Celt
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Samhain is here, and so I’ve put this image on my page. While it doesn’t look like a typical Halloween image, the text below explains why this is an appropriate time to share its story. There’s more to this holiday than black cats and ghosts. Celts believed (and many still do) that earth is alive, intersected by a web of energy currents, or ley lines. The concept is similar, but not identical to the Chinese tradition of feng shui. Shorelines, hilltops, groves, wells, springs, and burial mounds (cairns) were believed to serve as points of entry into the fairie world. On certain dates the portals are either wide open or entered easily when the traveler used the correct incantation or ritual gesture. During Samhain veils between dimensions were thought especially thin, a time when spirits and ghosts may entered our world with ease. Samhain was a ritual period when one’s dead were honored and restless souls placated. Depending on the community, it could be a time for casting fortunes and auguring. Sensible folk stayed indoors close by the fire, for strange mischief was afoot and mysterious energies rode the winds. For mortals, crossing dimensions wasn’t without danger. The risk included not returning to one’s original place in time and geography with body, mind and soul still intact. Many entered faerie and never returned. Others returned but lost their minds along the way. Examples of some mythic imagery and personal symbolism follow. On the left side, is a faerie hill, the entry to Faerie. The woman represents the intuitive self, or soul, and the hill is the unknown. The entrance is luminous and beckons in the dark. At night the wilderness can be mysterious and frightening, it’s easy to get lost. Setting out to find a Hollow Hill and doing so with only stars lighting the way infers the traveler is serious about his/her quest, and is brave (or foolhardy) enough to take risks. Birch is a word descended from a Sanskrit and Indo-European word meaning “bright” and “shining”. Some state it’s directly derived from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning “to protect or shelter.” For this reason birch trees protect and disguise the entrance. Their bark is shining in the night, indicating no ill will befall the pure of heart who enter here, but to survive and avoid being lost the traveler must stay focused upon her goal, just as she will this distant light in the darkness. She might detour or tarry along the way, but it’s frightening, difficult journey that purifies and strengthens the spirit, not the destination or Fairie itself. We can’t reach The Hollow Hill without first undergoing The Quest. Text and Image copyright Helena Nelson – Reed
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The complete and real title is : “Poupée – InnerSelf”. I asked to myself : Stars… They bright the sky, our eyes, our mind & soul. They are inside of us. We always look for them, for these glimpses of lights and happiness. / Do we really know ourselves? / Do we realize that we have all of this inside of us? / What are we in fact? / As we don’t really look in the correct place, we don’t really know ourselves i decided to ‘almost’ delete the face. My gallery is Copyright © Wandering Soul. All rights reserved. / All the materials contained in my gallery may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my written permission. My images do not belong to the public domain. / Please read the Etiquette Policy and respect it! / Modifying, tubing, cropping, using it for letters or stationeries, layouts, backgrounds, stock, copyrighting, stealing my work is not only against the law but unethical. / Altaring or using without express written permission is stealing. View More ART here!
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The picts were an ancient Scottish people who created the most wonderful art and this drawing is inspired by them. A seahorse pairs for life I believe and I wanted to show them intertwined as one.
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I did this image years ago and it’s one I’ve wanted to offer as a T-shirt since I first did it. Enjoy Created from my original sketch using GIMP
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The Autumn Equinox is a Celtic Festival known as Mabon, and celebrates the powers of light and darkness being in total balance. Day and Night are of equal legnth, but unlike Spring Equinox in March, from now on the nights will be longer than the days and Autumn will descend into Winter. This is the Waning half of the years cycle , where we gather in the Harvest and make ready for the cold winter nights ahead. The life force goes back into the darkness of the earth and rests, before being reborne again in the Spring, renewed and full of fresh hope.
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Three Celtic Crosses looking out to sea in Coverack, on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. I took this a few weeks ago while on holiday, and I am hoping that this will inspire me to get more done. I chose to do this as selective colouring, keeping the sea as colour. Hope you like it. / Thanks for looking. Pentax K110D. / Pentax 18-55mm Lens.
