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Description
2017
Digital (Adobe Photoshop)

This is Shoshanna, the animated equivalent of Lilia from Ten Commandments (played by Debra Paget). In the latter film, she starts out as a comely water girl, and stonecutter Joshua's beloved. After being lusted after by Vincent Price's slimy overseer, Baka, she becomes a house slave, eventually ending up in the custody of corrupt Hebrew Dathan (played by Edward G. Robinson). Though not the most 'feminist-friendly' portrayal in film (neither was Nefretiri, but at least she knew how to work it!), she was a cutie.

My incarnation is significantly younger than her live action counterpart (about 12-13 in the first half of the movie), and keeps those in the mud pits hydrated and hopeful. But, when she becomes a house slave to save her brother from death, she is forced to survive and adapt. When Joshua returns from the copper mines--and at the right hand of Moses--she is bewildered, as she believed him dead (much like Rameses did with Moses), but finds her hope renewed.

This is her after the timeskip, around her early 30's (I think there's at least a good 20 years before Moses returns to Egypt). Her costume is partially/accidentally inspired by Nicole Kidman's headdress in Moulin Rouge!

(Fun fact: 'Shoshanna' is a Hebrew derivative of Susanna, itself derived from the Hebrew 'shoshan,' meaning 'lily,' or 'lotus.' A little on the nose, but I think it fits.)

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Texture: akinna-stock.deviantart.com/ar…

Character Models/Inspiration: Lilia (The Ten Commandments, 1956) | Baby Doll (Sucker Punch, 2011), Sansa Stark (A song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones)

Description
2017
Digital (Adobe Photoshop)

This is Shoshanna, the animated equivalent of Lilia from Ten Commandments (played by Debra Paget). In the latter film, she starts out as a comely water girl, and stonecutter Joshua's beloved. After being lusted after by Vincent Price's slimy overseer, Baka, she becomes a house slave, eventually ending up in the custody of corrupt Hebrew Dathan (played by Edward G. Robinson). Though not the most 'feminist-friendly' portrayal in film (neither was Nefretiri, but at least she knew how to work it!), she was a cutie.

My incarnation is significantly younger than her live action counterpart (about 12-13 in the first half of the movie), and keeps those in the mud pits hydrated and hopeful. But, when she becomes a house slave to save her brother from death, she is forced to survive and adapt. When Joshua returns from the copper mines--and at the right hand of Moses--she is bewildered, as she believed him dead (much like Rameses did with Moses), but finds her hope renewed.

This is her after the timeskip, around her early 30's (I think there's at least a good 20 years before Moses returns to Egypt). Her costume is partially/accidentally inspired by Nicole Kidman's headdress in Moulin Rouge!

(Fun fact: 'Shoshanna' is a Hebrew derivative of Susanna, itself derived from the Hebrew 'shoshan,' meaning 'lily,' or 'lotus.' A little on the nose, but I think it fits.)

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Texture: akinna-stock.deviantart.com/ar…

Character Models/Inspiration: Lilia (The Ten Commandments, 1956) | Baby Doll (Sucker Punch, 2011), Sansa Stark (A song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones)