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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
Also, mostly I would imagine her with bat wings rather than feathered (but that makes these pictures more interesting, as an innovative idea).
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Me too. Just these are meant to be birds, not bats.
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Originally Posted by Legate
Actually, what are these? Because I am sure I have seen them somewhere very recently.
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These are pictures of the birds from Slavic mythology. The second one is the bird Alkonost, and the first is either Alkonost or Sirin depending on who you ask; it's a fragment of Vasnecov's painting of both of them. There are two versions about these birds that I know of: one, that Alkonost is the bird of joy, and Sirin sings joyful songs that lure you into darkness and death (so she's the dark one). The other is that Sirin sings of happiness and Alkonost of sorrow (and also, that Alkonost makes a great storm when she flies above - the reasoning behind the second picture). So depending on which version you follow, the bird in the first picture is either Alkonost or Sirin. Here's the full painting:
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(Anyway, the second one looks also a bit like Agan.  ) |
EDIT: I did some research, and the second picture is actually Vasnecov's painting of Gamayun, not Alkonost. My bad.