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Myrea Pettit

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Having travelled from the successful Faerieworlds Festival in Oregon , via Chicago to Zurich to Barcelona and to the bus terminal within half a mile of their home our very dear friends and musicians and FAE cover girl, Priscilla Hernandez, and her partner Hector, were the victims of a daylight robbery in which all of their equipment and money was stolen.

It is at times like this when we need to come together and help those in need, in any small way we can.

So, on both sides of the faery pond, we are pulling together to help get Priscilla and Hector back onto their faery feet again, so they can buy new equipment to create even more of their beautiful music.

There are various ways to donate:

* Direct donation to Priscilla via Paypal
* Buy the debut copy of FAE (all proceeds from first 100 copies sold go directly to Priscilla)
* Donate via the Faerieworlds website appeal.

Here follows an extract from Priscilla’s post on my faeryspace

“…Just as soon as we stepped from the airbus airport two big guys attacked us robbed all our studio equipment and personal belongings, they poured a substance over us and they wanted the black case in which we carried all important things, so we’ve been stolen all the cash we made in faerieworlds, our laptop, our mobile studio and soundcard, our photocamera, our hardrive with our data, our videocamera, all our memories, our flat and car keys, our passports, and almost everything of value I had with me, thanks god they didn’t took my carry on so my original paintings are safe. I’m pretty sure we were spotted and they did know which case they wanted…” Priscilla Hernandez

Priscilla Hernandez, Spanish ethereal Gothic singer-songwriter and fantasy illustrator will premier in USA next 1st and 2nd of August in the FAERIEWORLDS FESTIVAL (Oregon, USA). Priscilla won the award as best new age album with Ancient Shadows (IMA AWARDS) and also as nominee as best new age vocalist in Los Angeles music awards.
In Faerieworlds she will be presented by the designer of movies like The Dark Crystal and Into the Labyrinth, Brian Froud, and she will count with the help of musicians from Woodland and Trillian Green on the stage. And she will open for Woodland in the Good fairy day and for the German band Qntal in the Bad fairy day. Live the legend!

The UK’s very own fairy magazine, ‘FAE’ Fairies and Enchantment, is dedicated to the faerie scene in Britain, Europe and around the faerie world!. Issue 4, the Autumn 2008 edition features art by Amy Brown, Jean-Baptiste Monge, Myrea Pettit, and Sally Jacob. Autumn cover girl is Vicky Baume photographed by Gareth Partington. FAE Magazine is produced, published and printed entirely in the UK.

Order here

The most amazing coincidence with a full moon 19th June followed with the Summer Solstice on the 20th. Famous Fairy artist Myrea Pettit has chosen this moment to show her latest image to the world. It shows an innocent child who will become ‘The Messenger,’ peering between the trees from her dark drab world. To her surprise she has her first sighting of fairies, a world of fantasy, of love and light, something to believe in, she is now able to tell others of its existence. There in front of her is one of natures endangered species the Cinnamon Humming Bird with its’ guardian Cinnamon Fairy and creatures that give soul to childhood and a belief that shines brightly, reflecting in her eyes. It is the moment of pure magic, of a true connection to the energies of Mother Earth and nature itself, and as any good fairy lover knows, full moon or a Solstice are prime times to perchance upon the faeries. The 2008 summer solstice officially is at 7:59 p.m. in the Northern Hemisphere for USA and 23:59 in UK.

The solstice is the alignment of objects out in space that potentially produces the most sunlight of any day of the year — about 15 hours between sunrise and sunset today depending on the weather in your area. It is the arrival of summer.

The June 20th/21st (the time varies slightly each year) is the start of Summer Solstice. About three days after the solstice itself June 24th is known as Midsummer’s Day which is also World Fairy Day, and St. John’s Feast Day,it is observed by Northern Europeans and Anglophones also it is a cultural, Pagan, Christian celebration that marks the Ancient middle of Summer called by others names, L?go, Litha, Ivan Kupala Day, the astronomical beginning of Summer, and the nativity of St. John the Baptist. There are great celebrations with fairy festivals, bonfires, feasting, singing, and Maypole dancing

The Magic Voice of Buenaventura

Bursting on to the ‘New Age’ Faery Scene Buenaventura Braunstein born and trained in New York and now living in Germany a greatly talented Multi-Arts-Artist. Her music influences are Celtic, Classical, Medieval, Occidental and Oriental. Her work deals with the genres of Fairies, Diwans, Spirits, Legends, Mythology and of course Women of many Cultures and languages.

