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Pagan God Contest
Hosted by [Kuruni]

CONTEST CLOSED!

THE WINNERS ARE:

1st Place: A DRAW:

[nehirwen]

And

[Jitter]

Both have Won this:

Signed 8x10 print.

Please send me your full Address!

2nd Place:

[Oghirdor]

Prize is:

signed 8x10 print.

No need to give me your address, i will give it to you
in a few days.

3rd Place:

[*Blade*]

Prize is:

Signed 8x12 print.

Please send me your full Address!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS AND THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING,
I WILL MAKE A BADGE FOR ALL THE PARTICIPANTS VERY SOON!

THIS WERE THE RULES:

1. NO STOLEN ART!
Images must be created by Elftowners and posted here by the original artist. Which means, no matter how much you might like a particular image on somebody's house, you are not allowed to add it here. This includes random images from the net too. MAKE YOUR OWN IMAGES, DON'T STEAL THEM AND TRY TO CLAIM THEM AS YOUR OWN PLEASE.

2. QUALITY:
Please put forth YOUR BEST EFFORT and the BEST QUALITYy i.e.
- no drawings on lined notebook paper
- no pictures or bad scannings of your drawings
- drawings doesn't have to be new. That means you may submit a drawing you have made before this contest or one that was submitted to another contest already, no problem.
- DRAWINGS MUST BE WELL SHADED OR COLORED.

3. EACH MEMBER MAY SUBMIT TWO (2) ENTRIES:
For this please add a number, name and entry, for a second entry just add it below the first one
under the same number. Just add A: and B:

4. ALL IMAGES MUST BE UPLOADED TO ELFTOWN!
If you need assistance, please ask.

5. SUBJECT MATTER AND MEDIUM:
The Subject is to illustrate one or two of the Pagan Gods from the list below. Images that depict graphic violence, pornography or other disturbing actions will not be accepted. Only images that fit the theme will be allowed.

All mediums, Photography, Sketch, writing and animated GIF's, WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

WHAT IS ALLOWED?

-Ink
-Full Pencil Work
-Charcoal
-Acrylics
-Tempera
-Oils
-Watercolors
-Color Pencils
-Crayons
-Pastels
-Collage
-Mixed Media
-Photo Manipulation ( Well Manipulated )
-Digital Art ( From Scratch or combined )
-3D
-Sculpture ( Clay, Wood, Resin, Lego! Smashed Potatoes! anything except for the obvious of course XD ) For this a photo is allowed of course.

6. THEME:
Pagan God or Lord ( Folklore, Fantasy, Legends, Stories, Myths FROM THE LIST BELOW)
Images not following the theme will be removed.

7. DEADLINE:
The deadline of this competition is APRIL 1st 2009,

8. WINNERS: There will be first, second and third place, the same person cannot win second or third place, nor can someone win different places with the two images he/she submitted.

9. PRIZE:

1st place:

8x10 print, signed.

2nd place:

8x10 print, signed

3rd place:

8x10 print,signed.

The Three Winners will be featured in my Website for Two Months
in the page called Contests that will be created for this purpose when the time comes, with a link to each of the Winning Houses.

PICK ONE OR TWO FROM THESE GODS

THE GREEN MAN: God of Forests and Vegetation, in Wicca, the Green Man usually represents the forces of nature and is related or similar to the Horned God, a mix of ancient Pagan Gods such as the Celtic Cernunnos and the Greek Pan.
There are legends of him in which, like Osiris, he is dismembered and reborn; and prophecies connecting him, like the Green Man, with the end of time. His name means the Green One or Verdant One, he is the voice of inspiration to the aspirant and committed artist. He can come as a white light or the gleam on a blade of grass, but more often as an inner mood. The sign of his presence is the ability to work or experience with tireless enthusiasm beyond one's normal capacities. In this there may be a link across cultures, …one reason for the enthusiasm of the medieval sculptors for the Green Man may be that he was the source of inspiration.

Green Man would appear to be pagan, perhaps a fertility figure or a nature spirit, similar to the woodwose, the wild man of the woods.

CERNUNNOS: is a Celtic god whose representations were widespread in the ancient Celtic world. As a horned god, Cernunnos is associated with horned male animals, especially stags and the ram-headed snake; this and other attributes associate him with produce and fertility. Related with the sun, the Green Man and the Wild Hunt.

GWYN AP NUDD: In Welsh mythology, Gwyn or Gwynn ap Nudd was the ruler of Annwn (the Underworld). He escorted the souls of the dead there, and led a pack of supernatural hounds.
Gwyn: "white" but with the connotations of "fair," and "blessed" or "holy."
Son of the war god Nudd/Lludd. King of the Fairies, Lord of the Otherworld (identified with Avalon/Glastonbury) or Underworld (identified with Annwfn/Uffern), leader of the Wild Hunt. Also called Gwyn ap Nuad, Winter God, Gwyn ap Nuad is a God of war, death and the hunt and the patron God of fallen warriors. His name means "white son of Darkness" since he is the son of the sun/death God Llud. Gwyn ap Nuad appears in a flowing gray cloak and rides upon a pale wild white horse following the hounds during the midwinter Wild Hunts. In some of the tales, his hounds are pictured as three in number - with one hound red, one black and one white. being the three hounds the three months of winter.

