hemipelagicdredger:elodieunderglass:shanlonwrites:signorformica:Apep or Apophis, an ancient Egyptian
hemipelagicdredger:elodieunderglass:shanlonwrites:signorformica:Apep or Apophis, an ancient Egyptian demon in the form of a snake. Illustration by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois, published in ‘Pantheon Egyptien’ by Jean-François Champollion, 1823.@elodieunderglass horrible thing with legs? yeeeeeeesss technically it certainly is! But I feel weird saying it! I feel like #horrible things with legs are somehow aberrations or anomalies, while this seems perfectly reasonable. I cannot explain this instinct any further, but I’m going to make a new tag just to cover my bases.@abookofcreatures -- source link