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Marker practice featuring Mew Ichigo. I want to do more traditional art!

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Hey there, I'm the OP! Thank you so much for this info! ABC was one of the few (like 4) sources I could find about this creature online that weren't just copy-pastes of other sources with no original thoughts. I didn't shout you out partly because I was looking specifically for interpretations of this creature as a mermaid, not as a turtle, as I think I drew this for MerMay- although I think the turtle interpretation is a very likely inspiration. I just found the idea of a knight-mermaid more compelling to draw, but a knight-turtle is also interesting...

Anyways, most of the reason I didn't list you as a source is that, in my eyes at least, ABC is a STAPLE of online mythological, folklore, and cryptid info. It would have been like listing wikipedia as a source, so obvious that everyone would know to look there first anyways. You must make up a fourth to a third of my bookmarks in my research on creatures, I'm still in shock that you replied to my post! Your work with ABC was NOT a waste, I LOVE your website! Your interpretations are always original and inspiring, your depictions are unique and high quality, and your maps and sources have helped me out SO many times in my research on creatures. Like I said before, you're one of the few sources I've always found to have original thoughts on and interpretations of creatures. I remember being saddened when you posted that the site would be on hiatus, but as someone who also tries to create a lot and feels overwhelmed often, I totally understand when you have to step away from something for personal sake. If you're thinking of coming back to it, I and MANY others would be THRILLED! Take all the time you need, even if that means never returning to it, but if you do want to, I know you would be met with oceans of support!!

Thank you for boosting my art, I am HONORED to have been reblogged by you! I hope you liked my interpretation of the Zitiron! : )

Zitiron- a creature with the bottom half of a fish and the top half of a knight.

The zitiron only shows up in three sources that I can find- the Ortus Sanitatis (published in Germany 1491, author unknown), Van der Naturen Bloeme (early 14th c) by Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant, and De natura rerum (1244 CE) by Flemish writer Thomas of Cantimpré. Van der Naturen Bloeme is actually just a Dutch translation of the Latin De natura rerum, so technically there's only two original sources. The only reason I mention both is that the original De natura rerum- which is sourced from a large number of works by philosophers and writers such as Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, St. Ambrose, Jacques de Vitry, and too many others to explore them all as original sources- doesn't have any illustrations and is in Latin, which I can't read, making it a personally useless source. But Van der Naturen Bloeme does have illustrations- the third image in this post is Jacob van Maerlant's interpretation of the zitiron I assume to be outlined in De natura rerum.

The only other original place that a zitiron can be found, according to the internet, is in the Ortus Sanitatis, a Latin natural history encyclopedia with no known author published in 1491 in Mainz, Germany. It has illustrations, the second image in this post is the author's interpretation. But again, I can't read Latin and it's hard to read the stylized text to put into google translate.

There is almost no information about the zitiron online, which is a shame because it's a really interesting figure. If you can read Latin or medieval Dutch I would LOVE to work together to place the origin of this mythological creature and learn more about it!

For the drawing, I wanted to honor Jacob van Maerlant and Thomas of Cantimpré's Flemish heritage. The helmet, chainmail, shield, and goedendag on the zitiron are representative of what the Flemish forces wore and used at the Battle of the Golden Spurs, a 1302 victory of the French that is a source of pride and celebrated every July 11th by the Flemish today.

TLDR: The zitiron is a little known creature from the Middle Ages or perhaps antiquity, with the bottom half of a fish and the top half of a knight. My drawing is inspired by the Flemish culture of two of the only writers to leave any information about the zitiron.

If you've got the time and can read Latin, could you take a look at the two Latin texts I mentioned? For the Ortus Sanitatis, I was able to flip through the whole thing and find the page that has the info on zitirons. It's on page 730 here- (x). But for De natura rerum, which you can access here (x), I have no idea where it could be. There's a translation project for it ongoing through Kalamazoo College, but I don't see anything relating to zitirons or relevant mythology on their page so far. And if you can miraculously read medieval Dutch, here's the link to the page on zitirons in Van der Naturen Bloeme (x).

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today's stream drawing was a colorful Nami!

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they got that shit on fr

Bonus:

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hopes and dreams and liberty.

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someone else might call it faith

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happy (late) bday 2 my bestie!!!!!

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Luna moth and death head moth

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I made a Room Building tutorial! Lemme know if it helps! 🧡

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we love those hot pinks and blues part two.

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GHOST PRINCESS PERONA 💕⚡️

happy halloween everyone! :]

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i love when the straw hats Break someone

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Inktober 2023, prompt: Saddle