OBERON: Oberon is the king of the fairies in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who is feuding with his wife Titania, the queen of the fairies. They are fighting over a baby that Oberon wants to raise as his henchman. Titania wants to keep the baby because he is the child of Titania's mortal friend who died, and Titania wants to raise the child for her friend. Because Oberon and Titania are powerful fairies, their arguments affect the weather. He represents the most primal and darkest side of nature, the secrets, the mysteries, the night, hidden treasures, trickery, intelligence, cold. while Titania represents the joy, the light, kindness and pureness of the soul, vanity, laughter, warmth, honesty, young life and wisdom.

PAN: is the Greek god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music: paein means to pasture. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. Pan inspired sudden fear in lonely places, was later known for his music, capable of arousing inspiration, sexuality, or panic, depending on his intentions.

HADES: the god of the underworld, was a son of the Titans, Cronus and Rhea. Despite modern connotations of death as "evil", Hades was actually more altruistically inclined in mythology. Hades was often portrayed as passive rather than evil; his role was often maintaining relative balance.
Hades ruled the dead, assisted by others over whom he had complete authority. Hades, god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reticent to swear oaths in his name. To many, simply to say the word "Hades" was frightening.

OSIRIS:is the Egyptian god of life, death, and fertility. He was widely worshiped until the forcible suppression of paganism in the Christian era. Osiris was not only the redeemer and merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River.

ANUBIS: is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology. In the ancient Egyptian language, Anubis is known as Inpu, (variously spelled Anupu, Ienpw etc.). The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the king. At this time, Anubis was the most important god of the Dead but he was replaced during the Middle Kingdom by Osiris.
Anubis was usually portrayed as a jackal-headed human, or in fully canine form wearing a ribbon and holding a flail in the crook of its arm. It was strongly associated with cemeteries in ancient Egypt, since it was a scavenger which threatened to uncover human bodies and eat their flesh The distinctive black color of Anubis "did not have to do with the jackal [per se] but with the color of rotting flesh and with the black soil of the Nile valley, symbolizing rebirth.
Anubis is depicted in funerary contexts where he is shown attending to the mummies of the deceased or sitting atop a tomb protecting it. In fact, during embalming, the "head embalmer" wore an Anubis costume. The critical weighing of the heart scene in Book of the Dead also show Anubis performing the measurement that determined the worthiness of the deceased to enter the realm of the dead (the underworld). New Kingdom tomb-seals also depict Anubis atop nine bows that symbolize his domination over the foes of Egypt
Anubis takes various titles in connection with his funerary role, such as He who is upon his mountain, which underscores his importance as a protector of the deceased and their tombs, and the title He who is in the place of embalming, associating him with the process of mummification. Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumes different roles in various contexts, and no public procession in Egypt would be conducted without an Anubis to march at the head.

ODIN:The chief divinity of the Norse pantheon, the foremost of the Aesir. Odin is a son of Bor and Bestla. He is called Alfadir, Allfather, for he is indeed father of the gods. With Frigg he is the father of Balder, Hod, and Hermod. He fathered Thor on the goddess Jord; and the giantess Grid became the mother of Vidar.
Odin is a god of war and death, but also the god of poetry and wisdom. He hung for nine days, pierced by his own spear, on the world tree. Here he learned nine powerful songs, and eighteen runes. Odin can make the dead speak to question the wisest amongst them. His hall in Asgard is Valaskjalf ("shelf of the slain") where his throne Hlidskjalf is located. From this throne he observes all that happens in the nine worlds. The tidings are brought to him by his two raven Huginn and Muninn. He also resides in Valhalla, where the slain warriors are taken.
Odin's attributes are the spear Gungnir, which never misses its target, the ring Draupnir, from which every ninth night eight new rings appear, and his eight-footed steed Sleipnir. He is accompanied by the wolves Freki and Geri, to whom he gives his food for he himself consumes nothing but wine. Odin has only one eye, which blazes like the sun. His other eye he traded for a drink from the Well of Wisdom, and gained immense knowledge. On the day of the final battle, Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir.
He is also called Othinn, Wodan and Wotan. Some of the aliases he uses to travel icognito among mortals are Vak and Valtam. Wednesday is named after him (Wodan).

THANATOS: In Greek mythology, Thanatos (in Ancient Greek, θάνατος – "Death") was the Daimon personification of Death and Mortality. Usually portrayed as a winged young man, twin brother of Hypnos, god of sleep, ( Morpheus is his chief minister and prevents noises from waking him). In Sparta, the image of Hypnos was always put near that of death.: "And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods.

