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Entry for MangoMendoza 's contest: fav.me/dd2mke6
Task: make a deity and create a mythology around them.

Here there's an attempt with some color if you're interested:

sta.sh/0nxah42i6lw

I decided the the best deity for me was one about total eternal indecision and waste of time.

Anyway, the piece is pretty horrible tbh, 'cause I didn't dedicate it enough time; but I wanted to post it anyway. I did my best with the mythology, which's is pretty long so stop reading now if you're not interested in it. If you are, and have questions after the lecture, feel free to ask.

OREZIA

The youngest talaride ever to acquire the title of deity in the Talarii pantheon, chosen to guard time.

About Orezia becoming a goddess, and about the passing of time

[From History of Creators, Constructs and Creation]
[…] And so it was that O-Febru, the biggest for ingenuity among the Talarii, created time. With his capable and tireless hands, he overcame O-Niniva’s challenge, and created that which didn’t exist, giving it a shape and a size to what has none of them. All the gods congratulated him and drew near to observe the creation throught the shrine glass.
However O-Dirmos, highest father of every construct, saw the power of this new creation, and forsaw the possible dangers. Therefore he, wisely, said that time belongs to Talarii by right, since O-Febru created it, and he also deliberated that time have to be guarded and kept safe, to deeply study its potentiality and limits and not to be used to cause damage or suffering to Talarii or to the rest of Creation. Not all Talarii agreed with O-Dirmos’s words, and, as usual for Talarii, they started discussing if time should be considered a Talarii property or if instead it should be left free into Creation. Terefore it was decided that it was necessarity study more the new creation before any decision about its destiny.
  They then choose a maid named Rezia, who till then had taken care of the little birds which gladden the splendid gardens of Oos. She was young, faithful and trustworthy, that’s why she what choosen to watch over time, so that no one could come near it until Talarii discussion had come to a decision. O-Dirmos was relieved by the choice, because he knew that Rezia was dutiful and in this way time would remain under Talarii custody.
And so O-Rezia took her title. She diligently and silently performed the task given, watching over time just like she did with thee birds, without ever taking her eyes from the shrine, to not disappoint her higher cousins, while the rest of Talarii, relieved to have found such a good guardian, started the big discussion over time, which still persists today, and that has taken the two parts to agree only over the eletion of O-Rezia as guardian of time.

   But only Talarii have infinite patience. E’Maur, annoyeed by the protracting of the discussion, decided to act following his own judgment, sure that time needed to be release fre into Creation, because it was not only of the highests but of everyone and everything, therefore its power was to be equally assigned to all createds and creators. So he snuck where O-Rezia was doing her watch, and she was happy for once to at least have a conversation with someone while, with no interruption, looking at the shrine. If only she had taken her eyes off for just a moment, she could have read E’Maur intentions into his eyes! Instead, before she could stop him, E’Maur stroke with force the glass, sure to have succeeeded in his attempt. But O-Febru’s contructs are made to last, and not even E’Maur, greater between the createds, can alter them that easily. And yet, with his action E’Maur managed to split the shrine and time started to spill outside, in a small but incessant flow.
Horrified with what happened, O-Rezia immediately set up a barrier and that throw E’Maur miles away. But the damage was done.
  The leak of time was pronto felt by creators and createds, and everyone perceived an inexplicable but deep change. In particulair the latecomer constructs were affected by it, and in that group there were the humans who E’Maur loves so much.
Talarii ran straight to O-Rezia to try to remedy what had happened, but to no avail: her barrier keep everything and everyone away. Frantic and helpless, they put their best warrior to protect the barrier against any other attempt to interfere with time, and to prontly warn them in case the barrier had disappeared. After this, many left Oos, disturbed by the touch of time which, even if on the outside have caused very few changes, on the inside had hit something in every one of the Talarii.

O-Rezia, destroyed from having failed her task, isolated herself behind the barrier, away from the rest of Creation, and remained alone watching the flow of time, eternally undecided about what might be the better act for Creation: if to conclude E’Maur work and release all time, or if to repair the damage and imrpison again the construct into the shrine as it was at the beginning.

