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Published: 2018-03-27 17:03:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 2486; Favourites: 143; Downloads: 18
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"A strange beast once encountered by the legendary Yellow Emperor atop Mount Dongwang. It gave the emperor the name and description of 11,520 supernatural creatures from around the world, and how to appease or exorcise them. The emperor had this information recorded in a great book called the Bai Ze Tu, which mysteriously vanished long ago, possibly when Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of a unified China, had nearly all books burned so that no wisdom of old could contradict his rule."JoeRB
I portrayed the bestiary as a floating magical scroll with a spirit of Long manifesting via it.
Commission for Joe
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love it. I found about Bai Ze while looking information for Narigama
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I don't know that one...
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doesn't matter, my comment could be read "I found about Bai Ze looking for another creature"
Narigama is this btw:Β tuscriaturas.blogia.com/2006/0β¦ is in Spanish but the sources I used are in english. They are at the very end.
A good start is this:Β orig00.deviantart.net/9fd2/f/2β¦
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Loads of fur. And eyes. Strange combination.
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It is weird in the myth, but I tried to make it weirder
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If anyone can do it, that's you.
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High expectations, I hope to never fail them haha.
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This is really good!
Also, as to who the Yellow Emperor is, has always confused me, there are just so many different stories and myths about the Yellow Emperor (some of them contradictory, he even has several names and titles spanning across great periods of time)... Not to mention some stories portray him as a hero, and other portray him as a evil warlord trying to conquer all of China, or the world... This is sort of understandable though, as he is one of the older figures in Chinese folklore.
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I think Chinese Mythology is just like that in itself, many variants of each concept.
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It is 
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Ah okay, that makes sense
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Just one of the many
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I hope you enjoy making more Twisted yet Tamed creatures π
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Wow you dont see that everyday...very well done
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Reminds me a bit like Pans labyrinth
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Absolutely lovely. I like the wizened human face.
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What cunning muzzle at this ox. He is obvious, something plansΒ
P.S.:Β By the way, he isn't a ox evangelist descendant from the Apocalypse, only that had even more eye and it is possible also wings.
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Perhaps they are family
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This bestiary is like...an international "Lesser Key of Solomon", describing supernatural beings and how to intereact with them
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Possibly but I've met with many variants of names in those Chinese myths. They are certainly far from being as uniform as more well known Greek mythology.
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Mount Dongwang? Talk about an unfortunate name...
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Thank you again and again, KOR. 
I love how ancient and wise and solemn he looks. And despite his grotesque, mutated appearance, he looks absolutely mystical. This looks exactly like a beast who would grant ancient knowledge and wisdom to a worthy emperor.
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Heheh, I added octopus-like eyes to make it look more eldritch.
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