Motta di Salvarosa, A Fairy Seat? by sandra46

Mixed Medium • Faeries • posted on Jul 20, 2013

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This is the motta of Salvarosa (Salvarosa mound/barrow), a funerary mound in a tiny hamlet near Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso Province), built during the Bronze Age. And it is also a slide for the same conference I made the previous one I posted (Buffetto Mound 8). In Scotland and ireland these mounds are thought to be the fairies' dwellings. They are called Sidhe in Irish and Sith in Scottish Gaelic, a word referred both to the mound and the fairy people. SÃdhe pronounced shee, modern Irish: si; Scottish Gaelic: sith) is a Gaelic word possibly used as a safely euphemistic reference to Scottish Gaelic siodhe, referring first to earthen mounds that were thought to be home to a supernatural race related to the fey and elves of other traditions, and later to these inhabitants themselves. The "people of the mounds" are more correctly referred to as the Daoine Sidhe or Daoine Sith and are variously believed to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or the goddesses and gods themselves. There are a number of words in Italian to refer to these mounds, such as motta, motera, muttiron, etc. all from a Northern Italian Celtic word identical to the Scottish and Irish Gaelic word 'mothran' (meaning: a tuft of trees, a horrifying cry, a mound, a wooded bog, etc.), but none is similar to sidhe/sith. Anyway, there are many stories about fairies living in the streams, caves, woods, bogs etc., all of them usually near these mounds, even if there is no story about the mound as the fairies' specific dwelling in our region. These faieries are called Anguane and other local names. These names are related to the Welsh name Angwyn (gwyn, "white; blessed; holy" + an, an intensifying prefix). So Anguane can be translated The Blessed Ones. Thanks for your kind comments.

Comments (42)

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Faemike55

11:21AM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Very cool image and fascinating history Thanks for sharing both

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Jean_C

11:28AM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Superb image with a fae in her home... Excellent infos too.

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virginiese

11:39AM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Excellent postwork and thanks for your explanations too !

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Leije

11:40AM | Sat, 20 July 2013

very nice work on the fairies !

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UteBigSmile

11:53AM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Very nice looking composition dear Sandra!

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magnus073

12:12PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Sandra, let me first of all say what an excellent job you did once more with you're presentation. I was delighted to see this series continue, and look forward to more hopefully. This one especially caught my eye as the setting is so dramatic, and I so enjoyed the magical effects. Thank you also for the detailed and informative info you provided.

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ArtistKimberly

12:24PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Wonderful Work,

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0rest4wicked

1:39PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Fantastic presentation to accompany the narrative.

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Valeriya

2:05PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Wonderful work

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eekdog

2:06PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

great info, love how you did the ghostly figures.

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durleybeachbum

2:45PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Very clever indeed!

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jocko500

3:31PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

wonder if some one dig into these things? looks cool this image

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Star4mation

3:55PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Bronze Age burial mounds, or barrows as we call them are a common sight here in the South West of England. Excellent image Sandra showing the Fairy Folk who live close by :)

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MagikUnicorn

5:10PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

Trippy

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jeroni

5:42PM | Sat, 20 July 2013

nice model and wonderful composition

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wysiwig

12:58AM | Sun, 21 July 2013

Fascinating history showing how interconnected we are. I would certainly want to know what is inside those mounds. As for the Fairies, you'll have to ask FaeMike about those.

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