Just a quick note. I read recently about the Fomorians. Their name is thought to have meant "under the sea", and of course many modern writers have all kinds of ideas about that.
The Fomorians were already in Ireland after the flood, why couldn't it have been their fields and forests that were flooded; this would explain their name somewhat.
Crom and Other Cimmerian Deities
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Posted 06 January 2013 - 12:52 AM
A big impressive mighty Crom ?
I have always imagined the God Crom to be a big giant figure:
about 30 feet tall,
craggy rough features - like he was made from a kind of ancient stone,
with a weird beard of writhing big eyeless wyrms, and a 'bald' head on top.
no clothing or hats needed...because he is a god, and needs no garb, or decorations !
he does not need a weapon...he prefers to crush with his mighty hands,
but, he could hold a huge crude hammer shape made entirely of weird stone ?
[ he would never use or make a big sword... swords are the pathetic new toys of frail humans...Crom prefered the ages when human warriors just used clubs, hammers, spears. ]
> display ideas for model dioramas :
he would look good and impressive standing just behind a 10' tall stone/wood hut
with 1 leg behind it, and other leg in full view, and the frail hut being dwarfed by his massive 30' height.
1 or 2 terrified humans could be fleeing out the hut doorway
and a shaggy dog could be defiantly barking up at the huge looming god ?
he could be wielding his crude stone hammer-thing.
he may be wearing only a crude necklace or belt: made from several human and mountain-lion and horned-bull skulls strung together with strips of bull hide ?
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Crom would only very rarely appear in his real stony-giant form, usually when he is very angry.
he would usually appear stood on the top of a high mountain [ or mount crom ] letting humans view him from a distance... over him raged dark storm clouds, with loud thunder noise blasting from his mouth and an occasional bolt of lightning shooting from his eyes.
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sorry, but crom depicted as a 6 or 7' human form with clothes and sword, slumped on a small throne with his legs wide open... does not impress as a god...and seems a bit dull and wimpy to me.
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> And see the topic link below for more, interesting...
Crom ideas
Crom scuptures
REH Crom quotes
and discussions...
Crom Sculpture...wip
http://www.conan.com...showtopic=10048
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I have always imagined the God Crom to be a big giant figure:
about 30 feet tall,
craggy rough features - like he was made from a kind of ancient stone,
with a weird beard of writhing big eyeless wyrms, and a 'bald' head on top.
no clothing or hats needed...because he is a god, and needs no garb, or decorations !
he does not need a weapon...he prefers to crush with his mighty hands,
but, he could hold a huge crude hammer shape made entirely of weird stone ?
[ he would never use or make a big sword... swords are the pathetic new toys of frail humans...Crom prefered the ages when human warriors just used clubs, hammers, spears. ]
> display ideas for model dioramas :
he would look good and impressive standing just behind a 10' tall stone/wood hut
with 1 leg behind it, and other leg in full view, and the frail hut being dwarfed by his massive 30' height.
1 or 2 terrified humans could be fleeing out the hut doorway
and a shaggy dog could be defiantly barking up at the huge looming god ?
he could be wielding his crude stone hammer-thing.
he may be wearing only a crude necklace or belt: made from several human and mountain-lion and horned-bull skulls strung together with strips of bull hide ?
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Crom would only very rarely appear in his real stony-giant form, usually when he is very angry.
he would usually appear stood on the top of a high mountain [ or mount crom ] letting humans view him from a distance... over him raged dark storm clouds, with loud thunder noise blasting from his mouth and an occasional bolt of lightning shooting from his eyes.
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sorry, but crom depicted as a 6 or 7' human form with clothes and sword, slumped on a small throne with his legs wide open... does not impress as a god...and seems a bit dull and wimpy to me.
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> And see the topic link below for more, interesting...
Crom ideas
Crom scuptures
REH Crom quotes
and discussions...
Crom Sculpture...wip
http://www.conan.com...showtopic=10048
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Posted 06 January 2013 - 09:39 AM
Just a quick note. I read recently about the Fomorians. Their name is thought to have meant "under the sea", and of course many modern writers have all kinds of ideas about that.
The Fomorians were already in Ireland after the flood, why couldn't it have been their fields and forests that were flooded; this would explain their name somewhat.
Cessair was in Eire before the Flood. The Fomorians, not so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessair
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