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Mefiti, the goddess of the volcano stands at the entrance to the murky depths, the underworld. She has powers from deep in the earth, sometimes the cracks burst open in flame. Also the god of noxious gases, her animal is the duck -

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2020-10-15

The Handless Maiden tale is a symbol of women's journey into the underworld to reclaim their psychic & creativity power. In the tale, the girl loses her hands to the Devil & then begins her transformative journey of death/rebirth until she heals & becomes Queen.#FolkloreThursday

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In Norse Mythology there is da terrifying draugr. An undead being that haunts it's own burial mound.

One belief is Shetland's 'trow', a creature that lives below da hills, evolved in wir folklore fae this.




Artwork: https://t.co/OxrIajtWq3

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For theme of the underworld and underground, some jottings form my sketchbook. I'm fascinated by the way the British landscape is peppered with reminders of our anicient connection to what lies beneath.

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Gwyn ap Nudd was a Welsh Psychopomp, the king of the Tylwyth Teg (fair folk) and ruler of the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn (believed to be underneath the earth)
He is closely associated with the Wild Hunt along with his spectral hounds (the Cŵn Annwn)

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Two paintings based on the mythic journeys to the underworld.

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Gnomes happen to be my favorite dwelling creature of They are known in folklore as hobgoblins or kobolds, but in fairy tales they live under trees or in caves, and are delightfully surly creatures who are equal parts wise and childlike.

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When Eurydice dies from a snake bite, Persephone persuades her husband Hades to release Eurydice back to Orpheus. Sadly Orpheus proves incapable of following instructions & she ends up back in the underworld https://t.co/IvLMue2I7B (img: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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It is often overlooked that once it was arranged that Persephone would return to the living world for 6 months every year, (one month for each pomegranate seed she had eaten), she became equal to Pluto in ruling the underworld & did so very well. Img: Rossetti

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2020-10-15

This week's theme is folklore of the and (Image: Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, Jan Brueghel the Elder)

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2020-10-13

making use of extensive online content for & dipping into the marvelous resource that is Thomas Pennant's A TOUR IN

- 8 volumes chronicling 3 journeys 1773-76 (Cromlechs & Druids in vol 4!)

https://t.co/H2b2pZ4g0K

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2020-10-10

The illustration is by Meg Whalberg, for Rose Fyleman’s “A Fairy Went A-Marketing.”
As a child, my mother (a teacher and poetry lover) read to us from the Childcraft series, circa 1949. The poem tells of a fairy, who releases the creatures she buys.

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According to The Vedas, all souls return to the moon after death, to be devoured by maternal spirits...

🎨Léon-François Commere

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My favorite and for is Sedna, Mother of the Deep. When her hands are chopped off and she’s pushed from a boat, her fingers turn into marine creatures and she sinks to the bottom of the sea to become an Inuit goddess.

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What a heroic session, This is Crystal signing off. Stick around because will join at 6:30 BST for today’s last session. “She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.” — Nicole Lyons (Image: Füssli)

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2020-10-09

Fun Facts about Hera!!!
1) Hera was as an independent goddess before the Greeks gave up trying to suppress her cults and married her off to Zeus, conquering both the land of Greece and a woman-centered religion.
Illustration from HanieMohd

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2020-10-08

Iris is the Greek goddess of the rainbow. The Greeks saw the rainbow as linking heaven & earth & Iris as linking gods & mortals. She travelled on the rainbow to all parts of the cosmos, bearing messages from the Olympians to gods & men. Img: Arthur Rackham

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Maiden, mother, crone, three-in-one, the Morrigan of Ireland is master of fate and death, the Phantom Queen who rules the land as battle crow and wailing woman. She gives prophecy, at a steep price, and magicians are loyal to her, for she is Sovereign Queen.

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In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or valkyrie, from the Völsunga saga & some Eddic poems. In Germanic tradition, she is a powerful Amazon-like queen. 👑 https://t.co/PLhJzbR8IH

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An updated look on my Witch and Familiar series in graphite. Power ladies 🌟
Still lots more to come :)

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