YAMA: He is the son of Surya (Sun), also known as Yamarāja in India, Yanluowang or simply Yan in China, and Enma Dai-Ō in Japan, is the lord of death, first recorded in the Vedas. Yama belongs to an early stratum of Vedic mythology. In Vedic tradition Yama was considered to have been the first mortal who died and espied the way to the celestial abodes, and in virtue of precedence he became the ruler of the departed. Yama's name can be interpreted to mean "twin", and in some myths he is paired with a twin sister Yamī.

AH PUCH: In Maya mythology, Ah Puch was the God of death and King of Metnal, the underworld. He was depicted as a skeleton or corpse adorned with bells, sometimes the head of an owl; even today, some Mexicans and Central Americans believe that an owl's screeches signify imminent death, as the following saying, indicates:

(When the great owl sings, the Indian dies)

DIONYSUS: the Greek god of wine, known as Bacchus to Romans, presided over communication between the living and the dead. Dionysus is strongly associated with the satyrs, centaurs, and the sileni.

VELES: Ancient Slavs viewed their world as a huge tree, with the treetop and branches representing the heavenly abode of gods and the world of mortals, whilst the roots represented the underworld. And while Perun, seen as a hawk or eagle sitting on a tallest branch of tree, was believed to be ruler of heaven and living world, Veles, seen as a huge serpent coiling around the roots, was ruling the world of dead.

SUCELLUS: or Sucellos was the god of agriculture, forests and alcoholic drinks of the Gauls, being the alcoholic toxicity related with sleep and sleep with death.

POREWIT: (also spelled Borevit, Borewit or Prove) was the god of the woods in the Slavic mythology. He is akin to the Greek Pan and the Roman Faunus and Silvanus.
He was represented as a bearded man or in the form of a he-goat, usually provided with deer horns and big genitalia, symbols of fertility and nature. He took care of the voyagers who went lost in the woods and punished the ones who destroyed trees or maltreated animals. Borevit was capable of modify his height to adapt it to the surrounding landscape: he was short next to a mushroom, high and imposing next to a tree.

TRIGLAV: is depicted as a three-headed man sometimes with bands of (gold) blindfolds over his eyes, or a man with three goat heads. Several temples dedicated to Triglav existed near Szczecin, Poland. During the period of Christianization, these temples and statues of Triglav were completely destroyed. Triglav's heads represent sky, earth and the Underworld. Some priests said that Triglav has three heads because he rules all three kingdoms (sky, earth and hell) and has a binding over his eyes so he could not see people's sins. His eyes are said to possess great power (that's why all eyes on his statues are covered).

MORS: In Roman mythology, Mors is the personification of death and equivalent to the Greek Thanatos. He is the son of the goddess of night, Nox, and is the brother of the personification of sleep, Somnus.

PLUTO: Roman God, was originally not the god of the underworld. Pluto is cognate with the Greek word "Ploutos" (wealth, cf. plutocracy), and, under the original name Plutus, was considered by the Romans as the giver of gold, silver, and other subterranean substances. Because these "gifts" were mined, Pluto became recognized as the god of the physical underworld, which in turn helped him become recognized as the god of the spiritual underworld and thus death.

MOLOCH: Like some other gods and demons found in the Bible, Moloch appears as part of medieval demonology, as a Prince of Hell. This Moloch finds particular pleasure in making mothers weep; for he specialises in stealing their children. According to some 16th century demonologists Moloch's power is stronger in October ( Samhain, or Wild Hunt ). It is likely that the motif of stealing children was inspired by the traditional understanding that babies were sacrificed to Moloch.
It is interesting to see how this attitude where also attributed to elves and goblins and some other forest spirits by the Christians in medieval era.

source: Wikipedia and several texts of many Magic books i own. ( too many to make a list here)

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE and please BE RESPECTFUL WITH EACH OTHER!

Go to Pagan God Contest Entries

2008-01-15 [moira hawthorne]: what about a god not on the list? another God? my own patron Ullr... Aaawesome Ullr I did once (for about 5 years) whorship him as Gwyn ap Nudd during about a 10 year intense celtic study... but found he suited norse closer than welsh

2008-01-15 [nehirwen]: I love to enter this contest :D *getting all inspired*

2008-01-15 [Trennas]: i dont know if i have time for it, but i would love to enter this ^^ pagan gods are my favorites ^^ one question though; are photomanipulations allowed?

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: Photomanipulations allowed as long as it looks well "artsy" if you know what i mean? quality quality!

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: There's too little information about Ullr, perhaps you can share it with me? And i need the Gods to represent the same, if you read carefully, all of the above have many things in common.

2008-01-15 [moira hawthorne]: tell me about it... but thats why I gave you the link
and Ullr is very close to Gwyn ap Nudd ~ thats why I though he was him for so long...

