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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Urisk-Scottish Solitary Fairy

Urisk- Scottish Solitary Fairy-
Well I am back again today! I guess I feel like doing fun
short post on interesting Magick creatures and Faeries now that I am feeling a bit better from my nasty cold.
I ended having bronchitics, so it might take still a while for me to do my usually longer posts that I do. So
I hope you all don't mind these smaller post for a while until I get over the bronchitics:o). My next fairy
is rather interesting its called an Urisk Scott Solitary faerie. As fairies go, I would call the male fairy the most
handsome of the lot. Although most Solitary fairies are either very beautiful or very plane looking.
This Urisk Male fairy unfortunately is not your handsome type of Solitary Fairy - He is tall and will appear to be aging because of his balding head of no hair. You will only see his pointy ears coming out from in long and drawn face that seems to be always sad. The Urisk Fairy will stare at you through soulful round eyes. Most,
but not all will sport a goatee on their chin. They are emaciated and have a hairless torso which gives them a somewhat human like appearance -at least on the top have of his body. His lower half is a goat-like with
shaggy fur. And his limbs are long and thin, which he walks on cloven feet. This could be the very reason that he has made his home in secluded pools so that his lower half goat of shaggy fur is concealed in the water.
The Urisk is a brownie fairy - which I have gone over before about brownies [A brownie is a small, hardworking elf-like creature that lives in houses and barns. He is said to come out at night, to finish the housework that has been left undone.In return, a brownie will accept gifts of food - cream, bread or milk may be left for him, but other gifts offend him - like that of - clothes are left out for him, he will put them on and vanish, never to return. A brownie is rarely seen, though he can often be heard cleaning and scrubbing.
The Urisk
A mischievous brownie could sometimes disarrange rooms and furniture, and make an untidy clutter.
Brownies occur mainly in the folklore of England and Scotland.] I hope that brief description will help. If
you need more on the Legend of the Brownie I have done a post [The Browney Fairy Sunday June 16, 2013] Just look for it on my Labels: The Urisk that hales from the Scottish Highland can only be found
in the isolated ponds, lakes, marshlands and streams or even sometimes strolling about through woodland
areas of the highlands. He is considered a Solitary Fae because he lives alone. He appears as a slight human
figure with the goat legs but he isn't a satyr or an faun. Most of them will sport a nice set of horns on their balding head. Even though the Urisk lives in such a lonely place, he is a friendly Fae and seeks out human
companionship. However his appearance is what ensures most people who cross his path tend to stay far away. But the few men or women who sought release form their woes by visiting solitude places withing the woodland. Seeking ease and peace, are quite often attracted to secluded pools, lakes and marsh's; basically place of contemplation. Of course most Scott's or Celtic people of heritage by heart all know that in the dark forests, woods and marsh lands of the lowlands and highlands are more likely then anywhere else to meet a Magick creature that would have their heart in their throat by the time they hit the highway of the first human house they see.  This goes for their neighbor country of Ireland too.
'As i found 'Tis sad. Thee urisk, a humb creature by nature, so loney 
and all thee wants is to make thee friends. But most humans will shun
the poor urisk just because of his appearance. That most find horrifying or frightening
kinda makes you think a bit about our own solidity and how we
treat our own people. Just how how you look, not what thee 
person's personality might be. It seems it has followed 
all thee way into the Fae world of yet sad but true.
Still I hope that one day the Urisk will have a friend that
will come because of his friendship qualities and befriend him
I hope in the Fae world and ours!'
Love and Friendship 
can go a longggggggggggg! way in the world!
love you all my dears friends and followers 
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Yakshas Spirits

Yakshas Spirits-
Well I thought I would go deep and try to find as many different
kinda Faeries, Nature spirits, Nymphs, Muse's, and Magick creatures as I can for you all my dears friends
Female Yakhas
and followers. So here is the Yakshas sometimes benevolent nature spirits- They are said to be the 

guardians of treasures hidden in the earth and roots of trees. Their ruler is Kubera, who lives on a 
mountain in the great Himalayas. Yakshas are deities of cities, districts, lakes and wells, and
are also thought to have originated from a cult of the ancient Dravidians.
I found that also in the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Mythology the Yakshas Spirits had a dual personality.
On one hand a Yaksa may be a offensive natural fairy that is associated with the woods and mountains of 
the Grand Himalayas/ but there is another side to this Yaksa Spirit fairy, which is much darker and has a 
cannibalistic ogre, ghost or demon like to the fairy spirit that haunts the wilderness of the forest and woods
of Himalayas. That will devour any travelers that happens to get lost within those woods that he/she haunts.
 They say that the Yaksha is basically a very dangerous cannibalistic, the tutelary spirit of the lake
who threatens the life of the epic hero Yudhisthira. The Yaksas may have origin been the tutelary gods of
the forests and villages and were later viewed as the stewed deities of the earth and the weatlh buried beneath. Males Yakshas are portrayed as either as fearsome warriors stout dwarf-like females Yakshas are
portrayed as beautiful young women with happy round faces and full breasts and hips. In the state of Kerala in South India a Yakshis are depicted as an vampire enchantresses.
I hope you enjoyed this short post on the Yaksha 
I found it quite interesting myself I hope you did too!
I love you all my dears friends and followers 
Much love to you all 
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Gargoyles

Gargoyles-
Gargoyle
I've always been fascinated with Gargoyles. They have been depicted in so many way
thought the centuries. So I thought I would do a post on the true history/legend and Myth of the
Gargoyles. First what is a Gargoyle? Well it is many things to different cultures and countries.
So a Gargoyle is basically a carved stone Grotesque, it might have a spout design to convey a water
design on a roof of an building or church. Also it could also be away from the side of a building thereby
preventing rainwater from running down on the masonry walls of either an famous building or Cathedral churches. So then the eroding that might happen in the mortar between wont happen.
The Architects of the buildings or Cathedral churches often use
multiple Gargoyles on the building to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to a minimize of the potential damage from huge
rainstorms. This of course will also depend on the region, culture and country too! This would also included the legends and myths that they decide to put on the buildings or Cathedral Churches too. You may not know this but, when an Gargoyle is carved out and put on an building a trough is cut in the back of each and ever one of the Gargoyles so that the rainwater will typically exits through the opening of their mouth. Gargoyles are usually an elongated fantastic animal because of the length of the gargoyle will determine how far the water is thrown from the wall on the building it is attached too.
Legend of the La Gagouille-
There was an French legend that sprang up around the name of St. Romanus in the year 631-641AD. The
A La Gagouille of France
former Chancellor of the Merovingian King of Clotaire II who was then made the Bishop of Rouen. The Chancellor who was then made the Bishop of Rouen could relate how he was delivered to his country of
Many La Gagouilles on a
Cathedral Churches
Rouen from a monster called Gargouille or Goji. The La Gargouille is said to have been the typical dragon with batlike wings and a long neck, with the ability to breathe fire from its mouth. Now from what I understand there are multiple versions of this story of the La Gargouille Dragon Creature!
These were either that of St. Romanus subdued the creature with a Crucifix or he had captured the creature with the help of the only volunteer - which was a condemned man and then burned to death, but its head and neck would not burn due to being tempered by its own fire breathe.  So they would chop off the head and then mount it on the walls of the newly built Church's to scare off evil spirits and used them for extra protection. Like the image that I have given for you on the church. I
couldn't find who was the condemned man, but I did discover that in each version the Creature/Monster is
led back in commemoration of St. Romain, the Archbishops of Rouen were granted the right to set a
prisoner free on the day that the reliquary of the saint was carried in procession.
Gargoyle of Notre Dame Cathedral Church
Notre Dame Cathedral has sat at the heart of Paris, France, for centuries, and during all those long years of history, its gargoyles have stood watch with stony faces both strange and frightening. The gargoyles' place in architectural history is as old as the Cathedral itself. In fact, Notre Dame's Gothic gargoyles come from a lineage going back thousands of years. Read on to learn more about these grotesque creatures of stone.
Gargoyle looking over the
City of Pairs on his
 Church the Cathedral
of Notre Dame
Commonly carved of granite, a gargoyle is a statue built with a drain in its mouth. Often representing mythological creatures or demons, they are mounted to the sides of buildings, at the ends of gutters. In this way, they channel water away from the building's foundation.A gargoyle is erected specifically at the end of a gutter. It serves to drain water away from a building. Other stone carvings of monstrous faces and weird creatures are also found among the gargoyles, but have no function other than decoration. These purely ornamental statues are called "grotesques," or sometimes "chimeras." The more I research about the Gargoyles the more it brought me
back to the Cathedral Church of Notre Dame. Which I found to be very interesting. So I decided to find out more on this about the Gargoyles of  Notre Dame.
The Gargoyles of Notre Dame- The more I looked, I wondered why there was these monster like half-man and half-beast on a beautiful Cathedral Church? These demon looking creatures are all carved out of stone. They are one of many eerie stone figures that adorn the gutters of the huge beautiful Cathedral Church of Notre Dame in Paris. The reason? Well the first thing is, Gargoyle come from a Latin word, which meaning gullet or drain. And all those creatures up there are basically drainpipes. Each grotesque & eerie Gargoyle has a passageway inside them that carries rainwater from the roof and out through the mouths of the Gargoyles. And if you look either in France or in the image they are on the very top of the Cathedral's
towers the over see the beautiful city of France. Just like they the Gargoyles are doing what they are suppose  to do protect the City and the Grand Church of Notre Dame!
