"Efreet" by Juan C. Alvarez-Prieto

Woah woah woah... since when do any of the five types of djinn care about honor? The efreeti are tricksters who manipulate wishes, not honorable beings! For instance, if I flat out wished for a horse, an efreet would probably give me a dead horse, a drawing of a horse, etc.! Honor plays no part with the djinn, for they all love to manipulate! They are liars, cheaters, hypocrites, thieves, murderers...... all the efreeti care about is their own gain. Yes.

But I like the picture! If only he had more fire, being an efreet and all...

Juan C. Alvarez-Prieto replies: "Ah, but those are D&D efreet you mean... The efrits of Arabian myth were earthly creatures, and followers of the Prophet (which djinn were not)... thanks for the comment!"

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> "Woah woah woah... since when do any of the five types of
djinn care about honor? The efreeti are tricksters who
manipulate wishes, not honorable beings! For instance, if I
flat out wished for a horse, an efreet would probably give
me a dead horse, a drawing of a horse, etc.! Honor plays no
part with the djinn, for they all love to manipulate! They
are liars, cheaters, hypocrites, thieves, murderers......
all the efreeti care about is their own gain. Yes.

But I like the picture! If only he had more fire, being an
efreet and all..." >

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The reply from Juan C. Alvarez-Prieto is:

"Ah, but those are D&D efreet you mean... The efrits of
Arabian myth were earthly creatures, and followers of the
Prophet (which djinn were not)... thanks for the comment!"

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No, I am note talking about D&D nor "Arab myth." I'm talking about a creature in the Hindu religion. They were earthly creatures indeed, but you have to remember that this isn't D&D (which says water and earth are super different, for instance) and that fire is actually very earthly thing, actually, in that it isn't really an invention of man.

If you've ever wondered, this is why efreet (efrit, ifreet, afrit, etc.) can be spelled so many ways in enlgish; Sanskrit (one of the base languages for Hinduism) is tough to translate.

Juan C. Alvarez-Prieto replies: "(sigh) I'd tried to resist the temptation to turn my gallery into a mythology discussion forum, but here goes: efrit and djinn do come from Arab-Turkish myth; they were adopted by the Hindu when muslims invaded the country during the middle ages. The division between efrit and djinn was not elemental (thus the D&D reference), but religious; according to legend, Suleyman encased all djinn (or dao) in the world in bottles for refusing to follow the Prophet. The djinn-like efrit repented and accepted to submit to the laws of the Koran. I took these interpretations from traditional Indo-Arabic sources such as the Bhagavad Gita, and so far hevn't been able to find any reference to djinn belonging to air and efrit to fire."

I was under the impression we're here to discuss art. So that's what I'll stick to.
Great stuff, I can really believe it's expression and posture (as much as I can see of it)

He's sexy and hot.