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Major Gods - Zeus (2011)

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This is a sketch I made of Zeus, the Major God of Structure, back in January 2011 during a trip to Austria.  It is part of a series of sketches I made of the 10 Major Gods of the Russiac Pantheon from my Fantasy Universe.  You can think of the Major Gods as "chairmen" or "CEOs" of the gods and goddesses that govern specific domains of nature.  I made a Major God for each of the planets in our solar system, plus the Sun and Pluto.

Zeus (representing the planet Jupiter) is the Major God of Structure, which means he is the highest ranking deity that oversees how different things are organized in nature.  Various fields that fall underneath his rule are hierarchies, categories, governmental structures, grammatical structures, and mathematics.  He is often associated with monarchies and civilization, but those are actually complex fields that involve a good number of deities, some under his control and some under the control of his colleagues (especially Venusi and Sage).  Zeus is also the chairman of the "Outer" Major Gods, which include himself, Typhon, Gaia, Poseidon, and Hades.  This makes him one of the two highest ranking deities in the Russiac Pantheon, together with Helios.  Zeus resides in a field of black holes and wormholes (known as the "Maw") in an isolated part of the universe.  There he gazes upon all the dimensions of my Fantasy Universe with his colossal eye, and ensures that all laws and divine acts are applied to their proper realms.  Although most of the actual sorting is done by his subordinates in the Maw, he performs the most important jobs himself using his massive hands of dark matter.

You may notice that in this almost-four year old picture, Zeus is labeled as the Major God of "Civilization."  He actually started out back in 2005 as the Major God of Monarchies and Dark Matter, but as my Fantasy Universe evolved and I learned more about how things work in the real world, I began assigning "top tier" domains to the Major Gods and deemed monarchies way too specific for Zeus' role.  He later became the Major God of Hierarchies, and then the Major God of Civilization.  However, 2014 me recognizes that civilizations are actually social constructs that are just glorified populations, and so civilizations technically would fall under Venusi's domain (ecology).  I thus backtracked to "hierarchies" and made Zeus the Major God of Structure, which is something separate from ecology and does not fall under the domains of any other Major God.  Zeus' influence over dark matter was dropped at some point during the last couple of years, as Helios' domain over matter really should include dark matter rather than having Zeus just arbitrarily also oversee dark matter in addition to his other duties.  His past association with dark matter is why he lives in a cluster of black holes.  As you can see, Zeus' role has undergone a lot of change!

This picture illustrates my continued trouble with scanning pages from sketchbooks.  Normally, this amount of shadows would be a great frustration for me, but I actually like how they emphasize Zeus' eye, so I accepted them this time around.

Zeus (c) Me
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