Saturday, June 23, 2012

Tefnut


Sooooo, apparently there is not much in the way of violent storms in Egypt, which is in the Sahara Desert. Soooo, the Egyptians did not have much in the way of storm deities.

I did find one, who looks just like Bast, Sekhmet, and a score of others, and her name is Tefnut, with a long u sound, like the "oo" in boot. However, she was not a warrior deity, more like a low ranking, benign, filling-in-the-gap-cause-we-forgot-to-have-a-deity-for-this kind of goddess.

So, I found this artwork of, I don't know, Sekhmet again? But since they are all lion headed goddesses and i needed something fearsome, I am using this artwork.

And, since Tefnut is not a warrior deity, as a Wizard101 card for the school of Storm, she offers her blessings on the attacks of Storm Wizards by slapping a trap on their enemies, which would be cumulative with windstorm. Yes, this means that Storm Wizars would be super-duper-powerful.

I imagine the animation for this would be Tefnut riding into the dueling circle on the back of her lion, and twirling her mighty staff to cast a trap on each enemy.

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