Just watched the movie awe the Moder, suddenly familiar with the style from your artworks. End up to your blog to check and surprised that's really you!
These are amazing! I am gonna go back to the movie because I missed it the first time, but the parishioners start out as humans and then slowly morph to resemble the creature? Or are those body modifications they did to themselves? It's really creepy and fascinating either way
Yes! The parishioners are some of the oldest members of the cult, they live long past a natural lifespan and start to mummify alive. The body modifications are performed by the cult to shape them more in the image of their vain god. The immortality blessing is bestowed by the Jottun, in the movie you can see it mark a victim this way with its hand, and one of the cultists reveals her mark on her chest. The mark is the Norse rune for “ancestry” and you can see it in the bottom posted parishioner's stomach here. The outer five circles of the rune correspond to the five digits of the Jottun’s hand as it pushes them into the flesh (and over time bruised lines appear to join the five points into the rune).
He lives!! Stunning work as always 👌
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to finally see the designs behind The Ritual.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see some activity from you too!
Just watched the movie awe the Moder, suddenly familiar with the style from your artworks. End up to your blog to check and surprised that's really you!
ReplyDeleteThese are amazing! I am gonna go back to the movie because I missed it the first time, but the parishioners start out as humans and then slowly morph to resemble the creature? Or are those body modifications they did to themselves? It's really creepy and fascinating either way
ReplyDeleteYes! The parishioners are some of the oldest members of the cult, they live long past a natural lifespan and start to mummify alive. The body modifications are performed by the cult to shape them more in the image of their vain god. The immortality blessing is bestowed by the Jottun, in the movie you can see it mark a victim this way with its hand, and one of the cultists reveals her mark on her chest. The mark is the Norse rune for “ancestry” and you can see it in the bottom posted parishioner's stomach here. The outer five circles of the rune correspond to the five digits of the Jottun’s hand as it pushes them into the flesh (and over time bruised lines appear to join the five points into the rune).
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