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 Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:37 pm
There's a selchie maid swimming alone in the bay
Her eyes are the seal's, her heart is the sea
BEGINNING
Hello, and welcome to my IotS quest thread! In case you haven't guessed by the various hints and shout outs, I'm questing for the Spirit of the Selkie. If you don't know what a Selkie is, or just want to learn more about them, scroll down the page for more info.
I'll be updating periodically with new information as much as I can. If you have questions, comments, or just general critique, then please feel free to post as much as you like. All helpful posts are much appreciated!
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:39 pm
A selchie maid swimming alone in the bay
A pure white seal maiden is sheDescription/History
"...it was as he turned he saw something move in the shadows of the rocks. A glimmer of white and then - he heard it between birds’ cries - high laughter like silver. He set down the creel, and with careful steps he neared the rocks, hardly daring to breathe, and hid behind the largest one. And then he saw them - seven girls with long flowing hair, naked and white as the swans on the lake, dancing in a ring where the shoreline met the sea."-The Selkie
Stories concerning selkies are generally romantic tragedies. Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them gone. Other times the human will hide the selkie's skin, thus preventing them from returning to seal form. A selkie can only make contact with one particular human for a short amount of time before they must return to the sea. They are not able to make contact with that human again for seven years, unless the human is to steal their selkie's skin and hide it or burn it.
Male selkies are very handsome in their human form, and have great seduction powers over human women. They typically seek those who are dissatisfied with their romantic life. This includes married women waiting for their fishermen husbands. If a woman wishes to make contact with a selkie male, she has to go to a beach and shed seven tears into the sea.
Sometimes, a selkie maiden is taken as a wife by a human man and she has several children by him. In these stories, it is one of her children who discovers her sealskin (often unwitting of its significance) and she soon returns to the sea. The selkie woman avoids seeing her human husband again but is sometimes shown visiting her children and playing with them in the waves.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:41 pm
She comes to the shore and she sheds her seal skin
She dances on sand, dances under the moon
Spirit of the Selkie
Name: Laoise (LEE sha) *It is a traditional irish name and means radiant girl
Reason behind the meaning: Hecate thought it most appropriate to name the selkie child radiant. Had it not been for the girl's shinning beauty, the Argo, would have crashed into an outcropping of rocks and killed Jason and his crew before they could even begin their adventure. As it were, they thought the child nothing but a guise of Hecate's to lead them astray, so they missed the dangerous rocks by a mile.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:42 pm
Her hair falls in waves down upon her white skin
And only the seals hear the tune.
Art
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:44 pm
Then standing, the fisherman takes her seal skin
Staking his claim to a wife from the seaGuardian Name: Hecate (a.k.a Queen of Ghosts)
Age: Unknown
Gender: Female
Race: Belongs to the family of greek gods and goddesses
Skin: Very light peach
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blood Red
Height: 5'6
Weight: 119lb
Sign: Cancer
Likes: Hermes, mixing spells, inventing new chants, taunting men, bossing the three hags, moonlit nights, Easter Island heads, crows, and fire dancers.
Dislikes: Artemis, dogs, intense heat/sunlight, Macbeth, deserts, russian white chocolate, snobbish people...and Macbeth.
Quirks: Rapidly blinks her eyes when in a state of confusion
Friends: Hades, the Prophet(s), and Cyclops (ever had to try and have tea with the guy, yikes!)
True Origins
Hecate was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth, naturalized early in Thrace, but originating among the Carians of Anatolia,the only region where theophoric names are attested, and where Hekate remained a great goddess into historical times, at Lagina.The monuments to Hekate in Phrygia and Caria are numerous but of late date. In Ptolemaic Alexandria she ultimately achieved her connotations as a goddess of sorcery and her role as the 'Queen of Ghosts', in which guise she was transmitted to post-Renaissance culture. Today she is often seen as a goddess of witchcraft and Wicca. One aspect of Hecate is represented in the Roman Trivia.
Despite popular belief, Hecate was not originally a Greek goddess. The roots of Hecate seem to be in the Carians of Asia Minor. She appears in Homer's "Hymn to Demeter" and in Hesiod's Theogony, where she is promoted strongly as a great goddess. The place of origin of her cult is uncertain, but it is thought that she had popular cult followings in Thrace. Her most important sanctuary was Lagina, a theocratic city-state in which the goddess was served by eunuchs. Lagina, where the famous temple of Hecate drew great festal assemblies every year, lay close to the originally Macedonian colony of Stratonikea, where she was the city's patroness. In Thrace she played a role similar to that of lesser-Hermes, namely a governess of liminal points and the wilderness, bearing little resemblance to the night-walking crone she became. Additionally, this led to her role of aiding women in childbirth.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:54 pm
Oh, weeping she goes, and still weeping she stays
Her hands are her craft, her babes are her art
A year and a year and a year more she stays
A rock, a cold rock, in her heart.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:56 pm
But what is this hid in the fisherman's bag?
It smells like the ocean, it feels like the sea!
A bonny white sealskin closed up in the bag
And "Never a tear more!" cries she.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:03 pm
"Goodbye to the house and goodbye to the shore
Goodbye to the babes that I never could claim
But never a thought to the man left on shore
For selchie's my nature and name."
-The Ballad of the White Seal Maid by Mike Agranoff
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:14 pm
  Whooo yeah! The front page is up. Now all I have to do is fill out all the info...that could be awhile XD.
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 4:31 pm
I like the concept
its really interesting
I never heard of selkies
so far so good
I can't wait till your done here
also who did the art???
its really good :})
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:32 pm
Lol it was me.
I'm glad you haven't heard of selkies! That means maybe no one else had tried to do them already.XD
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