#naiades

[charnel-grounds]

Charles Rebel Stanton (1890–1954)

“The fountains where the Naiades bedew, their shining hair, at length drained and dried”

pencil & watercolour, n.d. — source

[fougere-noire]

started reading fablehaven so here's a moodboard

[chaichai-draws]

A little sea monster/naiad drawing

[percabeth4life]

If you would you think a naiad looks like ? Because the only images I see are of normal looking women

Well I imagine they would look similar to a normal woman, but slightly too beautiful, hair moving like underwater despite being on land, skin shining like damp at all times, eyes reflecting the light just off. Their steps would be too smooth, they don't seem to breathe through their mouth and nose. Their chest is a dash too still.

A lot of what I think they'd look like different from mortals would be just- behavior, slight key differences that make you pause and know they're just a bit other. Just a bit more than human. I think that their state of being would also reflect the state of their river.

[haremask]

geosophia: the argo of magic (vol 2), jake stratton-kent

[starofmithras]

To the Naiades

Art: Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse (1896)

Come, O nurturing Naiades, Grant me the gift of inspiration To praise you properly with my song. With solemnity and reverence I ask you to partake of its expression And bless it with poetry. Come, O flowing ones, Defenders of purifying founts, Come from your freshwater abodes In lake and river and stream, Come and swim in the flood of my words, Come with favor and furnish my prayer With phosphorescence sacred and pure. Please hear the meaning of my fervent plea, And heed this beckoning for your gracious return.

Harken, O Heleionomai and Pegaiai! Listen, O Limnades and Limnatides! Do you not hear Pan’s call? Wake from your ephemeral sleep, Below the thick crust of razor edge ice. Out of slumber primordial Be roused from beds of soft hydrophyte And turn to the beckoning light of great Helios’ orb. O sinewy nymphs of wave and foam, Break through the shards of the cold grasp of Boreas And breathe warm vapors into the atmosphere. Cut through the particles of Chione’s creation That covers slumbering Gaia and delays her stirring. Melt all transitory matter that would keep the world in limbo, And push our ever-changing sphere into its next glorious phase.

I beg of you, O possessors of caprice, Return charming Hylas to the shore. Advise sweet Aristaeus in making amends, And tend to Dionysos reborn. I plead to you, O keepers of moss and lily, Hurry the Spring and let frigid Winter’s reign Be ended by warmth and fecundity. I pray to you, O charming and elusive ones, Grace your watery oases once more With garlands of flowers and blooms. With your effortless fluidity, Bring fervor and life back To a world bound in hoary frost.

Let us once more see your dances, O bright ones, May we once more hear your songs.

[norsmythart]

ARTHUR RACKHAM + 1867-1939 + THE RING 

[dark-water-siren]

Naiades by Natalie Shau