Velificatio Velificatio Velificatio is a stylistic device used in ancient Roman art to frame a deity by means of a billowing garment. It represents "vigorous movement," an epiphany, or "the vault of heaven," often appearing with celestial, weather, or sea deities. It is characteristic of the iconography of the Aurae, the Breezes personified, and one of the elements which distinguish representations of Luna, the Roman goddess of the Moon, alluding to her astral course. A figure so framed is a velificans (plural velificantes). Not all deities are portrayed as "velificantes", but the device might be used to mark a member of
Bombaby the Screen Goddess Bombaby the Screen Goddess Bombaby the Screen Goddess is a fictional character published in a comic book of the same name created by Antony Mazzotta and published by Amaze Ink (Slave Labor Graphics). The character is based upon an avatar of the Hindu goddess Mumbadevi; the comic is inspired in equal parts by superhero stories and Bollywood. Sangeeta Mukherjee is the daughter of well-to-do, traditional parents, dealing with a bratty little sister and a possible arranged marriage, when an out-of-body experience reveals that she is not an ordinary young woman. Sangeeta is, in fact, the reincarnation of India's ancient protector,