Orezia worship

[From The Talarii: rituals and celebrations, by S. Kalisperham]
O-Rezia, or Orezia as the common people call her, is counted in the numer of most loved and celebrated gods of all. There is no city in the Sulicide region without at least a sanctuary dedicated to her name, and rarely these are with no person intent on praying. There must always be a statue of Orezia strictly facing backwards, with usually the hands or a veil covering the face, represented watching the flow of time (depicted often with a flow of water or sand that courses without interruption).
Only ecception is the statue in the capital shrine, Mebelia, where the clergy agreed that, once a year, the statue is turned to face the bystanders (however always with its face covered) to give the people the illusion that, for one day, the goddess turns away from her task to listen to worshippers pleas, who beg her to finally make a decision: to release time or to stop its leak (depending on what each of them think it would be the better soluion).
It is not uncommon to spot in the crowd followers of E’Maur cult, who ask for forgiveness to the goddess for what the created did to her, act that he had come to regret with time.
Prayers are often accompanied with flowers and little birds, both dear to the goddess in the hope that they could drawn her attention and make her listen to their requests. It’s not uncommon to see messages and small pieces of paper tied to the birds legs, in the hope they could reach Orezia beyond her barrier, since she, some say inconsciously, let them through the barrier, aslo because sometimes the birds take back to the shrine small fragments of time that didn’t merge with Creation. For this reason, in some groups of the population has taken place the idea that this might solve the time problem, so the give to the birds grain of orzala (since it’s the plant with the biggest grains of all) to be taken to the shrine and fill its fissure, stopping the leak of time.However they’re just worthless suppositions, because no one knows how big is really the damage of the shrine, except for E’Maur (and he has vanished without a trace); also, many say that birds could just eat the grains, therefore the whole thing is simply a wast of time.
Opponents of Orezia worship mock her believers saying that wasting tie is actually the best way to celebrate a goddess that waste time, however the highest between the philosophers affirm that that is indeed the better solution for Orezia worship, since to watch the passing of time is theclosest thing to the actual condition of the goddess herself.

The tale of the two curious and the statue:

Two youngsters, eager to finally see for once the face of Orezia statue in Eeredi shrine, one day they decided to sneak into the temple at nightfall, during one of the rare closing days. Once inside the sanctuary, they approach the statue and go around it to take a look at the visage but, oh! it was all for nothing: because, no matter how much they try, the statues keeps giving them its shoulders. Determined to conclude what they have started, they go around the statue quicker and quicker, trying to gaze its face once for all.
It was only one hour later that a priest finally entered the temple, attarcted by the din coming from within. And there, between all the unsettled birds, he found one of the youngster, with and horrible expression of terror carved upon his face.With difficulty, the priests managed to have a description of what happened: the two had kept going around the statue for what they thought were days, never stopping, and when they fainally reached the statue face, its view threw him in that state; he didn’t remember what he had seen to experience such terror nor he could tell what happened to his friend, and he has not been heard from since.

Expression, figures of speach:
To go Orezia = to waste time, to make time pass
Don’t bother Orezia, don’t look under Orezia’s veil = let go, don’t pass the limit
Orezia! = what a waste (of time)
If it’s Orezia’s will = (if) someone takes a decision

If you've read so far:
- why a deity with human shape: greek,latin and those kind of pantheons choice, meaning that kind of deities that are exactly like human, just super.
- why time: deities are abstracts created by us, to explain something; I wanted to go philosophical with her, but at the end I cut the most of it out from the dscription, didn't want to make it too long, or too boring for the occasional readers
-why when she's worshipped: 'cause deities are well represented only in two occasion, doing what they're known to do/showing off, or when worshipped. Whent with the second option because I thought it would be a better representation (also, all the question they exist throught our prayers and memories (American Gods book anyone?) --> the more linked to humans the better for me, in this case)

Thanks for coming so far, for you how read all of this (:

Art and design by me

Please don't copy or redestribute my work as your own. Thanks. This is not a lineart you can use.

