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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: Duff on February 28, 2018, 02:59:46 PM

Title: Yig symbol
Post by: Duff on February 28, 2018, 02:59:46 PM

What would be the best symbol to use for a Yig worshipper?

Title: Re: Yig symbol
Post by: Dezmond on February 28, 2018, 03:24:45 PM

Two snakes coming together... Facing each other! But they're one. With a sun and a moon below. Black Sun. Black Moon.

(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/a8/34/69a834d12918f915f5a78ab996a283f5.jpg)

Title: Re: Yig symbol
Post by: Duff on February 28, 2018, 03:45:54 PM

 :D I was wondering whether to use the Thulsa Doom symbol.

Title: Re: Yig symbol
Post by: Dezmond on February 28, 2018, 05:34:42 PM

A swift googling of snake worship suggests:-

(http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2016/1/16/e/9/6/e9606562-bc5e-11e5-854b-2068790e6786.jpg)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/87/16/028716b5423da200c5230665c3286ca0.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Bangalore_si0790.jpg/640px-Bangalore_si0790.jpg)

The last appears to show snakes with up to five heads.

Title: Re: Yig symbol
Post by: Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye on March 10, 2018, 12:52:23 AM

Yig, from the Zombie Quadrille...

   https://zombiequadrille.deviantart.com/art/H-P-Lovecraft-Yig-The-Father-of-Serpents-356683579 (https://zombiequadrille.deviantart.com/art/H-P-Lovecraft-Yig-The-Father-of-Serpents-356683579)

(https://img00.deviantart.net/24e4/i/2013/057/0/d/h_p__lovecraft___yig___the_father_of_serpents__by_zombiequadrille-d5wcyt7.jpg)