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During Mabon (harvest festival) #AutumEquinox
many honor the Faeries for being excellent guides of the liminal places between seasons of light/darkness & offer them honey, apples, milk, wine or pretty crystals because they consume its essence.
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The ogres of Verde Prato by Giambattista Basile (Il Pentamerone).
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In the magic & fairy world of aristocratic portraiture, meet the Wild Knight in Armor.
🎨 Medieval Portrait
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There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
~ William Wordsworth
🎨 Finelia Grace
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #WatercolourWednesday #Painting
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"
~ Rabindranath Tagore
🎨 Rembrandt
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Undines, essence & spirit manifestation of waves in water were said to dwell in streams, waterfalls, ponds, marshes, rivers, lakes & the ocean. Most lived as water nymphs but some acquired souls, married & birthed children.
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At Lammas the Grain Mother/Harvest Queen/Earth Mother/Ceres & Demeter is in her aspect. Demeter, is the ripe corn harvest and her daughter Kore is the grain - the seed in the deep & dark earth, hidden in the winter, re-appearing in the spring as new growth.
#SuperstitionSat
In the Revenge Of The Blind, we learn about Enrico Dandolo, the 42nd Doge of Venice, who was blinded in a drunken fight during a trip to the Byzantine Empire in 1171. In revenge for his suffering, he led a crusade to slaughter 15,000 Byzantines.
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