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The Sun God, The Fun God

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Base card art of the Egyptian Sun God, Ra, for *Pernastudios' sold out Classic Mythology card set.

See their page for the actual card image, including text.


For those who don't know cards and are wondering "what the hell is a 'base card?' ...Base cards are the actual set of cards. The reproduced art you'd buy in packs trying to collect whole sets. The set is a set of base cards.

What I usually draw are sketch cards - the art right on the little 2.5x3.5" cardstock squares. Sketch cards are a kind of incentive, those things you have **:** chance of pulling if you buy packs. "Yay, I pulled original art!"

In the case of this particular set, every purchase includes an entire base set of 30 cards and 1 sketch card along with some other incentives.

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I drew this bad boy on 9x12" bristol board, scanned the inks, printed them onto 8.5x11" cardstock and colored the print. When I was done with markers and gel pens I re-inked the lines (a process I do anyway to add the depth and whatnot). This process keeps me from stressing too much over possible mistakes with markering.

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tl;dr - I drew something I'm proud of for once and got paid for it. Win.
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If religion is the thesis and science is the antithesis, what is the synthesis?
"By measuring the number and luminosity of observable galaxies in the known universe, astronomers put current estimates of the total stellar population at roughly seventy billion trillion."
- Maria Temming, How Many Stars Are There in the Universe?

Eustace: "In our world, a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Ramandu: "Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
- C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, chapter XIV

"The sun? Conscious? How?" 'In a way lower organisms like you have difficulty to grasp. One thought from the source takes longer than a human life. A conversation with other stars takes thousands of your years.' "All the stars are conscious?" A dry laughter resounded. 'Of course. They are the original inhabitants of the cosmos. Without them there would be no organic life, let alone organic consciousness.'
- Elian Lazaro, Elysium

"The proposition is that Sun is a living, conscious being with an intelligence that dwarfs our own. I am not only suggesting that Sun is a large complex system with some form of self-governing intelligence to it, but also that it is a living being, aware of itself and its place in the universe; that it is fully conscious and communicates with other conscious beings at its own level, and other levels; that its consciousness is so far beyond what we enjoy that it could be accorded deity status of a high order, and be recognized as a conscious being by atheists and agnostics, whatever spin they put on it.
As staggering as this proposition might seem, it is hardly novel, and was once held as a near universal belief or understanding in most parts of the globe. It is possible that generations of Neolithic peoples, the ancient Sumerians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Maya, Inca, Aztec, and the ancient Celts and Native Americans were not completely deluded. Perhaps they were right to regard Sun as a living celestial being, rather than view the prime enabler of life-on-Earth as just another random event in the infinity of space, deserving neither credit nor appreciation. We can add the world's 750 million Hindus to the list above, as well as followers of Shinto, the native Japanese religion revering Sun goddess Amaterasu."
- Gregory Sams, Sun of gOd

"The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for the duty of moving the planets, and worthy to become the home of God himself."
- Johannes Kepler, The Harmony of the World

"Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God."
- Michael Shermer's last law

"The Sun is God."
- Joseph Mallord William Turner

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