[HoneyBadger]

Kristoffer-I agree with you, gods aren't very dramatic in their original forms, taken as a whole. Usually just humans written large, or strange, or just deformed in some way. Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" had some great insights into that trend.

I understand that having something with a history behind it is ofcourse often preferrable to something made up, but I've always been of the opinion that there wasn't anything wrong with making things up, either. Especially if it helps tell a good story. That's what myths are, afterall, good stories that people believed. So I can appreciate and respect that she's a fine Babylonian icon-and I'm not the one who started this thread, keep in mind-but I can also understand the desire for something greater, weirder, more grand and mysterious and monstrous-to the eyes of our generation, as opposed to an ancient Babylonian native.


Also:
The request was for a less human version of Mother of Serpents, and I think I came up with something suitably inhuman-she's hardly a 'Disneyworld's joke', whatever that's supposed to mean...No mickey mouse ears that I could see? She's animated, true, but it was my reasoning that it'd be better to have something that could easily be transformed into a sprite, than not. Aside from that, Disney's responsible for some of the best animation ever made. So it's hardly an insult to compare an image to Disney's. Comparing real myths to Disney versions is ofcourse another story altogether, but artistically they're one of the highest institutions in animation-and share a great deal of the responsibility for creating-and certainly popularizing-the animation art-form, in the first place.