Something kinda silly

[azurite]

Do you know the bathtub analogy about how one's brain works? An idea pops into your head, but there's others. They all pop, bubbling up and disappearing as quickly as they come. So my bubbles recently went something like this:

Christmas... Christmas pictures to show... oh look, that Sailor Christmas I made with the Sailor X 2 Generator from SailorGalleries.com ... crap, no PlayFKiss on here. What? No PlayFKiss or DirectKiss for Mac? Damn... ooh, UltraKiss! Kinda slow, but it works. Ooh, new updates on the SailorGalleries site... not for the generator KiSS doll, but oh well. Ooh look, this artwork by RainbowMoon is nice... hey, who's that? She's new. Oh, a fan-senshi. They're all right. Hey waitasec, I've seen that glyph before. Who IS she?

Here's the fanart that started it (or rather, ended it). Another fanart site calls her "Persephone," but I've never known Persephone to have a glyph of her own. Planets and moons, yes, but I don't think there *is* a planet/moon/asteroid named Persephone (please correct me if I'm wrong). But that sigil on her head- I *HAVE* seen that before, but I can't remember what it's called! I know it's not Vesta, Juno, Pallas, or Ceres, nor is it Chiron. And I know all the other planetary symbols, including the "alternates" for Uranus and Pluto, the "lost planets" and the few moons of various planets that have symbols. So what the heck is that one!? Can anyone tell me? (And show me another site that backs it up?)

This artist has some killer fanart of TONS of fan-senshi, including "remixes" of the Witches 5 as Senshi, the next (several) generation(s) of Sailor Senshi AFTER Sailor Chibi Moon, the Opposito Senshi from the Another Story RPG (with new names, but generally the same uniform), among others.

ETA: Linked to the right fanart, since SailorGalleries has been a bit restructured. Now everything is on SailorMoonFanart.Net.

Comments

[bouncing-chibi.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's gonna bug me. I've seen it before, too.
http://www.ericfrancis.com/issues/0308/segami/legend.gif Not these... dammit. :P Thanks Andi haha, now I'll be stuck on that.

[bouncing-chibi.livejournal.com]

And for some reason I want to say Hathor, but uh... i don't know anything about planets and whatnot, so I have no idea if Hathor was a name of a star or an asteroid or what have you...

[bouncing-chibi.livejournal.com]

heh... I think I'm thinking of Hathor only because of the look of the symbol, looks like Hathor's horns. But uh yeah :D Haha, do they name moons or asteroids (or any others) after anything other than Roman gods and so forth?

[azurite]

No, I don't think so. My first thought was actually Vesta, but unless they've changed the glyph in the past 10 years (which I doubt, since almost all the glyphs are based on Greek or Roman symbols found in ancient manuscripts), it's not her.

I totally remember seeing that symbol on something astrology-related years and years ago, but the thing that it was on is probably lost in a big cardboard box sitting in my garage back in the States. :P

It looks VERY much like some sort of female symbol, but all my searches for various female goddesses turned up NOTHING. The fanartist drew heavily on astronomy for their names and things, so I really want to know where they got the symbols!

I remember Vulcan looking like a diamond with two short lins sticking out either side on the left and right (but they don't go through the diamond), but I haven't seen that glyph again. Here's another page I found with OTHER symbols, but none for what we're looking for. I know it's out there! (Maybe if it's in some font, then it has a character name?)

[katiat325.livejournal.com]

well, there is an asteroid named persephone... but its astrological symbol doesn't match the one on the forehead. http://www.treehousemountain.com/anames.htm
and wikipedia doesnt show its symbol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/399_Persephone

[azurite]

Yeah, all my research has been saying that Persephone either has no symbol or, as the site you found shows, it has TWO (Proserpina being the Roman name for Persephone), but neither matches the character in question. But I know I've seen that symbol before... maybe in some of my Wicca book or something (in addition to a paper I saw once before, which is probably buried among my things back in CA). Does it look at all familiar to you?

[katiat325.livejournal.com]

yeah it does, that's why i responded. i searched, but i only had 15 minutes before my final, so i gave up. you'll see it again some day.

[azurite]

^^ Thanks for taking the time out to check it out.