Comic, Familiars, and Some Pagan Stuff
3 months ago
General
I am working on my comic called Styx: Ascent to Justice. This next page I accidentally went overboard and put like 16 panels on it. I am taking it a different direction than I originally was and am basing it on the information I got at Paganicon when I went to a class to learn about familiars. Familiars is a word that was not used until the Salem Witch Trials in a book often referred to as The Witches Hammer. This particular book was used to prosecute, mostly, women. It was a guidebook on how to identify a witch. People who were kind to animals and friendly with them were targeted due to this. That book is where the word comes from.
Now from what I remember of this class it was brought up how did we even get to that point? How did monotheistic practices and evangelism infiltrate and mold people into that? Well! Apparently when trading people who would sail over or whatever would trade food but stopped trading with anyone who did not identify as someone of their religion. Many people, many pagans, would claim christianity or something of the sort so that they could feed their families and generations and generations of this saturating their culture and family they lost their roots. I was thinking of taking it into that direction and perhaps the gods being upset about it, Zeus as a villain, who in my opinion, he is. He treated Hera horribly. Anyways, the more you know.
Now from what I remember of this class it was brought up how did we even get to that point? How did monotheistic practices and evangelism infiltrate and mold people into that? Well! Apparently when trading people who would sail over or whatever would trade food but stopped trading with anyone who did not identify as someone of their religion. Many people, many pagans, would claim christianity or something of the sort so that they could feed their families and generations and generations of this saturating their culture and family they lost their roots. I was thinking of taking it into that direction and perhaps the gods being upset about it, Zeus as a villain, who in my opinion, he is. He treated Hera horribly. Anyways, the more you know.
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