Tsuki-Yomi Base Card Art - Nestor Celario Jr

Perna Studios is very excited to announce our very first trading card set entitled Classic Mythology (for release in April of 2012). This set will focus on 6 timeless Classic Mythologies that we have all come to love and enjoy during our lifetime. The mythologies spotlighted in this set are Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic, Japanese and Hindu. We have an impressive list of artists involved on this set working on both base/promo cards and sketch cards.



pernastudios.deviantart.com



PLEASE, NEGATIVE CRITIQUES ARE NOT WELCOME. THESE ARE ARTISTS INTERPRETATIONS. DESCRIPTIONS ARE BASED ON VARIOUS STORIES THAT ALL DIFFER FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. THANK YOU.



This awesome art of the Japanase Moon God Tsuki-Yomi is created by the very talented artist Nestor Celario Jr. This beautiful art will be a base card in our Classic Mythology card set.


Tsukiyomi (Tsukuyomi) - Japanese Mythology - was the moon god in Shinto and Japanese mythology. The name Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto is a combination of the Japanese words for "moon; month" (tsuki) and "to read; to count" (yomu). Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto was the second of the "three noble children" born when Izanagi-no-Mikoto, the god who created the first land, Onogoro-shima, was cleansing himself of his sins while bathing himself after escaping the underworld and the clutches of his enraged dead wife, Izanami-no-Mikoto. Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto was born when he washed out of Izanagi-no-Mikoto's right eye. After climbing a celestial ladder, Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto lived in the heavens, also known as Takamagahara, with his sister Amaterasu Omikami, the sun goddess. Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto angered Amaterasu Omikami when he killed Uke Mochi, the goddess of food. Amaterasu Omikami once sent Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto to represent her at a feast presentei by Uke Mochi. The goddess made the food by turning to the ocean and spitting out a fish, then facing the forest and game came out of her mouth, and finally turned to a rice paddy and coughed up a bowl of rice. Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto was utterly disgusted by the fact that, although it looked exquisite, the meal was made in a disgusting manner, and so he killed her. Soon, Amaterasu Omikami learned what happened and she was so angry that she refused to ever look at Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto again, forever moving to another part of the sky. This is the reason that day and night are never together.


jesterretsej.deviantart.com