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Great - Art's of Great Enchantments, Fantasy & Faeries
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Of the Media .I've called it the Art's of 'Great Enchantment, Fantasy & Faeries' because that is what they all say to me. I hope that You all will Enjoy them too. All are in the form of paintings, Photographic photo-shop, digital painting and other Media. Many are from Talented Artist... Thank you to all the talented Artist,who have created all these beautiful images for all of us to Enjoy...
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In Chinese mythology, a Nian is a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains. I thought a
Mythology Creature of China would be fun to do.. As my quest to try to find many different Magical &
Mythical Creatures all over the world for you! It seems that the Nian is a Mythical Beast of China
who from legend was from many many centuries ago. The legendary monster as they call him the NIAN.
Is said to always destroy the hard grown crops and fields that the villages worked all year to grow for
their families and for the village to eat so know one would go hungry, but it seems that this monster the
Nian would destroy all their hard work and their food for the year.. It was said that the
villages would try everything to get rid of the monster so their crops wouldn't be destroyed
every year.. They had tried everything to scare the Nian monster, but nothing seem to work. Finally,
the people of the villagers found a weakness of the Nian. After many years of searching and many lost crops
the villagers found the secret to keeping the Nian monster away for good. The monster was scared of the
colour RED! So indeed the colour red had worked. According to the Chinese legend and the folklore of the
Nian Beast stomping thru the crops & valleys of the people of china, then heading to their homes
Nian Mythical Beast its origins come from the Chinese New Year with the fight against the Nian many
centuries ago in China and the Chinese inserted an extra month once every few years [seven years out of a
19-yearcycle] in order to reconnect with the solar calendar, which is very similar to the concept of a leap year. It seems that the Nian would come on the first day of every New Years Day to eat the villages livestock, crops and even the villagers themselves, especially the children. So what they did to
protect themselves, the people of the small villages would put food in front of their doors at the beinginning of
evry new year in hopes it would not eat anything else. Long ago it was said the Nian was scared away
by a child that was wearing a red dress which lead the villagers to understand the beast weakness, the
colour Red. So the next day the whole village began to to first paint their entree village bright red doors, walls, ceils, etc. Then they hang red lanters and red spring scrolls in their door and windows. It is said that
Nian Mythical Beast
Red in chinese means the emblem of joy, virtue, truth and sincertiy. The people of the villiage would also use
Firecracker to frighten away the Nian which seem to work with all the Red colour in the town too.
This did work for many years until the Nian was eventually captured by the Hongjun Laozu, an ancient
Taoist Monk and it became locked inside the Hongjun Laozu's mountains. But the story doesnt end just
yet...After
Nian was captured, everyone had a big celebration and the ritual
involved in banishing him was repeated the following year, and so the
ritual was passed down from generation to generation and the custom of
celebrating New Year with firecrackers, noise, and the colour red has
persisted to this day. Its seems that the tale originated in the and it lays claims to a legacy as being one to the greatest of china's Monstrous beasts and behemoths of their mythology even to modern times.. But these dreadful brutes themselves lived in terror of a creature infinitely more awful and malevolent than all the rest of them combined. An immensely large beast reputedly endowed with a jaw vast enough to seize and devour a multitude of people in a single swallow,the Nian was a terror to behold indeed, with its massive horns, enormous tail, and an unnatural appearance that combined the powerful frame of a bull with the snarling head of a lion.
Nian Mythical Beast of China
The potential of this abomination to devastate humanity was not lost on the luminaries of Heaven, and so the Jade Emperor in his great wisdom, compelled the Nian to confine itself to its dreary mountain home most of the time. But a loophole did exist in this otherwise inspired decree, one that the Nian exploited with terrible consequences for mortal kind. On the first and fifteenth day of every year, as winter begun to recede to make way for the first signs of the new spring, the Nian was permitted to roam as it pleased, blighting every living thing that had the misfortune to stray into its destructive path.
Falling with great gusto upon the wretched villages, he would depopulate them in their entirety, leaving behind terrible lessons for other villages foolish enough to doubt the sagacity of fleeing before the Nian's onset the moment its movements were known.
But the gods were not unkind and it so happened that one of them felt motivated to check the menace of the Nian for once and all.. What I did find that there were many other versions to the ending to the folktale
and how they rid the Nian beast from the small villiage province of Shanghai. It seemed that there was
an Old mendicant that was part of the tale in trying to stop the beast and a few others too.
In todays modern China the celebration of every coming spring by setting off fire-crackers is still very much
alive in their culture today. This could be by playing loud instruments and adorning the lanterns outside their
homes with strips of Red! confident that the Nian will be cowed by their show of force and so leave them
untroubled for yet another year. Once the night is over, the people of China would then all come out to
congregate together with their relations and relatives to congratulate one another on surviving the Nian.
