Varkadevi Wrote:In the distant past; and now more recently I have been somewhat drawn to and have encountered the Spiny, whiptail Shadows and while I have seen one or two pieces of artwork pertaining to them (Mostly Archer's portraits, an old image, and the OKA entrance page.) I have not been able to find much about their culture personally..but.. I've been getting the impression that they especially are rather elusive, and subtle in their appearances.
The idea of an over-arching shadow culture, even for shadows with similar forms, is pretty much bound to be false. For example, I have distinct memories of a progenitor shadow that had myriad types of dark entities working under it. But our culture was relatively homogeneous. Conversely, I also have memories of interacting with "wild" shadows that were all very different, even though some of them had almost identical forms to shadows working under said shadowdad.
Also, all those pictures are pictures of Archer.
Quote:To clarify, I've noted that they have the following characteristics: Androgynous humanoid shape, Whiplike tail with a barbed tip like an arrowhead(the source of the stereotypical "Devil tail" I'd imagine), Often but not always varying amounts of "Spines/quills" along their head, shoulders, and spinal area most commonly, and occasionally functional bat-like wings
That's a very broad net, despite how specific that form is, due to aforementioned variance in shadows. At this point, when characterizing an individual shadow, I'd honestly recommend focusing on other entities it has ties to, if any, unusual behavior, and unique body odor
Quote:Primarily I'm hoping to hear from anyone who has past experiences with their kind and perhaps information about their culture. I suspect they may have some "ties" to another type of Shadow, the sort that resembles a wispy, hooded "Grim Reaper" sans scythe.
As I said above, the problem with this is it literally could be any random bunch of shadows. That's the flaw with relying on visual identifiers like form when discussing shadows.
Quote: So that being said, it makes sense to me that a Shadow would not necessarily require the light-spectrum vision that other spirits have.. very interesting stuff to mull over eh?
Shadows do not use the same "light-spectrum vision" that other spirits do, no.
Quote:Actually the reason I brought this up is because for a long time I gravitated towards dark/demonic type
I fail to see what demonic entities have to do with shadows, other than the fact that shadows are superficially ooky-spooky, and demons are ooky-spooky.
Quote: recently realized that my personal energy-system may be being actively suppressed by some beings I've been dealing with..hence not fully making the identification as a Shadow.
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I have it on decent authority, that spiritually speaking, my system is pretty badly wrecked. Almost astonishingly so. Despite this, I still knew I was shadow. Browsing through your post history, you've definitely been more active in pursuing energy work than me, far more active. I really do not understand how you would not notice that you were shadow after what you've done long before now. In energetic terms, being shadow is a pretty base component of what you are. The only comparison I can make is having a gluten allergy all your life, getting sick every time you eat bread, but feeling wonderful whenever you don't, and never noticing.
That being said, if you think you are making progress, you should probably keep looking at this in more detail.
Quote:I recently have been working on a sort of "portrait" of what my soul "feels" like via the phantom limbs I feel and my own intuition..which I've mistakenly ignored in lieu of external sources for quite some time. The end-results so far are rather similar to the Spiny Shadows that I've met, with some perceived differences I cannot yet account for. If I might ask, do you ever feel any spines/phantom-limbs that corroborate with those images, skorpio?
Note: other entities can have a similar phantom limb structure to shadows. The most important part of classifying something as a shadow is the type of gunk it's made of.
I hate using the word energy in this context. I refuse to do so.