March 2022, Day 5

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!

May the magic be with us all!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So, I've written the first draft of the exorcism scene, complete with divine (or rather angelic) intervention and bastardized Sumerian mythology and stuff. I foresee many, many corrections, but at least it is done now, and the rest of the chapter is just tying up threads. I'm very relieved.

[artemis10002000]

That's something to celebrate! Definitely sounds like a very work-intense scene, it is good to be past that.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, YES!!!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Very impressive to have the draft done already. It must have been tricky. I had to look Sumerian mythology up to even know what it is:) Wow. You plunged right in and worked through the exorcism! Good job.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've always had a great interest in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia and such realms, but this is the first time I actually used something of it in a story. Of course, what I did with it would probably get me burned at the stake as a heretic — a good thing I've secularized my relationship with the Creator decades ago. We get on just fine without the Church interfering. *g*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Why is the idea of bastardized Sumerian mythology so interesting?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Because I like Sumerian mythology, perhaps?
Nah, it actually came from the fact that the main adversary in "Blood Ties" was a demon by the name of Astaroth. The name is actually a female plural, originating in the Sumerian goddess Inanna, who later became Ishtar, then Astarte, the plural being used because of her multiple statues in various temples. The Hebrew Bible considered all pagan gods and goddesses as demons or somesuch, and when it was translated into Greek (I think?) the translator didn't realize that "Astaroth" meant the goddesses, in plural (I think the singular is Astoreth, but I'm not sure). So, it was transferred into Greek (?) as a single male demon, and his career as the boss of 40 demonic legions in Hell started from there. *g*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Huh. Very interesting.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

"Bastardized Sumerian mythology and stuff"... I like :) I have a habit of doing that myself for whatever history/mythilogy/whatever I am playing with (some of my fandoms like Stargate and Merlin, it's pretty mandatory!)

Congrats on your progress!