{"id":1870,"date":"2024-01-02T14:15:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T19:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.semigod.com\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:47:19","slug":"the-double-dagger-semigod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/the-double-dagger-semigod\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DOUBLE DAGGER: SEMIGOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1870\" class=\"elementor elementor-1870\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41f383d3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"41f383d3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55bfae47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55bfae47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"412\" class=\"wp-image-1871\" style=\"width: 444px; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.semigod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/semigod-double-dagger.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>I used this symbol in my art and on this site as a representation of the human experience, at least within my own life and point of view. To me, it represents a cross, a symbol of Christianity and a signifier of good, placed upright. But within it also appears an upside-down, inverted cross, the signifier of evil. Both of these coexist in harmony. Hidden in the negative space are also two letter E&#8217;s facing each other\u2014two Eddys staring at one another. I&#8217;m not a religious person, so the cross, whether upright or upside down, holds no religious significance to me; the two crosses in the icon I use are simply a typographical mark used to indicate a footnote or annotation.<\/p>\n\n<p>Choosing this icon was not thought out at all, and the meaning I&#8217;ve given it was purely retconned after I had picked it as my personal symbol. The creation of my original website, the name &#8220;Semigod,&#8221; and the icon were all last-minute decisions. I had a conversation on a Saturday about calling someone the following Monday for a possible job. That Monday, the person on the phone asked if I had a website where she could see my art. Without skipping a beat, I told her I would have one by Friday. So, I scrambled to put together the first iteration of this site nearly 20 years ago. The site needed a name, and it had to be short, memorable, and easy to spell. That Tuesday, while searching for reference pictures, I found a Chinese website filled with chinese text, but one word in English stood out among them: SEMIGOD. The page was about dramas involving ancient gods or something similar. The name &#8220;Semigod&#8221; bounced around my head all week, and when the time came to choose a name, that word won out.<\/p>\n\n<p>My retcon for the meaning of the word &#8220;Semigod&#8221; now is that it embodies being close to god-like. God represents perfection, and as humans, we could never achieve this. We could only ever reach semi-god status, being as close to perfection as humanly possible.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I came across this icon or why I chose it, but it works now, and it fits.<\/p>\n\n<p>The good within the bad. The bad existing within the good, in harmony.<\/p>\n\n<p>Welcome to my site. Enjoy your stay.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"262\" class=\"wp-image-1868\" style=\"width: 102px; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.semigod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is semigod-tab-big-BLACK-STRIP.png\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>\u2021<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"262\" class=\"wp-image-390\" style=\"width: 684px; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.semigod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/semigod-tab-big-BLACK.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1365194 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1365194\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4eb636 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"b4eb636\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=xqHEPgJ_0U4&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;mute&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used this symbol in my art and on this site as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tbt_post_transparent":"","_tbt_post_title":"","_tbt_post_layout":"","_tbt_post_sidebar_id":"","_tbt_post_content_style":"","_tbt_post_vertical_padding":"","_tbt_post_feature":"","_tbt_post_feature_position":"","_tbt_post_header":false,"_tbt_post_footer":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}