#ancient human

[kawakona]

[ancientorigins]

Researchers reveal that a sudden and massive freeze 1.1 million years ago wiped out ancient humans in Europe, leaving a gap of thousands of years before they returned.

[cypriathus]

Here's my version of Lilith!

WARNING: There are mentions of a mental health issue, coitus, and misogyny (in regards to her ex-husband).

Lerszukotha is a no-nonsense and humble former Awukhoziel of the Admuszroktebi tribe who was cast into Nifjazroghetus, becoming an archdemon of the libertines. She has frequent mood swings from energetically optimistic and joyous to extremely miserable and irritable. She possesses a deep-seated desire to be loved, but she struggles with forming romantic relationships and platonic friendships with men due to how horrible the previous ones went. Despite having PTSD and a fair amount of emotional anxiety, she slowly learned how to live with it and not let it drag her down. She knows how to be self-assured and confident to speak the truth without acting on aggression and intentionally hurting anyone’s feelings. She’s brutally straightforward, forthright, and frank in her communication, only lying when she feels threatened or uncomfortable. She greatly refuses to be subservient, preferring to live her life as a strong-willed and free-spirited woman. She takes pride in her willpower and strives to be self-reliant, rising up to any challenge and using her leadership skills to inspire others. She’s strongly against those who intentionally harm children and women, showing no fear and hesitation in enacting vengeance. Lerszukotha’s presence evokes a sense of terror and sensuality, and she doesn’t mind playing into her seductive and manipulative nature when needed.

She possesses a height of 7’ 11” (241.3 cm) and an hourglass mesomorphic body type with a bit of muscle, broad shoulders, upper arms that carry some of her weight, and prominent thighs. She has pallid skin with scattered brown moles and purplish stretch marks on her belly, hips, and chest. She has sparkling emerald eyes and long, feathered, side-parted light mahogany brown hair. Her hair is decorated with small pieces of grass-green fluorite and metallic purple ribbons. Like all Admuszroktebi women and chieftainesses, Lerszukotha wears leafy undergarments and a waist girdle of dried blueberries, crape myrtle, and silver bells. She has a black veil of glittery gold, a crown of foxgloves and barn owl feathers, and a pair of rope sandals. She dons an eminence purple mantle with an embroidered pattern of coral roses and purplish-red phoenix feathers, which surrounds a golden skull-headed jade rabbit. She has a long, low-necked silk dress covered in a pattern of wisteria paws, wavy golden serpents, red-violet rhombuses, stylised dark purple eyes, ocean green triangles, turquoise water ripples, and Persian plum rectangles. The bodice of her white dress is open all the way to her well-defined waist, which exposes her large breasts.

After being sent to Nifjazroghetus, she has the upper body of her former self, but her lower half is something similar to a 12’ 6” (381 cm) amphiptere. Her serpentine body is covered in light-coloured feathers that imitate twilight, and she has a spiked tail. She possesses seven charcoal black wings that have a faint violet and emerald sheen. Lerszukotha’s light mahogany brown hair has voluminous curls and she has four eyes in a grass-green hue with dark burgundy highlights. The musculature of her Awukhoziel upper body is more muscular, her hands have golden claws, and she has a somewhat swollen belly. Her skin is now a warm ivory with scattered dark red moles and pinkish stretch marks on her upper arms, chest, and belly. She only wears a Persian plum shawl with tassels and an embroidered pattern of coral roses, purplish-red phoenix feathers, and wisteria paws that surround a silver skull-headed jade rabbit.

Lerszukotha possesses supernatural stamina and an incredible mastery over in black magic, agriculture, beast-taming, peacekeeping, visual arts, and music. She can lift cars, trucks, buses, bulldozers, small-moderately sized boulders, and the tallest trees ever recorded. She’s capable of performing any offensive action with the force of destructive conventional explosives, causing damage to tall buildings, neighbourhoods, and house-sized asteroids. As a result of her unnatural dexterity, she has better control over her limbs, muscles, and digits than most living creatures. She’s highly resistant to large objects of supersonic speeds, hydrogen explosions, natural disasters, temperatures near kelvin and below negatives, extremely-heavy armour penetration shots, and asteroid impacts. She can manipulate the night, storms, diseases, desires, libertines, prostitution, mythical beasts, familiars, dark energy, pheromones, hormones, and body chemistry. She possesses a mind that exists everywhere and anywhere simultaneously, and she’s able to induce death through sexual intercourse. She can easily perceive and know everything about a person's sex life, and psychically intuit information about feminine sexuality and reproduction. Lerszukotha is able to shapeshift into humans, animalistic forms, and a dark fog, and channel her soul for creating weapons, shields, energy blasts, and nocturnal animals.

FAMILY:

Admenozithus (ex-husband)

Ezasvoghin (younger sister)

Kairszoben (son)

Utsimoderva (son)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Lilith

Night Hag

First Woman

Screech Owl

Breaker of Chains

Howler In The Desert

Kindler of Denied Desires

Mistress of Deceit and Betrayal

She Who Walks Without Shame

Elegant Maiden Who Has Stolen Brightness

Angel of Sacred Prostitution (by Samuvozeli)

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

She’s heterosexual

As an Æylphitus, her name means “night”.

She’s the queen of Concupiscence

She was made from the same red clay as Admenozithus

A piece of her rib was used to make Ezasvoghin, which she rightfully labelled as her younger sister.

Despite being the wife of Admenozithus, she was mostly treated as a concubine and inferior to her husband.

