Amenti

I'm Amenti and I draw brunettes from the Bronze Age

En la cuenta de la editorial digo que nos hace suspirar, pero en mi cuenta personal voy a confesar que GARFIO NOS PRENDE.

Hay una ilustración gente, una ilustración concreta en el libro que uff. UFFF.

En fin, mañana noticiones sobre Peter Darling >:)

I'm gonna share a little bit of lore about this OC bc this interaction has made me laugh: Abd-Ashtart is written to be the first lover with which Aphrodite cheated on Hephaestus

Pérez-Reverte:
- Gran novelista (según él)
- Multipremiado
- Académico de la lengua
- Todos sus personajes hablan exactamente igual que Pérez-Reverte

Tamsyn Muir:
- Empezó en AO3, pf
- Fantasía espacial
- Eso no es literatura ni es nada
- Se reconoce a los personajes solo con una línea de diálogo

Colored photo of Aphrodite, Adonis and Eros group sculpture, mine, from the Sofia Archaeological Museum.

Another Phoenician god that entered the Greek mythology was her lover, Adonis, that is told to be a mortal Syrian man in Greek myths, and corresponds with the Semitic theonym Adon, "Lord", that is present in the alternative Hebrew name for the Abrahamic God, "Adonay".

Colored photo of Aphrodite figurine.

Colored photo of Aphrodite figurine, mine, from the Sofia Archaeological Museum.

The Cypriot Aphrodite, as Cyprus had heavy Phoenician cultural influence. So Ashtart entered the Greek pantheon two times: one as Aphrodite and another as the minor goddess Astarte.

Colored photo of Ashtart figurine.

Colored photo of Ashtart figurine.

Colored photo of Ashtart figurine.

And Ashtart, or in Greek "Astarte", is maybe the most popular goddess of the Phoenician pantheon. She's equivalent with the Hebrew Asherah and the Eastern Semitic Ishtar, and she's though to be the precursor of another goddess of the Aegean:

He's called Abd-Ashtart, a name bore by Phoenician kings that means "servant of Ashtart". It shares an etymological root with the modern Arabic name Abdullah, "servant of God".

Colored photo of two Aamu men in the Book of Gates, as depicted in the walls of the Tomb of Sety I.

Modern rendition of the last photo.

Aamu glazed steatite head, also from Egyptian art.

Thus, this archaic Phoenician pilot is styled following the depiction of an Aamu man in the Egyptian Book of Gates.

Modern rendition of "Aamu" in hieroglyphic script, from right to left.

Photos of "Aamu" in hieroglyphic and demotic script, from left to right.

By Ancient Egyptians, their Semitic neighbors, amongst which the Phoenicians were the most famous ones, were collectively called Aamu, that's often translated as "Western Asiatics".

Later rendition of an ancient Greek map of Iberia, that shows the Cassiterides above Gallaecia.

Modern map theorizing about the real inspiration of the Cassiterides.

A legendary archipelago that supposedly produced the tin that was traded all across the Mediterranean, essential for the production of bronze. The Cassiterides Islands are though to correspond with real Atlantic centers of production of tin, such as Galicia or the British Isles.

Modern map of the Phoenician world of cultural influence and trade routes.

The Phoenicians founded colonies in such northern places as Galicia and visited such southern places as maybe Cape Verde. Their commercial influence reached the British Isles and the Greeks and Romans attributed to them the discovery of the Cassiterides Islands:

Modern rendition of the Phoenician alphabet.

Black and white frontal photo of the Phoenician amphibolite sarcophagus of king Eshmunazar II of Sidon, with a Phoenician inscription on it.

Amongst them: olive cultivation, square plan houses, the potters wheel, the breeding of chickens and the alphabet that propelled the Greek and Latin ones, but also many others that were to be used in Europe and beyond, like Cyrillic, Arabic, Runic, Hebrew, Tifinagh or Amharic.

They also coined names such as Hispania (Ishphanim, "land of rabbits" or "land of hyraxes") and Ibiza (Ibosim, "land of [the god] Bes") and introduced a lot of innovations in Europe.

The Phoenicians gave name to the continent of Europe (as collected in the Greek myth of the Phoenician princess Europa) and founded one of its most ancient cities, Cádiz, in modern-day Andalusia, with the name of Gadir.

Modern map of the Carthaginian empire.

Carthage is where the Phoenician colonizers and the Libyan Indigenous peoples forged another Mediterranean empire, the Carthaginian one.

The Phoenicians navigated all across the Mediterranean Sea and made incursions in the Atlantic Ocean, founding numerous colonies through their coasts. Maybe the most important one was Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia.

The second of those cities, Gubla, was called Byblos in Greek and its name is the origin of the word "Bible", which means "papyri", "books", because it is though that the first Bible was produced there.

Photo of a man with a Tyrian purple dyed cape and the mollusc from which it's recollected.

This made the Greeks call Canaanites "Phoenicians", a word derived from "phoinix", "purple" in Greek, also because they supposedly used it to dye their hair and beards.

Modern map of Phoenicia

They called themselves Canaanites and their civilization, Canaan, included important city-states such as Tyre and Gubla. The luxurious Tyrian purple dye came from Tyre and was traded all across the Mediterranean.

Abd-Ashtart is the typical Phoenician pilot, as every Mediterranean adventure must have one. The Phoenicians or Canaanites were an ancient Semitic people from the region of modern-day Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.

El discurso de "hay que reorientar el turismo hacia cosas culturales" está muy bien y es muy bonito, pero el tema es que al 90% de los turistas tus cosas culturales no les interesan un culo. Solo quieren playas, hoteles gigantes y sentir que alguien les sirve, preferiblemente más morenito que ellos.

Creo que una de las cosas que más me enternecen de la relación entre Dunk y Egg es que sí, Dunk aprendió muchísimo de ser Arlan y es su modelo en mucho de lo que hace: pero cuando se trata de Egg solo replica lo bueno, obvia lo malo. Nunca, por ejemplo, usa castigos físicos con él.

His name is Abd-Ashtart, he has purple hair and pronouns. It's Abdastartus for the Greeks and Abdou for the chicks.

I've always had an itch for drawing comics. The only one I've shown on the internet so far was a short strip from two years ago (that I'll attach in the next tweet). So I've got into it again with a few pages long comic. This is the first one in plain colors

Que parece que el feminismo fuera una cosa nueva, moderna, y lo es en tanto a que es la forma contemporánea que ha adoptado una reivindicación vieja, moldeada por las circunstancias sociales, culturales y económicas en que se ha enmarcardo y enmarca.

Esto lo escribió André el Capellan en su tratado sobre el amor allá por el siglo XII y a día de hoy, en el año de nuestro señor 2026 seguimos intentando que penetre en la sesera de algunos.

Y no todo lo que escribe André me encanta, es más conservador que su mecenas, María de Francia, pero oye.

Vengo a pediros ayuda. La mujer que os voy a poner aquí fue encontrada muerta dentro de una maleta en 2023, enterrada en una finca de Benahavís (Málaga). Tenía unos 40 años, era de origen europeo, ojos marrones y pelo castaño o marrón oscuro. Tuvo al menos un hijo. Está sin identificar. Ayuda.

Yo quiero mucho a Ne y le haría promo aunque fuese una patata, pero es que encima me tiene enganchada como una cabrona a sus cómics