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: Yes but i've searched everywhere and in all my books and encyclopedias and they are not too sure who he is and what he was worshiped for, they only have theories but nothing too consistent about what he represents. This Gods i have here represents the passage between the world of the living to the realm of the dead, or from reality to the land of dreams, or from our world to the realm of the Sidhe or faeries, they represent death, hunting, spirits, faeries, the riches of the underworld life. If Ullr represents all of this or any of this, it would be ok. Find more info and share it with me, i'm very eager to learn more about other Gods anytime.

2008-01-15 [moira hawthorne]: did you read in the link I gave you?

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: I did but where did you get the information?

2008-01-15 [moira hawthorne]: from about 30 years of research... from my own collections of books on norse and celtic and pagan religons from internet searches and what people have given me since Ive had the wikis up. I know how hard it is to find good solid documentation... most books have only one or two lines in them... usually in the chapter of another more well known gods/goddesses... but Ive peiced it together... Any one I know who write about Ullr (he appears in several tarot decks I have) says basically the same things... so we all seem to be struggling with the same scattered info... all to back up what I got from him, since he has been my god all my life and the rest is just human dribble to make it look researched. religon and belief isnt about research afterall...

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: Yes i know it's not about research, i want to keep the subject of this contest about Gods that represents the same ideals or or realms, in this case, your God Ullr doesn't fit in this category , but perhaps in other categories of other Gods Contests i will create after this one. Unfortunately Ullr doesn't belong to this list of Gods, but to another kind of Gods. Is there any of these Gods that draws your attention and make you want to participate with en entry?

2008-01-15 [moira hawthorne]: you dont think lord of the hunt... the wilderness/wilds... god of the dead... winter... passage to the other world... suits this contest? hummm... I read the list and I see a wide variety.. between them... Pan to Moloch to Osiris... and he is very close to Gwyn ap Nudd in nearly all but name and culture and the skills of the bow and skiing ... skis are very cultural to sweden and the north... not much use in wales

2008-01-15 [moira hawthorne]: I could of just submited my painting as Gwyn ap Nudd... but Im very truthful and its not about devieving to get into a contest... I really thought he did suit the list

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: Let me re read everything to see what i can do, i understand that you are very fond of Ullr.

2008-01-15 [moira hawthorne]: you could say that... thx u for listen to me and considering him...

2008-01-15 [Trennas]: I wont make it too hard on you ^^ I'll be nice for a change and just pick one from the list ^^ dont know which yet though ^^

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: Thank you Trennas, i really really appreciate that.

2008-01-15 [Trennas]: *smile* you're very welcome ^^ im just glad there finally is a contest i like ^^

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: Great! enjoy it as much as you can, this is the kind of people this contest needs. I hope you like what i have for a prize.

2008-01-15 [Linderel]: Had I any talent, I would participate. As it is, I'll settle for stalking...

2008-01-15 [Trennas]: lol, im not in for the prizes, im in because its a fun contest ^^ (no offense to other contests, but most of them are just not my cuppatea:p) I love your artwork though, works very inspiring XD (in fact, i thought of an idea when i first checked out this page and it was almost the same as prize nr 2 XD darnit:p)

2008-01-15 [nehirwen]: I haven't yet chosen one either, but there are a few that are attracting me :)

2008-01-15 [nehirwen]: love the artwork too, and this whole contest idea ;)

2008-01-15 [Trennas]: yesh ^^ i spammed the contest in my latest diary as well ^^ thought it deserved some extra attention ^^

2008-01-15 [nehirwen]: I'll put it in my house too ^^

2008-01-15 [Trennas]: god idea! (pun intented;)

2008-01-15 [Kuruni]: Thanks so much for spamming about the contest ;) i hope this one pass quickly because i have three more ideas for contests, including designing a Dragon Armor and more surprises.
I'm glad my works are inspiring for someone.

2008-01-15 [Trennas]: hope your next stuff is gonna be as fun as this one ^^

2008-01-16 [Kuruni]: Thanks for the DA visit ;)

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: lol XD havent been on DA in aaaaages XD Well until now anyways:p

2008-01-16 [Delladreing]: Awww, Green Man should have his own section, he rocks ;) (Purely because he's my God and I have lots of images of just him, one of which I am working on at home >.>)

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: true ^^ maybe he and Cernunnos can play a game of godly chess together, who knows XD

2008-01-16 [Delladreing]: ...and mental image = win XD

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: i hear that when Cernunnos loses, he runs through the winner with his horns:p

iow, let the goat win:p

2008-01-16 [Delladreing]: Pfft, Green Man = older and wiser. He knows when to dodge XD

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: older, wiser.. and slower..

2008-01-16 [Delladreing]: Naah. He's made of leaves man, he bends with the wind, Matrix style XD

2008-01-16 [Kuruni]: BWUAHAHAHHA!!!! i love this contest already! ok, i will add a section about the Green Man! silly me, i forgot to copy the info i have!

