quarta-feira, 1 de junho de 2011

Behemoth, The Evil Loaf of Bread

There are many images of the biblical character Behemoth, who was challenged and won over by Leviathan in the Book of Job, such as William Blake's:


In the biblical world, Behemoth lived on firm ground, Leviathan lived in the underworld waters of the abyss, and the ruling of Behemoth followed the single principle of "no rules, no laws". In this TV show, however, Behemoth is a petite-size pet hippo who theoretically "belongs" to Predator of the Psyche and Sophisticated Pleasures of the Artificial Needs.
But Behemoth doesn't belong to anybody. He would rather think his owners belong to him, but really, in his mind, no one belongs to anybody, period.
DESCRIPTION
Aside from "The Book of Job" and Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth is also partly inspired in Kozo, but his body is a loaf of bread to indicate Hobbes' heretic underlines and his paws are rollerblade wheels
just for the sake of surrealism.
BEHAVIOR
Behemoth, the Evil Loaf of Bread, is, above all other characteristics, a crazy hippo. He will do whatever he wants and the only answer he will ever give anyone is “No say no!” and continue rolling around doing whatever he feels like doing. He´s often moody, pissed off and mischievous, and occasionally might also say "fuck you!" to who or what he considers to be an interesting target to annoy or an obstacle in his way. Behemoth is absolutely sure he is more powerful than the human couple Predator of the Psyche and Sophisticated Pleasures of the Artificial Needs, and that he is the sovereign source of importance not only in Kingdom of Darkness , but of existance as a whole.

8 comentários:

Anônimo disse...

A pet who owns his owners... This is really interesting! MV

Paola Ranova disse...

Thanks ;-) It´s interesting and common, isn't it? I know a lot of pets who probably think like this. And the whole possession issue of owning live beings is kind of crazy, in my opinion. But... since Behemoth is VERY crazy... :-)

Clarafiesta disse...

:) I love this craziness!

Paola Ranova disse...

;-)

Matthias disse...

My favorite character, from the beginning!!! It must be awesome to be an EVIL loaf of bread...

Paola Ranova disse...

LOL! I know you like him ;-)

Anônimo disse...

Really siple, but also very, very complex! Liked it very much. The way we can take complex ideais out of simple, ordinary objects is just a perdect gift from nature. Thanks for sharing this with us and make us deepely think about what we usually face or even used to face in inspite of, in that moment, not realizing what, actually, we were facing.

Paola Ranova disse...

@Anônimo, thanks for the love :-) this is really special <3