The history of Notre Dame- The Church in fact replaced a Roman Catholic Church in 528BC called the
The Cathedral Notre Dame Church of Paris
Catherdral of St. Etienne which occupied the same site. Some have said or claimed that there were actually two churches standing on the site, one dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and the other dedicated to St. Stephen.
From what I understood about this Cathedral it is considered a Gothic perfection that is located in the heart or center of Paris (on the Site of the island of the Seine River)
The building was started in 1163 during the reign of Louis VII. And Pope Alexander the III had the honor of laying the foundation of stone. On completion of the choir in 1183work was begun on the nave and finally completed around the year 1200.  What I found, throughout the many centuries there have been many transformations that have taken place on in the Towers and the transept crossing too. It was said that in the mid-13th century the interior of the great Cathedral was transformed/Plus there were Kings and Queens once crowned in the magnificence tempe in the late 1700's. Yet during the French Revolution many of the
The Front door of the
Cathedral of Norte Dame
Gargoyles on the Towers of the Catheral 
Cathedral treasures were destroyed or looted. The grand bells(of Gold) manged to escape from being melted down and the inside of the church at the time of war was used as a storehouse for food and other items. After the French Revolution the great church needed much repair. So a large restoration program begun, but in  1871, the
cathedral was nearly burned by the Commands but it managed to survive. Its seems that the Grand Cathedral has been guarded by the weird and scary at time stone Gargoyles for more that six hundred years now. Some still believe that the Gargoyles are still protecting the Grand Church by frighten away evil spirits with their monstrous faces that are all over the towers high up on the church.
One of the Remaining
Marble Lion Head Gargoyles
on the Temple of Zeus
In Ancient Egyptian, the Gargoyles were shown with little variation. This was typically in the form of a lions head that would have water spouting from it. Also seen on Greek Temples as well. These would be carved
Temple of Zeus
Today
or modelled in marble or even terracotta. An great example of this would be the 39 remaining lion-headed water spouts on the Temple of Zeus. It is said that there were originally 102 of the lion-headed water spouts on the Temple of Zeus Gargoyles if you will, but due to the heavy weight being crafted from pure marble, many have snapped off and had to be
Temple of Zeus in its
Grand Days!
replace. Although not all could replace to the original 102 lion-headed water spouts on the Temple of Zeus.
Gargoyle were generally viewed in two ways by the church throughout history.
The primary use was to convey the concept of evil through the form of the Gargoyle, which
was especially useful in sending a stark message to the common folk, mostly of whom were illiterate.
The Gruesome Gargoyles also are said to scare evil spirits away from the church, this of course reassured the congregants that Evil was kept outside of the church's walls.
A Grand Gargoyle 
I also discovered that the Gargoyles have been around for decades. It is also believed that the Gargoyles
were the first created during the 11th and 13th centuries. The original purposes of these mostly gruesome and frighting creatures was for water spouts. And as decorative Grotesques carved Creatures mostly of Marble atop of spiritual buildings such as all Cathedrals. Many of the Gargoyles and Grotesques are of Celtic and Pagan inspiration. Yet if you have notice over the years Gargoyles have become so much more
popular in both adorning either Church's or even so very well-known skyscrapers around the world in many different countries. They also have become much more poplar in Heine site with the movie director's in depicting them in many different ways. I couldn't tell you how many different Gargoyle syfi-movies I have seen..
From what I understand there have been many theories and ideas as to what the purpose
of these Creatures the Gargoyles sever. Some people believe the Gargoyles and their grotesques designed was to look frightening and intimidating so they would ward off evil spirits. There was another theory that
the gargoyles and their grotesques were created to placate pagan gods and local deities. What I mean by this is people believed that if the pagan gods and local deities saw the gargoyles and grotesqes then they would like that buliding more thatn another - perhaps one with no gargoyles nor grotesques would of help it grow and prosper - one will never know? There is another theory - that is that the gargoyles and grotesques are a symbol of the devil and hell and that they are atop of the grand cathedrals to remind the church members that if the stray away from God, then they will become sinner. My opioion is that the last idea is a little far fetched, and that the Gargoyles and grotesques were put on the Grand Catherdratls and Even Great Zeus himself his Temple to ward of evil spitirs and to protect all who enters the Catherdratl Church or back in the day of Zeus Temple too to protect his people too. 
Well I hope you found this to be interesting as I found it to be
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 I love you all so very much! 
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