Calling you out, Zegh. Prepare yourself for the END

[RageBeoulve]

To pigue your interest, their name translates into "the rubber people". Why did they call themselves the rubber people? Nobody knows.

At least it's better than "the people", which everyone fuckin calls themselves back in tribal days
To this day, Norwegians refer to themselves as "nordmenn" - north-men, people from up north.

I've seen those debates of wether or not Olmecs were black, cus of those statues. I think people are being simplistic, and that facial features vary a lot more than people give it credit for.
Look at Björk for example, she looks Chinese, but is completely Icelandic. Just so happen to have beefy lid-flaps

I think maybe in that culture they may have valued full lips and such as the epitome of health. Big stone heads aside, the Olmec were pretty weird and amazing for other things too.

[ZEGH8578]

Checking some out now

I always get stuck on ancient artwork. We're used to all these young talents on DeviantArt and such, that are able to keenly observe and detailedly replicate, but this skill has always been around. Even cave-painting is often surprisingly accurate (whenever it's not being symbolic)

On top of that, I love masks


Often these masks seem to have something... sinister about them...

[RageBeoulve]

Well fundamentally a mask is used to hide something, yes?

[ZEGH8578]

Well fundamentally a mask is used to hide something, yes?

Hide or BE something you aren't
In ritualism, I think that is the most important thing, you "take on" elements outside you, that are in the mask, like fierceness or intimidation - or in this mask's case - sadness?

In the comic I'm working on, masks are gonna be used ritually, as a "throw back" to these ancient civilizations and their rituals
There will be a lot of focus on "everything was better in the old days", where "the old days" is seriously old, like, stone-age, as well as opposing sentiments of course - nothing was "better" in the past, especially since the past inevitably becomes the present.

Like Anton Chigurh says - "if the rule you followed brought you to this, what good was the rule?"
I know he meant it in some insane psychotic way, but I like it, as it shows that dreaming of "the past" is futile, because the conditions of that past brought us right to this very present :V

[RageBeoulve]

Well fundamentally a mask is used to hide something, yes?

Hide or BE something you aren't
In ritualism, I think that is the most important thing, you "take on" elements outside you, that are in the mask, like fierceness or intimidation - or in this mask's case - sadness?

In the comic I'm working on, masks are gonna be used ritually, as a "throw back" to these ancient civilizations and their rituals
There will be a lot of focus on "everything was better in the old days", where "the old days" is seriously old, like, stone-age, as well as opposing sentiments of course - nothing was "better" in the past, especially since the past inevitably becomes the present.

Like Anton Chigurh says - "if the rule you followed brought you to this, what good was the rule?"
I know he meant it in some insane psychotic way, but I like it, as it shows that dreaming of "the past" is futile, because the conditions of that past brought us right to this very present :V

A lot of early cultures had mask use for ritual sacrifice, war, public self-abasement, etc. Yes, I can see that usually they used a mask to deal with things which are difficult to accept as an individual.