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Amazing work, love her clothing and the lotus flowers in the background, stunning!
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you're so welcome!!! 
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Your wonderful art is featured in my journal [link]
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Very beautiful. I am going to do a piece involving the Samarhan soon. I'll keep you in the loop on its progress. I think you would appreciate it, esp. considerimg the mythic women you have been doing. It has been really inspiring to me. Very nice work.
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Thank you, but what is the Samarhan?
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Samarhan, pronounced Shamarhan, is a Turkish (Anatolian) myth about a serpent woman like the Medusa, but without snakes in her hair. She grants healing. There is a male version of this myth, as well.
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I didn't know her.
Is she look like Lamia in Greek myth?
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Yes, in a way. I did a sketch of her I will post here in the next couple of days. Keep a look out and I will also put a link here to some traditional images and a cool movie about her.
Video-very cool, but in Turkish. A beautiful story, but it helps to know some of the story to understand this:
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Traditional Images:
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History:
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A variant from a poem:
Shahmaran is presented as the only creature that possesses the crucial knowledge needed to reach the hiding-place of the legendary ring symbolizing immortality, strength, power, and wisdom that was worn by King Solomon. The key is an herb: if a person applies the herb to his feet, he will be able to walk on water and thus reach the otherwise inaccessible island of King Solomon where the ring is hidden. Shahmaran knows he must keep this information secret because human beings are selfish and greedy and can cope with neither immortality nor with infinite power and wisdom: for the ring to fall into human hands would be a disaster for all mankind. In the effort to protect this secret, Shahmaran dies. But though men are deprived of their hopes of immortality and infinite power and wisdom, they still continue to dream of it.
Most of the stories are about the male Sahmaran, but the female is also a myth of Turkey, actually, one that is prevalent in most of the asiatic/indo-european world. Here is the female sahmaran's story. Mind the grammar errors
According to myth, Sahmaran who is the Queen of snakes live under the tunnels of Istanbul where is suitable geographically for her and one day a Bey (turkish title
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Eloquent capture of the goddess. I was reading so much on the Hindu deities at one point it was insane; a LOT of mythos in there. You even tied the lotus theme in there too; awesome.
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Oh you read them! She is different in detail in orthodox Hindu style.
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Yep that's very much true, but what's an artist if they don't take liberties on the source material?!? I tell 'ya what! An...artist still xD. But it's cool. I'd love to see more of these from you, especially since I'm gonna be reading up on it again, and probably some Chinese mythology as well. Mythology is fun.
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Thank you. I'll update some day.
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Cool, looking forward to it. See you later.
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So are you doing a goddess set right now?
It is pretty awesome so far!
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They are painted for a book about world's gods and goddesses.
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When is it coming out?
I want to but it!
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It was released.
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Yeah, she is vivid color than always.
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