She quietly left Admenozithus after he cheated on her with Ezasvoghin, which was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. She still holds resentment and disgust towards her ex-husband despite having some feelings for him.

She slept with multiple men after leaving her husband

She has a habit of kidnapping babies at night as she finds genuine comfort in young children.

She absolutely despises Samuvozeli for what he did to her and her twin sister, never finding it in herself to forgive his heinous actions.

She’s ashamed of having Utsimoderva

After pleading with the divine council, she was sent to hell for three reasons: (1) she didn’t think she deserved to be in heaven; (2) if her ex-husband was ever sent to heaven, she wouldn’t want to see him or be near him; and (3) she wants revenge for what Samuvozeli did.

She smells like cinnamon, frankincense, and myrrh

The foxglove is her most favourite flower

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[enbycrip]

EDITED TO ADD: Sources from the OP in the comments

[yourangle-yuordevil]

That time in ancient Greece when Aziraphale needed a speedy horse and accidentally invented the pegasus

VS.

Whatever Crowley had going on in medieval times

[great-and-small]

I can’t tell you how much I love this artwork from ancient Egypt (the Middle Kingdom). People have been raising cattle and practicing animal husbandry for so long, that there is something almost inherently human about this scene.

Everyone in the field of veterinary medicine or agriculture knows the feeling of staying up late with a laboring animal trying to make sure both mom and baby are okay. Delivering a calf is often physically and emotionally exhausting work that takes enormous patience and learned skill. It requires a unique balance of physical strength and gentleness to do correctly. There is no feeling quite like getting that baby out and everyone is okay. I’m certain ancient people must have felt the same way, and I wonder if the artist knew this feeling firsthand. I wonder if those humans depicted were people the artist knew, if the cow and calf maybe were as well.

[callisteios]

Hi, feel free to take my new uquiz to discover what kind of vampire you are!

[sixteenseveredhands]

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This artifact was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

[gorgynei]

λυκάνθρωπος / Μινώταυρος

[bizarrelittlemew]

i can't wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 60+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 70+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 80+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 90+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to look back on my life and know that i loved things deeply and passionately and was inspired to create and was part of communities with incredible people from all over the world brought together by the stories that touched us

[chestnutroan]

Sapien boy and neanderthal girl doze in the springtime, finally together again

[thatpunnyperson]

According to NBC here in the US, the missing titanic sub has been found. As debris. Off the bow of the Titanic wreckage.

And it looks like the sub suffered what we all suspected, and what was undoubtedly the more merciful of the two options: a catastrophic implosion from the pressure.

Also, more info has come to light about the fishing trawler with the hundreds of migrants that sank cataclysmically off the coast of Greece, indicating that the greek coast guard knew about the vessel AND how much trouble the vessel was in, and were towing it at a speed that made it capsize, at which point they unhooked the tow line and watched the trawler sink without helping the passengers to safety. Despite a bunch of other ships trying to help as well throughout the whole ordeal.

So a lot of people are dead, all because of regulations (and the lack thereof) regarding sea-faring vessels and rescue protocols. People shouldnt be allowed to make a business charging a ton of money for a ride on an uncertified, unsafe, un-seaworthy ship going deep into the ocean with no distress beacon or tether to the mothership. People also shouldnt be allowed to enact laws that criminalize the ferrying of refugees, which then force the refugees to hitch rides on fishing trawlers, and which also prevent people from helping those fishing trawlers full of refugees due to fear of legal consequences.

Hopefully BOTH of these events spark changes on an international scale in terms of what is legally allowed to be sailed, who is legally allowed to be the passengers, and what the rescue protocols are in the event of disaster for any seafaring vessel, illegal or not. It shouldnt be just the global 1% who get 24/7 search parties and remote-operated submersibles helping rescue them.

[rudjedet]

hey if you're feeling bad today just remember that the ancient Egyptians knew to use the pulse as a measure of overall health, had pregnancy tests, practiced palliative care, used suture strips to close up gashes, and treated dislocated jaws and broken noses the same way we still do today

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 214

“I did an oopsie.” 

Clockwork paused in his work, gaze turning from his work towards his ghostling (it didn’t matter if he was an adult, he’d always be his ghostling) who was smiling nervously, avoiding his eyes. 

“Oh?” He kept his tone light, even as he worked on untangling a time knot. Honestly at least Danny was immune to any effect of time, even if he couldn’t look into his timelines in exchange. It came with being the other half of Infinity. 

“Yeeah… you know that corner of the multiverse you told me not to go to because you’re working on some time problems? I might have stumbled into one of the worlds in the corner…” 

He stopped his machinations, fully turning towards Danny- Space, his Core whispered and quivered in utter delight at having an Equal in power- with a raised eyebrow, leaning on his staff and silently telling him to explain. 

Danny poked his fingers together, giving a nervous laugh. “So uh, I was just exploring right? Well me and Ellie, you know how she gets when she can’t wander, and um… I er, we might have messed with some things in the creation of it… I didn’t know it was part of that universe, I swear! It was so far at the fringes and halfway into the Zone and I couldn’t just let a universe die before it began and-”

Oh- Oh! His ghostling (and his grand-ghostlings it sounded like) had claimed his first universe! He could put off these time knots, this was a grand milestone for any Ancient, nevermind such a primordial force as one of theirs.

And this is how a DC world came into being with humans evolving with more avian traits. Like wings. And claws. Look, Dan thought it’d be funny if they gave baby humanity wings and Ellie started rambling about how much farther they could travel if they had them and Danny thought it could be cool. Oh well, time to keep an eye on their itty baby world now…