Gilda / Sytiha
The All-Mother Gilda of Kyaotia or Sytiha of Bassilua
Gilda & Sytiha have both become names associated with a complicated goddess and history of cross-cultural struggles for almost as long as either name have been tossed around. In turn, they have bonded together, fusing as roughly the same goddess in most forms of depiction and description. Her most prevailing dominant form is that of a golden dragoness, but she has others.
As Gilda
Gilda comes from fables of Titanism, and Kayotia. There, she is the second great creation after the titans, and became the best beacon of hope and creative live beyond their odd purgatory. She was warm, loving, and wanted more company, thanking and wishing the primal god of Yol for more, with promises she'd help nurture them. In turn, Yol helped give her more friends and creatures that became the life of the earth, and she helped foster them with the power of sunlight. She is often spoken of as a wife affectionate to Yol, and the mother of all life, but yet is an odd creation herself with more power than the rest she helped foster. Under this light, some human kayotians have used this mythos to speak down on her as a possible tyrant that stole powers from the main creator, and what later drove him mad. Regardless, Gilda overlapped with other mythos for her symbolic presentation. She became associated with sun, warmth, fertility, and was appreciated and heralded as the patron goddess for Reketta. From the beginning of the mythos, on through, the name of Gilda was always applied to a golden dragon, and was considered the female duality between her and Yol as the main gods. Yol was said to have gone insane, and fallen in some way, leaving the faithful of this mythos to only worship her, or turn away such stories for a different "truth". She was less seen as a tangible and real god, with more focus placed on ideas of other realities and dreamings more than seeing their patron goddess. Her image still remained prominent across various Kayotian and Reketta ideas, such as: her face on a coin, sun charms with written prayers to her, or - akin to the figures of real-life Maneki-Neko charm- a fat gold statue of her being seen as good luck or healthy hatchlings.
As Sytiha
Sytiha was likely around for a marginally longer period in earlier developed and feuding human societies on Basillua. Its is believed this, and their more spiritually devoted attitude, is why Sytiha has had a more "physical" even if changing presence on the land, and in the Ezqotia line of mythos and reasoning. However, her story is less consistent. Depicted often as a golden woman, golden rabbit, or golden dragon, often perpetually pregnant in all forms. Regardless, she is considered to be the god of fertility first, and warmth and sunlight second, with agriculture, fire, even art playing into effect as a third most priority. By merit of a small minority, she is also a demonic force of bad lust, creation of monsters, or a voracious eater that devours things in either fire or literal consumption. It is said by some that Sytiha is the maker of men and monster alike, and gave birth to even other gods like Maysla, and the mother that would eventually "consume" the worship of her daughter godess Perfiaat. Essentially she is the symbol and embodiment of compassion, artistry, motherhood, and sun across most of those that worshiped her. It is said in this mythos that she is too brightly golden to look at, and too fiery to touch.Physical Description
General Physical Condition
As often as the Sytiha myth portrays it, she is often impregnated, though its unsure if this is more aesthetic or if she's really always letting out a new being. Sometimes at different phases, she seems fairly normal, thin, and majestic. It was often said that no matter her representing species, or the onlooker's sexual orientation, one that saw her in tangible form either went blind, or left their spouse over newfound love. Tales were told of a woman in her likeness mascaraing around royalty, sparking ire or even war for how infatuated people were over her.
Though being the celebrator of arts, vanity, and even harvest, she's also had her moments of losing such elegant reputation, with some cities feeding more of her ego or sacrifices on whim. During the short era of taur cities, she was over-devouring its very people on mass, and being thanked and known locally only for food and wine by their agricultural methods. This caused her to be seen as a dragon so swollen, that at times she'd have to regenerate a splitting stomach, and leaving some Reketta trader tourists to question their faith when this was their chance to see a 'tangible Gilda' - though this also just made others of faith just think she was just transitioning her body to become more like the sun.
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