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: i dont think Neo bended with the wind.. most likely he was kicked in the back-knees by an invisible leprechaun..

2008-01-16 [Kuruni]: ahahaha!

2008-01-16 [Delladreing]: Yaaay <3

Now I just need to wait till I get home so I can find where I put my chalks...and my pad XD

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: well you sure got what you wanted XD

2008-01-16 [nehirwen]: I've made my decision :) I'll go for Veles.

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: ill probably go for Cernunnos, just because he reminds me of the pagans in the Thief games XD

2008-01-16 [nehirwen]: I go for Veles just because the tree thing reminds me of shamanism, were I'm reading a book about at the moment :)

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: what three things? Veles is snake dude?

2008-01-16 [Linderel]: Tree, not three. :P

2008-01-16 [nehirwen]: snake dude around the roots of a tree ;)

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: oh shit XD sorry, i was a little mixed up there for a sec XD have been reading and writing so much today i didnt see the difference ^^

2008-01-16 [nehirwen]: had that too today xD I paid something with my paycard, and instead of reading 'you have paid' I thought it said 'you have failed' (makes more sense in dutch I think..lol)

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: lol XD i have that all the timeXD i swear those machines are devious and sometimes show you things they arent supposed to show:p

2008-01-16 [Delladreing]: Different note: THIEF GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: downloading as we speak ^^ well the first two, i has the third:p

2008-01-16 [Delladreing]: Oh I loved the first two! Are they windows xp? Mine don't play anymore cause they're too old ._.

2008-01-16 [Trennas]: they probably could work on xp.. if there is a patch out for it.. ill check when theyre done downloading and explain ze details when i get them to work ^^

2008-01-17 [Trennas]: really had a cool idea last night! so im gonna work on it some today XD

2008-01-17 [Kuruni]: oh my! Thief! i forgot about that game! i never passed the mines because the game was not working properly, now i will have to get it! i hope it's the same Thief game we are talking about.... oh and i see the contest have followers now!! good good!

2008-01-17 [Trennas]: depends XD there are three games and i never played the first two so i wouldnt know about any mines XD

on a contest note; im gonna make a digital painting, for which i made a 3d mockup today XD saves me a lot of time getting the perspectives right XD

2008-01-17 [nehirwen]: I've been working on the roots of the tree today ^^ (also digital painting)

2008-01-18 [Trennas]: squeee:D treesies:D

2008-01-18 [nehirwen]: Nehirwens WIP go drool there ;) that's were I've put my wip-tree x)

2008-01-18 [Trennas]: looks great so far:D ill put up a wip as well soon!

2008-01-18 [nehirwen]: thank you :) and cool! give me a linky when you've put it up somewhere ^^

2008-01-18 [Trennas]: so far i just have my mockup; just a quick 3d sketch which i use to get the perspectives right and stuff XD

2008-01-18 [nehirwen]: I've never used a 3d program, but it sounds very neat :D

2008-01-18 [Trennas]: this is what i have so far; now i need to steal Saray's tablet XD (clickeh to enlarge)

2008-01-18 [nehirwen]: woah, that's looking great! :D go sneak to Saray's tablet en grab it!
*also stole tablet from bf... like 3 months ago now* xD

2008-01-18 [Kuruni]: Looking good looking goooooood! this is great, i can see that people is fond of quality nowadays, thank the Gods! I mean, i understand if saomeone does not have the same artistic skills as others, but they must know what is balance, what is tone, contrast and how important a background is no matter what style of art she or he choses. I don't care if someone makes a crayola portrait as long as it takes the best out of the crayolas!, there's time, so for any person who is doubting to enter because he or she thinks is not so good, make a collage, or a plushie, or a lego statue! anything but as long as it's not photography or a gif, it's fine with me. Sculpture is also allowed as long as it has anything that surrounds the sulpture like branches, leaves or shrooms or rocks, a complete piece, not a lonely figure floating in space alright? , do i have to list what's allowed? what do you say?

2008-01-19 [Trennas]: thanksies ^^ and i think we're all just inspired by the contest really ^^ though i should have though of lego statues earlier XD

2008-01-19 [nehirwen]: a list of what's allowed sounds fine with me.

I love lego ^^
and yes, this contest is very inspiring :)

2008-01-19 [Trennas]: a list might be smart XD prevents people from asking annoying questions such as "are photomanips allowed etc XD"

2008-01-19 [nehirwen]: indeed ;)

2008-01-19 [Trennas]: lol ^^ im gonna continue working on the piece next week:)

2008-01-20 [Kuruni]: Ok, i will make the list of what's allowed!

2008-01-20 [Trennas]: smashed potatoes XD

2008-01-21 [Trennas]: OH! Especially for Dela when she gets back: found out how to get the Thief games running in XP ^^ bit of a workaround, but it does the trick:) I'm not halfway through the Hammer factory (passed the creepy ass zombie mines of doom XD) and had one bug so far:)

2008-01-21 [Delladreing]: Oh oh tell me tell me! (I just landed XD)

2008-01-21 [Trennas]: welcome back! had a nice flight?:p ill message you ^^

2008-01-21 [Delladreing]: Hellishly long :P but I plan on sleeping in a while. I shall await your message with antici-pation.

