Leanan Sidhe by RavynGyrl
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Description
The Leanan Sidhe
Gaelic translation: leanan meaning the love of my soul or spirit, my inspiration. "Sidhe" of course means faery. Other meanings include faery mistress, faery sweetheart or spirit of life. Pronounced lan-awn shee.
Purpose/abilities: There are two different stories to the Leanan Sidhe - one is very dark, the other a bit lighter. The lighter tale believes she is a muse that bestows the ability to create a work of art, music, or poetry with great depth of feeling. The price of this gift usually is sorrow or heartbreak that is born of obsession. She is an empath who is compelled to inspire love and despair, longing and desire. The other belief is that the Leanan Sidhe gives this gift and feeds off the artist's emotions until they die of depression, and even then continues to feed off them.
Symbols/associations: She is connected with the Celtic crone goddesses who preside over the great cauldron of life, death, and rebirth. She is also thought to be the embodiment of intelligence and creativity, art and magic.
"She is intelligence and creativity, art and magic. In this earthly realm, so embraced with fear of the erotic and the sensual, it is no wonder she who is the embodiment of these very qualities, has been considered dangerous and evil, as many woman have been considered evil who revel in their mystery, power and dark exotic beauty."
~Aria Nadii, from Gateway of Faerie
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Comments (13)
ragouc
Gorgeous character
Tracesl Online Now!
beautiful
Faemike55
Very beautiful render and great information! Well done
Blazerwiccan
Beautiful. Love the redish dress with a blueish back ground :)
lyron
Wonderful image!!
EdAB
Great job.
Jops_the_2nd
Excellent color composition and Render!!
zinama
Stunning!!! She is beautiful and her dress is very nice!!! Amazing Render 5+++
kaleya
She's beautiful. Nice work.
scifibabe
She's very lovely. Beautiful outfit and great accessories. Nice writeup to go with this picture. Great job!
Thetis
thank you for the very interesting background information. matches the actual irish motto of rosity. your portrait represents everything of the myth and is very beautiful
brewgirlca
wow, utterly fantastic dark image with a wonderful history of the character to go with it. Color pallette is soft and dark and skin tones wonderfully done. She has a look that is just slightly less than wicked. Excellent.
elfin14doaks
Wow, you are awesome! Incredible.