me;

Throughout the trip Odysseus lost all his men and crew in most violent ways and the bodies were either consumed by monsters or lost at sea

Elpenor, his comrade that fell off Circe's roof while drunk and later on speaking with Odysseus during his trip in the Underworld, requests a burial and a grave. And this might be the only funeral held by Odysseus during the trip (excluding those who were buried at war).

Odysseus couldn't even give his men funerary rituals! The man just suffered so much! 😭😭😭