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crosspost: The Krayt Dragon Jaw
To continue my commitment to crosspost from tumblr to dreamwidth.
I was mostly inspired to come back to the Star Wars fandom by Lectorel, Fialleril and co's semi collective imagining of Tatooine's slave community and slave culture.
And here is a tiny contribution (If I may) that popped into my head:
One one of the symbols often used in the slave culture iconography is called the Krayt Dragon Jaw, looking something like this:
Embroidered on clothes or painted on everyday objects it looks like the top one, a straight line lined with smaller lines and dots. When painted on someone's face, it looks like the bottom one, an arch across the forehead with hooks coming under the eyes, again lined with a series of smaller lines and dots.
It's a protection symbol often used with small children or people about to do something dangerous. It's both a way to recommend someone into the Elder Sister's watch and to pray that the person themself be filled with the strength of a Krayt Dragon.
(The first few times Anakin podraced, he wore a Krayt Dragon Jaw painted on his forehead. By TPM it was probably embroidered somewhere on his clothing)
I was mostly inspired to come back to the Star Wars fandom by Lectorel, Fialleril and co's semi collective imagining of Tatooine's slave community and slave culture.
And here is a tiny contribution (If I may) that popped into my head:
One one of the symbols often used in the slave culture iconography is called the Krayt Dragon Jaw, looking something like this:
Embroidered on clothes or painted on everyday objects it looks like the top one, a straight line lined with smaller lines and dots. When painted on someone's face, it looks like the bottom one, an arch across the forehead with hooks coming under the eyes, again lined with a series of smaller lines and dots.
It's a protection symbol often used with small children or people about to do something dangerous. It's both a way to recommend someone into the Elder Sister's watch and to pray that the person themself be filled with the strength of a Krayt Dragon.
(The first few times Anakin podraced, he wore a Krayt Dragon Jaw painted on his forehead. By TPM it was probably embroidered somewhere on his clothing)