Derek Leman

@derekleman.bsky.social

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Aspiring Fantasy Author. Realtor in Atlanta. Self-Publishing. Indie Books. Mesopotamia geek. DerekWritesFantasy.com

Image of Nergal, #mesopotamian god of the underworld holding scepter with double lion head and with his foot on a person in the underworld.
An image of the Omega symbol. Found in Mesopotamian images of goddesses.
Image of the goddess Ninhursag, a Sumerian Creatrix.
Image of Nergal, Mesopotamian god of the underworld, instructing a demon in punishing a sinner.
Image in black and white of a young woman crying.
Image of Ninsubur, minister / attendant of the gods. Mesopotamian.
Statue of the demon Pazuzu. Mesopotamian demon.
Close-up detail from art by Felix Ortiz for the upcoming cover of Once Upon a Time in Haral. Shows a young witch in the foreground and a seer coming up in the background. The leg and talons of a griffin also show in the image.
Face of the #mesopotamian demon, Humbaba (aka Huwawa). Formed to resemble animal entrails.
A hand-drawn map of the world my #fantasy stories occupy, a world called Haral.
They goddess Inanna, also known as Ishtar, pictured as a goddess of war
A 20th century photo of the marshlands of Iraq with reed houses in the marsh.
From an ancient cylinder deal, a depiction of the God Adad making weather from the back of his lion-dragon.
Image from Mesopotamia, a god chases a bird-beast with a bow.
Picture of text from a chapter of my fantasy novel in progress.
An ancient boat in front of a temple complex. An artist’s rendering of the ancient city Eridu.
An image of the Babylonian god Marduk with his snake dragon from a cylinder dated to 850 B.C.E.
Scene from a Neo-Assyrian cylinder deal from about 700 B.C.E. Shows a worshipper before the goddess Ishtar.
The lamassu—massive, winged composite creatures with the head of a man and features of a bull or lion
Book cover for Clark Ashton Smith’s The End of the Story. A young man stands in the arch of a doorway in a monastery.
Image of a Mesopotamian-era witch with a lion-dragon behind her and a man in the background walking toward her.