ok guys, seriously now. Just ignore them. It's not worth it. The devs aren't putting this thread as the arbitor of what ends up happening with something, WFG do their own research and implement things they want to add in the game how they want to add it. They are most certainly not going to listen to a troll on this or the other forum so you don't need to make a heroic stand, just ignore him.
Where's the original? That's the sky, the line coming at an angle is the ecliptic, the yearly apparent path of the Sun, which makes sense for a solar deity. Although many knew the Earth is round, they didn't really represent it as such, nor did they usually think it needed to be held. On the other hand, the sky was often represented as a sphere (since one sees the sky "turning" and showing different constellations through the year), and since it's up, it needed to be held somehow in many myths.
When are you going to share with us the vast knowledge you have acquired from the multitude of books you have read on the matter?
Besides, I've already blatantly exposed the real agenda of whom you are quoting (and yours too, apparently):
I'm starting to work on some illustrations of the shields.
The drawing still needs some effects.
This is Malak-Bel, the solar god.
I made him look similar to Helios in the drawings and poses.
With one hand he prepares to speak/bless, and in the other I believe he holds the world.