Well I hope that you all Enjoyed my new post on the Nian Beast of China
I will be tring to find more interesting stories for all
I love you all very much
WENDY
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BABA YAGA- Baba Yaga: (Grandmother Bony Shanks) This Russian hag faery is said to be a wild
woman of dark magic and was said to live in a magical home which would move from place to place. In these stories of the Slavic folklore and myth they were said to come from the people who lived in the forests of northern Russian and Finland many many years ago. Yet in many way the people of today still believe of
the Baba Yaga even today. They had said to have stone statues named Yaga. And the Russian
soldiers who came to the area called the Golden Babas. It was said that these statues had
their own little huts, built on tree stumps, full of gifts. These statues were of a local goddess that the
people would ask for advice in the old days of Russia. It seems that she also had the power to decide
what would happen to the people too. a bit like Baba-Yaga. The word Baba means a woman old
enough to marry . However in the Russian folklore of the Baba-Yaga it is often described as a frightening
wild, old witch with a terrible appetite for eating mostly children. It is said the story of the Baba Yaga
and the Vasilisa the Fair is one of the well-known tales and has things very in common with other folk tales
like that of Cinderella of the U.S folktale.
I found the Baba Yaga very interesting as for her origins. It is said in some of the folklore tales that
she stands for a person's fate. When ever someone enters her hut , they live or die depending on what
they say or do. Some also say that the Baba Yaga stand for an more darker side of wisdom and others the
lighter side. From what I can see from the tale of the Baba Yaga she is really much more that just a evil witch with chicken feet that has an appetite for children... And I have seen many lighter side stories and children stories made hear in the U.S that my son loved as a young boy too..
In many ancient societies , the older women were seen as the keepers of wisdom and traditions for
the family or tribe. No longer able to have or care for children they became the mother to the rest of the
community. It was believed that these wise women understood the mysteries of birth and death. They were
the healers and looked after the dying. Sometimes they were even thought to have the power of life and death itself. The word witch once meant wise ... Well In my opinion it still does... as in the old days of the
witch hunts I think it was the 11th & 12th centuries those young and older women were wise beyond any ones years on the herbs of healing and are to his day...
It was the 12thcentury I believe that started the whole nasty thing of the bad witch with the magic power of which was thought be be used for only evil by small minded & closed minded people in those times which cause the fear and hate towards these wise women with their potions and wonderful advice.. As you know
the history hundreds if not thousands of women were put to death by fire just because of the picture of
the wise women became changed to the witch quote became the frighting evil casting wicked spells witch..
of course all of the women in the 11th and 12th century were beautiful women but were all depicted as the the frightening ugly old hag of the stories today ....
Now Baba Yaga is interesting to me because although she is described as a terrifying old witch, she is
still described as wise and very powerful in the tales and folklore of Russia and Finland ... and sometimes a
bit wild, cruel but sometimes kind.. Baba Yaga makes a link between the wise women of early myths and
the witch's of the folklore of sorts...
The Baba Yaga like most witches can fly but doesn't use a broomstick. She uses a giant mortar with her
knees almost touching her chin. She drives very fast over the forest and uses the pestle as a rudder held in
her right hand. Baba Yaga sweeps away her tacks with broom made out of silver Birch held in her left
hand. Whenever she appears, there is always a wild wind that begins to blow and the trees will groan as the
leave whirl through the air. You know that the Baba Yaga in in the forest.. Her home is a hut deep in the
birch forest, in a place that is very difficult to find, unless a magic thread or feather shows the way. The hut has a life of its own. It stands on large chicken legs and can move about. Its windows act as eyes and the lock is a full set of teeth. A post fence surround the hut. The posts are made of human bones and the topped
with skull whose blazing eyes sockets light up the forest. Very often the hut is guarded by hungry dogs...
The hut can spin around and moves through the forest. It can also make blood-curdling screeches.
Those who do find the Baba Yaga hut and find their why in, never leave as she washes them, feeds them
and sits them on a giant spatula before putting them in her oven....
Well I decided to do the post today I am on a roll you could say:o)
I also decided to put my post of the Baba Yaga on here too
Art from Finland
Art from Finland
for you all to have some good reading too.. Enjoy!
As I said I would do another post on the
Baba Yaga hag faery which will included images that will be
mostly from Russia being that, that's where
the Baba Yaga had origins is from..
Although I know there are parts of Finland too found (2 images)
All the rest are I believe russia ...
I have always had a special place for the Baba Yaga
Probably as I had said earlier in the post, having fond memories
with my son favorite animated movie of Bartok the Magnificent
where a funny tiny bat Bartok has to get the kidnapped child prince -
even if it means confronting the Evil Witch Baba Yaga!
Yes I found the movie! It was mostly all about this funny little bat facing his
fears dealing with the 'Witch Baba Yaga'
depicted on 20th Century Fox home Entertaintment movie 1999
the memories are still fresh as the day when Kai was only
between 5 to 7 years old
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