As the wife of Bel she can be associated with Ishtar for Assyrians and Babylonians, with Astarte for Semites, and with Asherah for Philistines in this sense Belili can also be associated with sacred prostitution and human sacrifice (of children, by fire). The Canaanites called her Baalat or Baalit, the wife and female counterpart of Baal. She was later included in the Babylonian pantheon with the name of Belili or Belit-ili (also spelled Belet-ili), acquiring in some time a much higher status as the wife of Bel (the Assyrian and Babylonian equivalent to Baal). 'Belili' was first a Sumerian minor goddess called Gesht-inanna, sister of Dumuzi, and wife of Nin-gishzida (the door keeper of An). Went the man who engendered them was about to die, they surrounded his bed waiting for the moment during which they could take their father's soul, impeding his travel to the Underworld, and making of him an errant spirit, feared by all living people. They were engendered during a men sleep with Lilitu or one of her demon servants. In Akkadian mythology they were a race of monstrous and faceless demons that destroyed all that they could capture. The ghostly version of the succubus is the soul of a young woman who died in or near a lake (many of these rusalki were murdered by their lovers), and came to haunt that lake this undead rusalka is not particularly malevolent, and will be allowed to die in peace if her death is avenged.Īllu are the offspring of Succubi. She corresponds to the Scandinavian and German Nixie. Men who were seduced by her died in her arms, and in some version her laugh can also cause death. In Slavic mythology 'Rusalka' was a female ghost, water nymph or succubus-like demon who lived in a lake. People feel pressure on their chest, and some people report that they observed Mara laying on their chest, sometimes choking their necks, and mostly inducing sleep paralysis. 'Mara' is the name of a fabulous ogress who hags people when sleeping. Men and also mothers feared the attack of the lilin, because they were also said to kidnap children, like Lilith. They are demons, with their function being that of a succubus. Jewish mothers believed Lilith would come to take their children away and eat them.Īccording to Jewish folklore, the 'lilin' are the daughters of Lilith and Adam, engendered while she was his wife. A demon-woman who hunts men, seduces them and drains their life with a kiss. In both Islamic and Jewish myths however, she is a succubus. When putting forward the need for art, it had hoped to express the loss of lives and the element characteristics of weirdness, madness, and paranoia.Īccording to the requirements, we set the fashion theme as a bridal patchwork doll and the wheelchair theme as a sewing machine and designed the first version of the sketch.Lilith has many origins. As long as you sew the objects of the person you want on it and feed it with your own life, you will be able to imprison that person's soul on the doll forever. The inspiration of the Sculptor's costume "Succubus" comes from the patchwork dolls in the folklore of Southern Europe. The overall shape of the costumes depends on the region and culture and chooses different dolls made of any materials - cloth, wood, and metal. People extract toys from the Surprise Box and then start to tell stories related to the toys. The theme of the entire Essence comes from the Surprise Box game. Ghost particles float around her, and her gown and wheelchair all glow an eerie purple.Ĭoncept / Design Notes Design Idea Plans The statues have cage bodies with other porcelain body parts as well as many pink roses. Her chisel is now a pair of metal scissors. A spool of white thread replaces her IV bag. A silver sewing machine replaces her sculpting block on the armrest with a patterned cloth underneath it. Her wheelchair is a mainly grey throne with a purple cushion on the backrest. A circlet of purple roses adorns her hair, to which a torn ivory veil is pinned. A delicate ivory lace choker circles her throat. Galatea wears a pale ivory wedding gown with a very low sweetheart neckline adorned with dull magenta and purple roses as well as stitched with matching lace, revealing her empty ribcage, elbow-length ruffled, layered sleeves, a fitted bodice, and a long skirt of haphazard patchwork ivory lace and pearls over a simple white skirt, which sweeps her feet. Her chest has rotted to nothing more than an empty ribcage. A small, budding, pale purple blossom blooms on her left cheek, and a matching crescent scar scores her forehead. Her hair is now a pale platinum blonde, tied into a bun with two side bangs hanging loosely down, framing her face. She wears black eyeliner, dark brown eyeshadow, and black lipstick. SUCCUBUS IN JAPANESE SKINGalatea has pale ivory skin and empty, hollow brown eyes.
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