Description
Entry for MangoMendoza 's contest: fav.me/dd2mke6
Task: make a deity and create a mythology around them.

Here there's an attempt with some color if you're interested:

sta.sh/0nxah42i6lw

I decided the the best deity for me was one about total eternal indecision and waste of time.

Anyway, the piece is pretty horrible tbh, 'cause I didn't dedicate it enough time; but I wanted to post it anyway. I did my best with the mythology, which's is pretty long so stop reading now if you're not interested in it. If you are, and have questions after the lecture, feel free to ask.

OREZIA

The youngest talaride ever to acquire the title of deity in the Talarii pantheon, chosen to guard time.

About Orezia becoming a goddess, and about the passing of time

[From History of Creators, Constructs and Creation]
[…] And so it was that O-Febru, the biggest for ingenuity among the Talarii, created time. With his capable and tireless hands, he overcame O-Niniva’s challenge, and created that which didn’t exist, giving it a shape and a size to what has none of them. All the gods congratulated him and drew near to observe the creation throught the shrine glass.
However O-Dirmos, highest father of every construct, saw the power of this new creation, and forsaw the possible dangers. Therefore he, wisely, said that time belongs to Talarii by right, since O-Febru created it, and he also deliberated that time have to be guarded and kept safe, to deeply study its potentiality and limits and not to be used to cause damage or suffering to Talarii or to the rest of Creation. Not all Talarii agreed with O-Dirmos’s words, and, as usual for Talarii, they started discussing if time should be considered a Talarii property or if instead it should be left free into Creation. Terefore it was decided that it was necessarity study more the new creation before any decision about its destiny.
  They then choose a maid named Rezia, who till then had taken care of the little birds which gladden the splendid gardens of Oos. She was young, faithful and trustworthy, that’s why she what choosen to watch over time, so that no one could come near it until Talarii discussion had come to a decision. O-Dirmos was relieved by the choice, because he knew that Rezia was dutiful and in this way time would remain under Talarii custody.
And so O-Rezia took her title. She diligently and silently performed the task given, watching over time just like she did with thee birds, without ever taking her eyes from the shrine, to not disappoint her higher cousins, while the rest of Talarii, relieved to have found such a good guardian, started the big discussion over time, which still persists today, and that has taken the two parts to agree only over the eletion of O-Rezia as guardian of time.

   But only Talarii have infinite patience. E’Maur, annoyeed by the protracting of the discussion, decided to act following his own judgment, sure that time needed to be release fre into Creation, because it was not only of the highests but of everyone and everything, therefore its power was to be equally assigned to all createds and creators. So he snuck where O-Rezia was doing her watch, and she was happy for once to at least have a conversation with someone while, with no interruption, looking at the shrine. If only she had taken her eyes off for just a moment, she could have read E’Maur intentions into his eyes! Instead, before she could stop him, E’Maur stroke with force the glass, sure to have succeeeded in his attempt. But O-Febru’s contructs are made to last, and not even E’Maur, greater between the createds, can alter them that easily. And yet, with his action E’Maur managed to split the shrine and time started to spill outside, in a small but incessant flow.
Horrified with what happened, O-Rezia immediately set up a barrier and that throw E’Maur miles away. But the damage was done.
  The leak of time was pronto felt by creators and createds, and everyone perceived an inexplicable but deep change. In particulair the latecomer constructs were affected by it, and in that group there were the humans who E’Maur loves so much.
Talarii ran straight to O-Rezia to try to remedy what had happened, but to no avail: her barrier keep everything and everyone away. Frantic and helpless, they put their best warrior to protect the barrier against any other attempt to interfere with time, and to prontly warn them in case the barrier had disappeared. After this, many left Oos, disturbed by the touch of time which, even if on the outside have caused very few changes, on the inside had hit something in every one of the Talarii.

O-Rezia, destroyed from having failed her task, isolated herself behind the barrier, away from the rest of Creation, and remained alone watching the flow of time, eternally undecided about what might be the better act for Creation: if to conclude E’Maur work and release all time, or if to repair the damage and imrpison again the construct into the shrine as it was at the beginning.

