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Luminary Ramon

Luminary Ramon is inspired by a combination of three mythological or historical figures.

There are many aspects of Luminary Ramon's death which are directly inspired by Ovid's account of Julius Caesar's murder and subsequent deification (Ovid, Metamorphoses. Bk. 15), in which Ovid describes the horror that Venus feels in discovering the inevitability of Caesars death. In an attempt to protect him, she conceals him in a great cloud. Finally, upon Caesars death, Venus captured his spirit, and as they climbed towards the heavens his spirit erupted into flame and shone as a star.

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Luminary Ramon is blind and a prophet of sorts. In their appearence I liken them to Tiresias, a blind prophet who was cursed to be a woman. Luminary Ramon is a hamel, a type of creature written from the Afrikaan word for a eunuch ram.

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Finally, as a counterpoint to the twin headed eagle found in the Yellow Lake (meant to represent Abzu, and the Yellow Lake, Ur), Luminary Ramon is inspired by the Babylonian creation mythos (as is much of my writing here), specifically Tiamat. Here I take Ramon's deification further by alluding to the fact that he is somehow one with the landscape around him, comparing him to Tiamat, a creature and god broken apart to form the heaven and earth. Furthermore, Tiamat was responsible for the birthing of various monsters. The important thing I wanted to take from this comparison was the relation between Tiamat and her husband, Abzu.

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