2008-01-21 [Trennas]: can imagine ^^ hope you had fun:D

2008-01-22 [Kuruni]: Oh you see you see! the mines! i hate those Zombies!! Yesh yesh, i will have to play it again bwuahahahaha.....

Interesting i'm a zombie movie fan but those zombies terrified me <_<

2008-01-22 [Delladreing]: Totally, the, same.

Thief 3 actually rendered me too scared to play in first person mode.

2008-01-22 [Trennas]: hear hear XD i found it amazing how they managed to do that; I'm not easily scared, but they really put down a frightening atmophere you just cant ignore and you feel in every inch of your body, which is very rare in games i think XD most of the attempts at being scary usually result in blood and gore, which is not scary at all; just gross..

2008-01-22 [Delladreing]: Same with the zombie ship O.O

2008-01-22 [Trennas]: oh yes XD i thought the shalebridge cradle was scarier though XD i mean, a psychiatric clinic, an orphanage and haunted? it doesnt get any creepier than that XD

2008-01-23 [Kuruni]: Oh quiet now, i haven't even played the first one completely, i declare the thief game conversation finished for now XD, but i do allow you to talk about zombies if you wish or games and stuff. Did anyone play Icewindale 1 and 2 or Baldurs gate at all?

2008-01-23 [Delladreing]: *is good* and oooh I nearly bought the Baldurs gate today, they were on offer in my game store. Instead I settled for games where I get to be God..I like those kind of games X)

2008-01-23 [Trennas]: i actually have icewind dale; only tried it once for a few hours and havent touched it since.. if anyone wants it, ill be happy to sell it at a rediculously low price XD

2008-01-25 [Kuruni]: ahahah i have Baldur's Gate with the expansion and Baldur's Gate II, and both Icewind Dale games, i love these games so much, i believe this is the best games i've played so far. I used to be a videogame junkie a while ago, played too much fighting games and was quite good at those, i loved Super Nintendo games like Metroid, Castlevania, Starfox, Rock and Roll Racing... then Saturn came and then Dreamcast. But i loved Neogeo more than anything. Then i played Castlevania for PS1 and after that one i never found anything better and stopped playing, until i played Baldur's Gate and Icewind, i also played Unreal like a freak... i've been trying to find cool games but nothing seems to be so interesting anymore, bad stories, everything is 3d, bad music, boring or sissy characters...i mean, i don't have anything against sissies, but when they abuse one theme, it's off with me, everything and everyone looks too Emo for me, i guess i'm not that young anymore.

2008-01-27 [Trennas]: hmmm i have to both agree and disagree with you there.. yes, there are a lot of crappy games out there these days, but also some priceless gems ^^ im happy i own a fair share of them, but the bad thing is that my pc cant keep up with all the new developments:p

2008-01-28 [Kuruni]: Yes same here.... Oh well, i liked Metal Gear, Code Veronica and Silent Hill :D

2008-01-28 [Trennas]: i like.. well.. look on my house! there's an entire list there XD

2008-01-30 [Kuruni]: Well, too much talking from all of us and no art, is any of you really working on something? Perhaps i shall set a date....hmmmm

2008-01-30 [nehirwen]: Sorry, I've stopped working on my entry for a while, I've just been appointed to the council etc, and have a lot on my mind.
I think I'm able to work further within a couple of days though :)

2008-01-30 [Trennas]: im not unfortunately.. school has once again required my full attention (trust me, not my choice -_-) so it will be a while when i can start to work on this again:(

2008-01-31 [Kuruni]: What a pity, at least if you can't work on tis one you can participate in the next contest, it has something to do with designing Armors and stuff.

2008-01-31 [Trennas]: that would be equally difficult for me XD

2008-02-09 [nehirwen]: I've found some time to work on my entry ^__^
Still far from finished though..

2008-02-10 [Kuruni]: Looking good!!!

2008-02-10 [Trennas]: definitly! keep it up:)

2008-02-12 [Melocrie]: Only from the list? No fair =(

2008-02-12 [Trennas]: why wouldnt that be fair? its [Kuruni]'s contest so she can set the rules, which she did, because otherwise this thing would most likely turn into chaos.

2008-02-12 [nehirwen]: And chaos is not what we want. :)

I've put my entry on the entries page ^^
I probably will update it during the contest though..
but *yay*. Oh and thank you for the earlier comments!

2008-02-15 [Kuruni]: Thank you [nehirwen]!! Yes, this is the list i want, these are the Gods i got interested with and i believe the list is very long, there's so much to chose from!

By the way bwuahahaha, i have another idea for another contest and it involves an Inn....yes yes an Inn! with Barkeeper and Barmaid! including a story. so let's hurry! the Inn contest is not that simple, you will see you will see!