Orezia worship

[From The Talarii: rituals and celebrations, by S. Kalisperham]
O-Rezia, or Orezia as the common people call her, is counted in the numer of most loved and celebrated gods of all. There is no city in the Sulicide region without at least a sanctuary dedicated to her name, and rarely these are with no person intent on praying. There must always be a statue of Orezia strictly facing backwards, with usually the hands or a veil covering the face, represented watching the flow of time (depicted often with a flow of water or sand that courses without interruption).
Only ecception is the statue in the capital shrine, Mebelia, where the clergy agreed that, once a year, the statue is turned to face the bystanders (however always with its face covered) to give the people the illusion that, for one day, the goddess turns away from her task to listen to worshippers pleas, who beg her to finally make a decision: to release time or to stop its leak (depending on what each of them think it would be the better soluion).
It is not uncommon to spot in the crowd followers of E’Maur cult, who ask for forgiveness to the goddess for what the created did to her, act that he had come to regret with time.
Prayers are often accompanied with flowers and little birds, both dear to the goddess in the hope that they could drawn her attention and make her listen to their requests. It’s not uncommon to see messages and small pieces of paper tied to the birds legs, in the hope they could reach Orezia beyond her barrier, since she, some say inconsciously, let them through the barrier, aslo because sometimes the birds take back to the shrine small fragments of time that didn’t merge with Creation. For this reason, in some groups of the population has taken place the idea that this might solve the time problem, so the give to the birds grain of orzala (since it’s the plant with the biggest grains of all) to be taken to the shrine and fill its fissure, stopping the leak of time.However they’re just worthless suppositions, because no one knows how big is really the damage of the shrine, except for E’Maur (and he has vanished without a trace); also, many say that birds could just eat the grains, therefore the whole thing is simply a wast of time.
Opponents of Orezia worship mock her believers saying that wasting tie is actually the best way to celebrate a goddess that waste time, however the highest between the philosophers affirm that that is indeed the better solution for Orezia worship, since to watch the passing of time is theclosest thing to the actual condition of the goddess herself.

The tale of the two curious and the statue:

Two youngsters, eager to finally see for once the face of Orezia statue in Eeredi shrine, one day they decided to sneak into the temple at nightfall, during one of the rare closing days. Once inside the sanctuary, they approach the statue and go around it to take a look at the visage but, oh! it was all for nothing: because, no matter how much they try, the statues keeps giving them its shoulders. Determined to conclude what they have started, they go around the statue quicker and quicker, trying to gaze its face once for all.
It was only one hour later that a priest finally entered the temple, attarcted by the din coming from within. And there, between all the unsettled birds, he found one of the youngster, with and horrible expression of terror carved upon his face.With difficulty, the priests managed to have a description of what happened: the two had kept going around the statue for what they thought were days, never stopping, and when they fainally reached the statue face, its view threw him in that state; he didn’t remember what he had seen to experience such terror nor he could tell what happened to his friend, and he has not been heard from since.

Expression, figures of speach:
To go Orezia = to waste time, to make time pass
Don’t bother Orezia, don’t look under Orezia’s veil = let go, don’t pass the limit
Orezia! = what a waste (of time)
If it’s Orezia’s will = (if) someone takes a decision

If you've read so far:
- why a deity with human shape: greek,latin and those kind of pantheons choice, meaning that kind of deities that are exactly like human, just super.
- why time: deities are abstracts created by us, to explain something; I wanted to go philosophical with her, but at the end I cut the most of it out from the dscription, didn't want to make it too long, or too boring for the occasional readers
-why when she's worshipped: 'cause deities are well represented only in two occasion, doing what they're known to do/showing off, or when worshipped. Whent with the second option because I thought it would be a better representation (also, all the question they exist throught our prayers and memories (American Gods book anyone?) --> the more linked to humans the better for me, in this case)

Thanks for coming so far, for you how read all of this (:

Art and design by me

Please don't copy or redestribute my work as your own. Thanks. This is not a lineart you can use.