Her present work is titled: WOMEN WERE ALSO KNIGHTS” and is based on Fairies, Legends & Mythology

“TOMORROW I’LL DANCE WITH LA KEE
“GARIE”
“KISS HIM WITH LIFE”

See her on the music platform look for: “VOICES OF TWILIGHT”

BURBANK, Calif. –Disney Interactive Studios today announced Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell for Nintendo DS™ will be available nationwide this 2008 holiday season. For the first time on the handheld platform, fans of Disney Fairies and beloved Tinker Bell can explore the delightful world of Pixie Hollow and play as the popular Fairy herself.

Disney Fairies has become a phenomenon all around the world,” said Craig Relyea, senior vice president of global marketing, Disney Interactive Studios. “Bringing the game to DS allows fans to play as Tinker Bell and take the Fairies world everywhere they go, while having fun learning about the importance of creativity, teamwork and responsibility.”

The game will let users play as Tinker Bell and interact with other NPC fairies through quests and games, but the handheld game is also a deeper extension of the Web-based virtual world. Users can collect accessories and outfits to customize Tinker Bell, create their own designs and patterns to dress in, and trade and gift items with other users as well.

The handheld game will integrate with Disney’s recently launched DGamer, a sort of meta-world tying all of its Nintendo DS titles together through avatars, communication, and Web-based interaction. It seems like DGamer will let users take their trading past the DS and onto the Web as well as communicating in a themed chat room.

In December 2001 Christopher Wilkinson wrote to me from Canada to offer me an explanation for my name Myrea (pronounced incidentally as Maria). Seven years have passed and I have never received a better explanation. I took a look here today and still draw a blank, certainly it would appear to originate from Celtic Ireland. Yes I have come across one or two others christened Myrea, we all share the same origination problem. There is a character Myrea in a role playing game, as well as a star in a distant constellation. Now with millions more using the web I get asked the question often maybe there is someone out there who may offer up an alternative suggestion than Christopher did all those years ago. I would be pleased to hear from you as I dance in the sea,

Myrea

From Christopher Wilkinson Dec 2001

If I’m not mistaken, Myrea comes from the Greek root for the same word that in french is Mer, or “the sea,” with the feminine singular nominalizer –“ea” added. Woman of the Sea??
One related name I know is Prelea. Prel/ea.
Lots of these names found their way into Irish Celtic and Gaelic areas, probably in the course of the shipping/trade between Scandanavia (Vikings/norsemen), the British Isles, and then down around Gibraltar to the ports of Greece and Italy, Alexandria, etc.

If I had the time to look deep
Through the books of lore
I know I would look first for King Neptune
And find the Sea Queen’s name
Think of the Mer, the Myr, and so
The Mermaid is too simple for the name, me thinks it well,
And the trident sea lord with his moon crown glowing
Would be the direction I’d seek the knowing I fear there might be confusion where
The myrtle groves are brought to bear
But the myrtle is the herb of the moon
And the moon is the mistress of the sea
And those wise in the ways of nature
Would know these things well
Do tell,
Whence came thee
And whither thy name and blood
For thence are the secrets of these name
Where the Gaul and the Greek together are bonded in blood
From a time long long before
The Roman Gaulish war
And the peoples of the moors held long the ancient lore
And the names of things from long before
The egret “y” is telling If it’s not a new-age spelling
For the mer was the myr and the linn was the lyn
And so go the names of middle English to now,
While the Greek grammar endings were held for the few
With learning, or with blood ties old
To the Mediterranean fold
Your name is probably the sea queen, the moon,
The mistress of the wax and waning of the light of the night
And so I might find told If I had the time
To check these old books of mine.

“This is why I keep telling anyone younger than me, don’t imagine you’ll have it forever.
“Use it while you’ve got it because it’ll go, it’s sliding away like water down a plughole.”

Doris Lessing (Nobel Prize Winner for Literature)

I don‘t have any energy any more.

Keep dancing into light Doris, your powerful few words are stimulating !

It was interesting to read a BBC report about waving flowers however If only the scientists who think they made the discovery that flowers wave while studying common wildflowers known as sea campion (Silene maritima) on the Welsh coast understood they were observing energies on the threshold of the Fairyworld.

They are correct about the waving but it is for reasons they would not understand. There among the flowers will be the fairies, these are the dancing partners that cause the waving. There are but a few humans that see let alone feel this connection of energy to dance into light.

John Warren the scientist from the University of Aberystwyth who made the observation should recall that he was at his daughter’s birthday party and in a hallowed Celtic area. The energies of children would connect to the Earth and the immediate surroundings making a perfect place for the connection to Faery, the excitement would stimulate the surrounding area of natures insects, nectar production, scents and attraction for pollination and seeding.