2008-02-17 [Trennas]: lol XD does it include writing a story? XD im much more better at that than visual contests XD

2008-02-20 [Skydancer]: an Inn? hmmm The Ins and Outs of the Inn of Winds, where blows your mind and wallet on chocolates and lasses. :DD:

2008-02-20 [Trennas]: i nwas thinking more along the lines of rum and lasses, but chocolate works just as fine:D

2008-02-20 [nehirwen]: Perhaps rum in the chocolates? ;)

2008-02-20 [Trennas]: good plan!

2008-02-20 [nehirwen]: Sounds delicious <img:stuff/mood2-gif.gif>

2008-02-20 [Trennas]: good plans usually do:D

2008-02-20 [nehirwen]: <img:stuff/zabuN-gif.gif>

2008-02-20 [Skydancer]: ummmm chocolate Rum Truffles, with willing wenches.... :)

2008-02-23 [Tynuka-Rhytishy]: I'm pretty sure I'd like to enter this contest. =] Actually, I'm gunna get started on it right away. =o

2008-02-24 [Kuruni]: Yes sure! writing too why not, poems, anything you like, but please advertise about this contest so we can go to the next one! i have so many ideas!

2008-02-25 [Trennas]: im sorry; its not like i dont want to continue working on this, but school is really being a bitch atm :( just cant find the time for it:(

2008-03-07 [Masayume_soto]: Wow, this sounds awesome, I'm totally gonna try and conjure something into existence really fast.

2008-03-09 [Kuruni]: yay! more people! go ahead [Masayume_soto]! can't wait to see what you'll make.

[Trennas] that's alright, school is good.

2008-03-09 [Trennas]: school is also busy XD but i finished something major last week so im one step closer to graduation XD

2008-03-12 [Kuruni]: wooohooo! yay for [Trennas]!!

2008-03-13 [Trennas]: thanksies ^^ down side is that now im fully back into graduation project mode so i still dont have time for the contest:(

2008-03-17 [Rice]: Ah Puch sounds fun to do, i may have to do that one!
Is this contest being re-done for i can't see the place to submit the finished art or photography?

2008-03-17 [windowframe]: There's a link right at the bottom :P
Go to Pagan God Contest Entries

2008-03-19 [KaiRei]: hmm...Cernunnos may be interesting to do if I have the time...^^

2008-03-23 [Kuruni]: :)

2008-03-23 [Trennas]: i got my own little tablet a few days ago XD so now i can paint digitally as well:) think im gonna continue working on my entry soon:)

2008-03-24 [Masayume_soto]: I hate that I haven't gotten around to doing anything for this besides rough sketches of the Gos I want to draw. Okay, new stuff! I'm determined to have something done after spring break, there.

2008-03-27 [Kuruni]: it seems no one have time for the old Gods anymore... i guess that's why they are called Old. But the contest will be here for any of you that wishes to enter, i will check it out once in a while.

in the meantime: Please take a look at this clip, i guess we can all make it, please remember
the time, it will be so nice to think and imagine all of you doing this at
the same time, all connected in the dark for an hour, unless you are
connected to a breathing machine, i can't see why not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qczUcQ-VjM

2008-03-27 [Trennas]: im actually planning on continuing to work on my entry as soon as i find a digital painting program that doesnt crash every five seconds ^^

2008-04-01 [Thrivis]: Ooh, when i get some more free time, I'm going to try entering this one. :D

2008-04-10 [Linn Scarlett]: *sniffles and chews on pencil* this is going to be good :) I've a personal fetish with Cerunni and Pan so *chuckles evily* Mind you, I work with chinese ink and copic markers, I am assuming that's ok too, eh?

2008-04-10 [Linn Scarlett]: There is an overwelming amount of old GODS here, not that I mind though :3 I am not that good at the woman-form anyway XD

2008-04-12 [Kuruni]: Yes, well, there's too many Goddesses drawn already, so yeah, i wanted some beefcake around here ahahahah!! No really, masculine representation of Death, Nature, Fairy World, fertility and protection. why not.

Ink and copic markers are allowed yesh yesh.

2008-07-06 [Kuruni]: Alright i see we have new entries, this is very nice!

2008-08-05 [Drya]: Untill when do we have time Kuruni? :-)

2008-08-07 [NOOOPE]: SO you have to do a god from the list? (This has probably been asked before)

2008-08-11 [Kuruni]: *****7. DEADLINE:
The deadline of this competition is 20 participants,
please let me know if you wish to upload just one image.****

Yes a God from that list, that´s correct :D

2008-08-16 [Drya]: I will make a God, lol, I just don't know when. :')

2008-09-04 [Linn Scarlett]: Don't we all :P
Good gods the first price would be such a beautiful poster >.>'

2008-09-04 [Wulf Skjaldr]: *thump thump thumps in the door*

ODIN!

