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Published: 2015-06-06 11:17:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1210; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 7
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... Eating my wings to make me tame.Yeah, no idea for a title >w<
I'm in Girlycard mood today
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Nostalgic! *-*
Love the dark way youΒ painted him! Absolutely amazing! <3
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Hehe, thanks ! Even if it's not my best drawing of him XDDDD
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You are very welcome.
I think it's an amazing concept you brought up with this drawing, the whole idea.. colors and that wicked look even if he is in his cute child form. ^^ <3
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Yes I know TwT
I promise it will be better next time >w<
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Better? It's absolutely awesome right now!
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Um, yeah. The majority of really good Hellsing fanart Β (or the stuff that fills my gallery, anyway) is done in this art style.
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>w< Thanks ! I tried TwT
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More like succeeded!
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And when I said lines, I meant as in Girlycard has awesome quotes in the OVA. Looking back on this conversation, you seem to think I was referring to the linework on this piece.
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Oh, it's no trouble. It allowed me to reassure you how awesome your art is.
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you're welcome, again
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Hey I tried TwT
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it came out pretty friggin wicked!
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In the sea without lees
Standeth the bird of Hermes
Eating his wings variable
And maketh himself yet full stable
When all his feathers be from him gone
He standeth still here as a stone
Here is now both white and red
And all so the stone to quicken the dead
All and some without fable
Both hard and soft and malleable
Understand now well and right
And thank you God of this sight
The bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame.
The Red Sea. The Red Sol. The Red Elixir Vitae.
Red Stone. White Stone. Elixir Vitae. Luna in Crescent.
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I've always wondered, is Bird of Hermes a reference to something, or one of Hirano's original ideas?
Leading off of that, did you write that awesome poem?
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Nah, the entire Bird of Hermes thing is actually an excerpt from this Alchemist poem during the age of Vlad the Impaler about the Philosopher's Stone.
To understand it better, allow me to quote a guy from Reddit:
"The Bird of Hermes" may very well represent Thoth, the Egyptian semi-equivalent to the Greek Hermes. Thoth is the God of science and philosophy. In some illuminated versions of the text Ripley shows the bird as balancing a crescent moon above him, as did Thoth. Conversely, other illuminations give the bird a human head and a crown, possibly signifying Christ. The representation of Christ as a bird is long held. The Phoenix is a classical representation of Christ (it has been for over a thousand years, at least) largely owing to the Death/Rebirth notion implicit in the creature, and also possibly referencing an apocryphal tale of Christ as a child bringing life back to a dead goldthrush. Christ also ties to the notion of self-sacrifice. Perhaps the passage is pagan, and perhaps the passage is Christian.
Air elementals and birds signify high thought and philosophy, while earthen creatures, earth, and stone represent baser things. Perhaps the bird eating its wings to stabilize into a stone (the Philosopher's stone) would be to suggest that we must sacrifice our high-held philosophy and live a baser, simpler life.
There's a million ways to interpret Ripley's intentions. It is indeed one of the challenges of understanding alchemical texts. They are enormously challenging to read.
In the case of Alucard... My only guess would be that his choice of the passage (if indeed he wrote it himself) signifies that he sacrifices the full extents of his power in order to have a greater level of control and maintain a physical body.
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I feel genuinely enlightened and enriched. Thank you.
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No worries. I take the history of Alchemy very seriously.
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I'm doin fine, just glad that I'm free from all the assignments and stuff. Graduating in exactly a week!
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