Out of the mouth of babes, redux

[dreamer_easy]

(Click for larger image.)

"ppeiy. K.A.O. GOD IN HEVIN! GOD IN HEVIN! WE ALL LOVE YOU SO! & WE ALL LOVE YOU'RE SON, JESUS! WE PRAY (mite not be rite) FOR LOVE!"

At first I thought "ppeiy" might be an inverted "yippee!", but I think it's actually a stab at "pray" or "prayer".


Detail from obverse (click for entire image).

The Deity is here represented (I think) as a robed and bearded eye, brandishing what appear to be magic wands. Lines are coming out of the eye, probably in imitation of the dotted lines used in comics to indicate what someone is looking at.

Comments

[cryptile.livejournal.com]

. . . at the risk of sounding rude towards an enthusiastic and whimsical display of childhood piety, that depiction of God is the freakin' scariest thing I've seen all day. Mostly just that one, staring, bearded eye.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I do seem to have been precociously Lovecraftian.

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

you know, if you look at that eye as being in profile rather than staring straight ahead, it looks a little bit like the kansas state jayhawker icon. or the earlier cartoon forms of heckle and jeckle.

...you didn't happen to study the eye of horus as a child, did you? ;)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

There is a certain beakiness to the eye. I think my Egyptology phase was a bit later, though. :-)

[purplepooka.livejournal.com]

Just wondering, was this early theological interest brought out by family, school, church or TV?
I remember drawing some pretty weird stuff at hebrew school. The blue and purple pencils were nice and needed to be used, and it's not my fault giraffes and elephants aren't actually those colours. I distinctly remember being laughed at by the kids and thought slightly disturbed and possibly heretical by the Rabbi's wife. She probably thought that drawing the animals inhabiting the ark in surreal colours was promoting the theory of evolution.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain both Torah and Talmud are silent on the subject of purple giraffes.

In my own case, I suspect Sunday school of some kind. I'll have to quiz my parents.

[purplepooka.livejournal.com]

This was a place where they said prayers and buried books with Hebrew writing in if somebody had accidentally put a book with English writing in on top of them. I'm sure they could find a reason for purple giraffes to represent a heresy if they really put their minds to it.
When I was about 9, the same rabbi's wife told my mother she had to get rid of the radio, the TV and any magazines lying around the place, because something had been giving me terrible ideas about being a feminist. We laughed all the way home.