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Enchantement… Song Of Sophia With one wish we wake the will / Within wisdom. / With one will we wish the wisdom / Within waking. / Woken, wishing, willing. (c) Dead Can Dance •:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`: You can view the Details HERE Original stock can be seen HERE for comparison purposes. This one has also be made in PSP. I painted over a lot. i created several layers for the hair and the dress, the same technic : paint brush, smudging a lot, various sizes and colors. I use a lot blend “screen” layers, i duplicate them, change the brightness ad set them to “screen”. BIG brushes for the backgrouds, like blurred flowers. How to change the colors? Easy : I often use the varition filter. And i blend. I’ve use the dodge brush for giving some lighting effects ;-) Official Website | More Goodies | Even More Goodies 2008 Calendar is available HERE •:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`: I’ve always created in my soul, / in my alive and living dreams. / I’ve a melancholical soul… / i wander away and here. maybe. / maybe you’ll cross my path, / one day, or another. . w a n d e r i n g s o u l . •:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`: My gallery is Copyright © WanderingSoul/KareMelancholia. All rights reserved. / All the materials contained in my gallery may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my written permission. My images do not belong to the public domain. / Please read the Etiquette Policy and respect it! / Modifying, tubing, cropping, using it for letters or stationeries, layouts, backgrounds, stock, copyrighting, stealing my work is not only against the law but unethical. / Altaring or using without express written permission is stealing. •:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:•:´¨`:
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We are always being watched by unseen eyes….. The origin of Halloween. / Halloween culture can be traced back to the Druids, a Celtic culture in Ireland, Britain and Northern Europe. Roots lay in the feast of Samhain, which was annually on October 31st to honor the dead. Samhain signifies “summers end” or November. Samhain was a harvest festival with huge sacred bonfires, marking the end of the Celtic year and beginning of a new one. Many of the practices involved in this celebration were fed on superstition. The Celts believed the souls of the dead roamed the streets and villages at night. Since not all spirits were thought to be friendly, gifts and treats were left out to pacify the evil and ensure next years crops would be plentiful. This custom evolved into trick-or-treating.
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A celtic pattern taken from a photo from a stone slab I took when we visited Inchmahome Priory in Scotland. /
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The Raven symbolizes the dark and difficult aspects of life, which is a part of life we often misunderstand and rarely effectively deal with. The dark aspects are not bad or evil, as it is necessary to go through a process of darkness in order to emerge in the light. Dark comes before light, healing is preceded by illness, the storm eventually transforms to calm and so on. The Raven reminds us of the need for this balance, and that without accepting the full integration of the cycle of dark and light, we cannot truly heal. The Raven is also a messenger between two worlds: the living world and the twilit Otherworld or spirit world. By connecting these two worlds, the Raven initiates us into a new way of being. The Raven travels from this world to the next; accessing the darkest regions bringing back visions and instructions for the seeker and the healer. Often, before advancing in any spiritual growth, one must sacrifice or let go of old ways of being. The Raven gives us insight into what old patterns must die in order to make way for the new. In this painting, the Raven flies at twilight, the time when the veil between the two worlds is at its thinnest. It flies over an ancient megalithic mound, where one can access the Otherworld. I didn’t paint the Raven feathers simply black, but are actually made of layers of blues, violets and greens. I did this to symbolize that all possibilities exist within the void of darkness, just waiting to emerge. In Eastern and Celtic traditions the Raven is a solar symbol. In my dream the Raven flew beneath a full moon, which I have interpreted here as the night sun, illuminating the landscape. But, traces of the setting sun are still visible in the horizon and limning the edge of the mound and distant trees and hills. I am by no means and authority on the Raven mythos. Feel free to interpret your own meanings, and, please share them here if you like. It is always fascinating to hear how others interpret such powerful archetypes. DoAn (The Raven: Healing and Initiation, 5×7”, ink fresco)
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Part of a calendar I’ve made for Chiaki and Ona using their images.
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Yule / Winter Solstice Yule is the Celtic Festival of the birth of the sun. Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night, but from this day forward the light will grow rather than diminish and the year turns once again towards the Waxing half of the year. In the darkest of nights there is still the silver star of hope and a promise of regeneration. The traditiona of bringing in the Holly,Ivy and Mistletoe at this time of the year is to symbolise that although the land looks cold and dead, life still persisits and the green of Spring and Summer will come again with the stregnthening of the Sun.
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Ona From our woad series
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Every year a competition is held in the mountains where I live “An Poc Fada” (The long puck) to see who can complete a 5km course over the mountain course in the least number of pucks or hits using a hurling stick and ball. Hurling is an ancient sport supposedly brought to Ireland by the celts, the same guys who built the Dolmen in the photo about 4000 years ago, the man was catching up on some news before the competition began.
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They were mowing the lawn at Stone Henge. / Stone Henge II
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My Celtic chief. / I produced this computer embroidery, a few years ago, before I started painting.
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On the planet Druidia in the Scara system,thousands of stone circles are scattered across the planet. / Legends say that over time the standing stones or henges loose their powers. / When they do others have to be magiced into being. Still the mystery of the Celtic rings remain. This is a pano of 5 renders done with Artmatic Pro & Artmatic Voyager then stiched together in PS Photomerge.
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Ona From our woad series
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Part of a calendar I’ve made for Chiaki and Ona using their images.
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Part of a calendar I’ve made for Chiaki and Ona using their images.
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Napoleon cast in a statue as Julius Caesar outside the Arenenberg Chateau in Switzerland. Bit sad really. But this megalomaniac based himself on Julius. Yes, rather sad really, especially as Julius tried to crush Gaul/France where Napoleon came from. Interestingly, his nephew, Napoleon the III (who also lived here) erected a statue to Vercingetorix, Julius Cesar’s enemy (hence the pun in the Asterix the Gaul cartoons). Vercingetorix was imprisoned by Julius for five years and then strangled in front of the crowd when Julius needed a publicity boost. Roman Civilization??? I think not! Give me Vercingetorix and his Gauls any day! Napoleon the III
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