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 Kraytirous wrote:
Remember that the Thousand Sons aren't the only ones with a snake emblem...

Heil Hydra

I never thought of a Hydra as a snake though. Have I been wrong all these years?

A Hydra traditionally has legs, so I wouldn't say you're wrong.

That being said they are often depicted as having serpentine heads, too, so :shrug:.

The Snake however would be an excellent stand in for the Midgard Serpent, traditionally depicted in Norse mythology.

Davor wrote:

 Kraytirous wrote:
Remember that the Thousand Sons aren't the only ones with a snake emblem...

Heil Hydra

I never thought of a Hydra as a snake though. Have I been wrong all these years?

Off topic: The Greeks didn't really have serpents with legs in their mythology. The original art for the hydra looked like a snake with a lot of heads:




It also puts things into perspective regarding the Hercules thing when you realize the Greeks didn't really depict the hydra as a giant monster:

Comonly seen Hydra are lizards not snakes. Even though snakes are lizards to. Meh it's a mythological animal creature. So why even argue about it.

Anyway. I hope this means those Thousand Sons are coming.

 agnosto wrote:

Davor wrote:

 Kraytirous wrote:
Remember that the Thousand Sons aren't the only ones with a snake emblem...

Heil Hydra

I never thought of a Hydra as a snake though. Have I been wrong all these years?

Off topic: The Greeks didn't really have serpents with legs in their mythology. The original art for the hydra looked like a snake with a lot of heads:




It also puts things into perspective regarding the Hercules thing when you realize the Greeks didn't really depict the hydra as a giant monster:

That crab is so playing dirty pool!

Joyboozer wrote:

 agnosto wrote:

Davor wrote:

 Kraytirous wrote:
Remember that the Thousand Sons aren't the only ones with a snake emblem...

Heil Hydra

I never thought of a Hydra as a snake though. Have I been wrong all these years?

Off topic: The Greeks didn't really have serpents with legs in their mythology. The original art for the hydra looked like a snake with a lot of heads:




It also puts things into perspective regarding the Hercules thing when you realize the Greeks didn't really depict the hydra as a giant monster:

That crab is so playing dirty pool!

Took me a minute to see it. What a Ahole, reaching up for a mans jewels like that.

 redleger wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:

Spoiler:

 agnosto wrote:

Davor wrote:

 Kraytirous wrote:
Remember that the Thousand Sons aren't the only ones with a snake emblem...

Heil Hydra

I never thought of a Hydra as a snake though. Have I been wrong all these years?

Off topic: The Greeks didn't really have serpents with legs in their mythology. The original art for the hydra looked like a snake with a lot of heads:




It also puts things into perspective regarding the Hercules thing when you realize the Greeks didn't really depict the hydra as a giant monster:

That crab is so playing dirty pool!

Took me a minute to see it. What a Ahole, reaching up for a mans jewels like that.

Hydra Dominutsus.

A Serpent with legs is a Lindwurm, the Prototype of all Dragons from Western-Germanic Mythology.

Fighting Snakes, Serpents, Lindwurms or Dragons is typical for the Norse- and Western-Germanic Culture circle. Thor/Donar fights Jormungandr/Midgarsormr, Siegfried/Sigurd fights Fafnir. All the english and german medieval tales of heroes fighting Dragons....

Regarding the Call of Chaos painting event on Bolter & Chainsword, Atia said that "this is indeed great for all fans of Tzeentch" when the organizer said that although it starts Sept 15, you can join at any time before the deadline of Dec 15.

So it looks like we will have some of that stuff before Christmas. Nice to have Atia throwing hints around

Midgard serpent is often depicted as a serpent with legs and without encircling the world and long enough to bite it's own tail. Odin threw this son of loki into the sea where it grew..


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1000 sons symbol is pretty spot on

Not only is this epic art and a great teaser, and has Tzeentchy, but Pathro is totally about to devour Liono in the background. Win all around.

No one picked this up last night then?

That's been around for a while... Thanks though.

He did the model justice, I like edit: his head variant more though



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 angelofvengeance wrote:
That's been around for a while... Thanks though.

Oh, I couldn't find a painted copy in this thread - only the sprues. If it's already been posted, apologies!