Resurrection at Five Fathoms

COMPLETE TITLE: "I don't always consume the bodies and souls of Russians . . . but when I do, I prefer to ingest 'Spetsnaz!'"

ARTIST: William Louis ("Bill") McDonald Sr.:

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CLIENT: Me. I'm seeking Argonaut-GreyWolf customers seeking to license this image as a political cartoon.

MEDIA: My office supplies, ballpoint pens, a #2 graphite pencil and later completed over the entire month of November and the first half of December of 2021 with more ballpoints, a shit-ton of felt-tip pens, Pilot fine-point pens, oceanic color Rapidograph fine-point pens, black Higgins India ink, ocean-colored Prisma pencils, ocean-colored Prisma markers, markers, more markers, even more markers, watercolor paints and acrylic paints.

SIZE: 10" X 13".

SUBJECT: Disney's 'Pirates of the Caribbean' amalgamation of the legendary 'Flying Dutchman' Dutch Indiaman Galleon's Dutch Captain Hendrick Van der Decken--or Van der Vecken--with earliest 1700s sea legends surrounding the subject of death and drowning at sea, Davy Jones and his hellish locker, plus copious attributes of a Cthulhu-noid cephalopoidal facial features.

YEAR: 2022 (18 March)

INSPIRATIONS: A cosmic daemonic malevolent entity worshipped by cultists, in the shape of a green octopus, dragon, and a caricature of human form along with Van der Vecken and Davy Jones. And last but not least, a Russian, Iranian or Chinese Spetsnaz-trained combat diver.

Davy Jones' Locker is a metaphor for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors and shipwrecks. It is used as a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker).

The origins of the name of Davy Jones, the sailors' devil, are unclear, with a 19th-century dictionary tracing Davy Jones to a "ghost of the Prophet Jonah. Other explanations of this nautical superstition have been put forth, including an incompetent sailor or a pub owner who kidnapped sailors.

The earliest known reference of the negative connotation of Davy Jones occurs in the Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts, by author Daniel Defoe, published in 1726 in London.

Some of Loe's Company said, They would look out some things, and give me along with me when I was going away; but Ruffel told them, they should not, for he would toss them all into Davy Jones's Locker if they did.

An early description of Davy Jones occurs in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published in 1751:

This same Davy Jones, according to sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes:, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.

In the story, Jones is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils. The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose, written in 1785 and published in 1811, includes the definitions: "DAVID JONES. The devil, the spirit of the sea: called "Necken" or "Draugr" in the north countries, such as Norway, Denmark, and Sweden" and "DAVID JONES' LOCKER. The sea."

SPETSNAZ training is roughly the Russian (And old Soviet) analog to the US Special Forces Combat Diver training such as the US Navy SEALS. Spetsnaz (Russian: спецназ, IPA: [spʲɪtsˈnas]; abbreviation for Russian: Войска́ специа́льного назначе́ния, tr. Voyská spetsiálnovo naznachéniya, IPA: [vɐjˈska spʲɪt͡sɨˈalʲnəvə nəznɐˈt͡ɕenʲɪjə], lit. 'Special Operations Forces' or 'Special Purpose Military Units') is a Russian umbrella term for special forces which is used in numerous Russian-speaking post-Soviet states.

Historically, the term referred to special operations units controlled by the main military intelligence service GRU (Spetsnaz GRU). It also describes task forces of other ministries (such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs' ODON and Ministry of Emergency Situations' special rescue unit) in post-Soviet countries. Russian special forces wear different berets depending on the branch of the armed forces they belong to. These include:

Ground Forces and Airborne Forces – Blue beret
Navy and Marines – Black beret
National Guard – Maroon beret
As Spetsnaz is a Russian term, it is typically associated with the special units of Russia, but other post-Soviet states often refer to their special forces units by the term as well, since these nations also inherited their special purpose units from the now-defunct Soviet security agencies. The 5th Spetsnaz Brigade of Belarus is an example of a non-Russian Spetsnaz forces.

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