*drinks mead*
*thump thump thumps out the door*

2008-09-04 [Linn Scarlett]: That was so random wulf XD

2008-09-04 [Wulf Skjaldr]: It was a viking's protest of his gods being left out of the fun.

*gives a viking pout, which looks like more of a scowl*

">.<"

2008-09-04 [Linn Scarlett]: Eh I know your pouts :3 But I also know your point
Luckily I favour several gods ;)

2008-09-04 [Kuruni]: oh no no don´t ruin the fun because when we finish this contest i have three contest for ya and that includes Norse Mythology!

2008-09-05 [Kuruni]: ODIN and ANUBIS added!

2008-09-05 [Wulf Skjaldr]: *cheers, and drinks*

May your hair never fall out!

2008-09-05 [Linn Scarlett]: As long as Heimdall is in there I am fine >.>' *pets him*

2008-09-06 [Kuruni]: Who?

2008-09-06 [Linn Scarlett]: Heimdall who stands guard of Bifrost, to warn the others when the giants attack -or anything else unpleasant tries to cross the rainbow bridge

2008-09-06 [Kuruni]: ah hahaha nice!

2008-09-06 [Kuruni]: And yes, i would looove to learn Dutch! and German! i´m good at languages somehow, so i guess it wont be so hard.

2008-09-06 [Yuriona]: I wanna learn German! My dad has been pestering me to learn it for as long as I remember.

2008-09-06 [nehirwen]: I've learned German in highschool, but I have nooo idea how I passed that exam. (long story) :S I love the language though, you should learn it indeed :)

2008-09-06 [Yuriona]: My grandma spoke Low German fluently and I think my dad felt badly he never learned it, which is why I assume he wants me to learn German.

2008-09-07 [Linn Scarlett]: Sounds logical in a parent-sort-of-way, Yuri ^_^ I feel bad about not paying too much attention in german class now, as I was royally owned by germans last months during excavations :p

2008-09-29 [arthemis_]: [Kuruni] can you still have two entries? :)

2008-10-02 [Kuruni]: Indeed! two entries are more than welcome!

2008-10-09 [Drya]: Odin? Yay yay, I will draw him! ^^

2008-10-09 [Linn Scarlett]: oeh that might be my second entry too ... though i'd have to finish my first first >.>

2008-10-09 [nehirwen]: I want to draw Anubis as second entry, I should find some time somewhere..

2008-11-20 [Kuruni]: hey kids, guess what, i will add another prize. The Winners will be featured in my own Website in a page called Contests. I already have a forum where all of you can participate.

The art pieces will remain there for Two Months with links to your ET houses, so if you win, be sure to pimp your house.

2008-11-20 [Yuriona]: Awesome! XD

2008-11-20 [Linn Scarlett]: hmm that is awesome!

Re-reading this page makes me wanna jump head-first into the "there is no such thing as celts" debate again xD

2008-11-21 [Oghirdor]: I think i will participate too :D

2008-11-22 [Kuruni]: Welcome Oghirdor!

2008-11-23 [arthemis_]: but I already pimped my house <img:stuff/mood-gif.gif>

2008-11-23 [Yuriona]: LOL!

2008-11-24 [Kuruni]: Good! hahaha

2008-12-03 [kasaix.x]: I totally lost my drawing TT.TT..........i think i would lose my head if it wasn't connected ^-^ lol...do i have time to do a new drawing.....just wondering...

2008-12-03 [FamousPanda]: the deadline is 20 entries and there are 13 i think you're good lol

2009-03-14 [Kuruni]: Kids go to the pagan god contest entries and read my last comment please.

2009-03-31 [Kuruni]: Ok! LAST DAY!!!! HURRY UP KIDS!!!

PAINT FIX ADD COLOR, DO WHAT YOU MUST TO WIN!!!

2009-03-31 [Trennas]: ahw man, totally forgot about this contest with all the recent business :( guess I'll have to drop out since I don't have the time to finish something in one day :(

2009-04-01 [Skydancer]: When this one is over, she will just have to do another one. :D

2009-04-01 [Kuruni]: I will! i even have the theme already!

2009-04-01 [Kuruni]: POLL READY!

2009-04-02 [Yuriona]: How do I make a poll

2009-04-02 [Kuruni]: Yay! hahahaha

2009-04-02 [Yuriona]: =)

2009-08-01 [Kuruni]: READY FOR THE NEXT CONTEST??? it involves Dragons and Female Slaves!

2009-08-01 [Skydancer]: OOOOOOOh.. My... hmmmmm

2012-09-18 [Kuruni]: Guys guys, i never got confirmation that you actually received your prints, it´s been a long time i know, but if you did not received the prints, please write to me to istalindar@gmail.com and let me know, if you did not get the prints, i can send them again, no problem at all, i know my country´s postal service is a mess, just let me know who you are and why you are writting, and please add your username too so i will know who you are.

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