The God of DARK LAUGHTER I | 2018
This series of illustrations is based on three themes extract from the story. These three themes are religious, suspense and detective. Each theme will have three illustration.
Bloody Lake
Over the long millennia since the heyday of ancient Urartu,
the Aiites had developed a complicated physical discipline,
a sort of jujitsu of calisthenics of murder,
which they chiefly employed
in a ruthless hunt of followers of Ye-Heh.
Desert Mural
The laughing followers of baboon-headed ye-heh
created a sacred burlesque, mentioned by
Pausanias and by one of the travelers in Plutarch's dialogue
"on the passing of the Oracles,"
to express their mockery of life, death,
and all human aspirations.
Inside the book
"in the field of inquiry into the beliefs of the ancient,
largely unknown peoples referred to
conjecturally today as promo-Urartians."
The reference lay buried in column dense with
comparisons among various
bits of obsidian and broken bronze.
