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Dark Serpent in Bioluminescent Waters

A watercolor painting depicts a large, dark-scaled serpent emerging from swirling, bioluminescent purple waters in a cavernous setting with Egyptian-style hieroglyphics on the stone wall behind it.

The giant serpent Apep with obsidian scales coiling through the churning Duat river, bioluminescent purple light from the underworld waters, watercolor painting with granulating washes and a palette of indigo and neon purple, portrait See more

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