Ziggetai - Veil Of The Gods

Inspiration.

Night Snow at Kanbara from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series, Utagawa Hiroshige, circa 1834

Woodblock print 8 ⅞ x 13 ⅞ in. (22.6 x 35.3 cm)

Whipjack Thraw the Cacodaemon.

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Countless ages ago a disgruntled Cacodaemon retreated from the world to seek refuge deep in his underground lair. And there he would have remained, at peace, far from the squabbling masses of humans who had crowded him out, but for the appearance of a certain Mahjee who was looking to make a name for himself.

This Mahjee worked a Mahjuti Meta-Glyph on Whipjack that bound him within a space-time bubble. In other words, he doomed the Daemon to repeat the same 30 seconds or so of his life over and over, endlessly into eternity. Without respite.

The trap took Whipjack completely by surprise. He’d just finished a poetic warning to the Mahjee that Cacodaemons are immortal and that no Mahjuti tricks could harm him, when a series of glowing Glyphs appeared before his eyes. The ancient daemon, who long ago had proved he was invincible, found himself cocooned in a veil of shimmering sky-blue light. And that was that. He was trapped.

Mahjuti

Veil of the Gods features a magical system based on the ideas of Austin Osman Spare- a well-known 20th century artist and all round weirdo. He played with ancient and medieval ideas of magic especially the Norse magical tradition of Galdr. At a young age he came up with his own system based on graphics to empower his spells. He called these graphics sigils. I’ve developed his ideas much further for the storyline of Veil of the Gods. I call the symbolic designs glyphs rather than sigils and I’ve named the system of magic in Veil of the Gods- Mahjuti. Here’s one of the Hyper-Glyphs that feature in the coming chapters.

Inspiration.

Kasamatsu Shiro

"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.

Woodblock Print

Red

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Playing with low key lighting techniques.

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Inspiration.

川瀬巴水　鎌倉八幡宮

Inspiration.

Kawase Hasui (1883 – 1957) Snow at Shiba Gate (1936)