#sielulintu

[kmmarttila]

Ice Queen

Really putting pain into painting with this one. Painting this took forever, because I had to learn how to paint: 1) ice magic 2) sparkly fabric 3) less overwhelming foliage and shrubs. All this on top of composing a group scene of a fight which I have never done before. All thing considered this turned out rather well.

I might post the planning stage studies, progress pictures and details later if I can figure out how to format them properly. I have a hand full of all kinds of sketches, studies, pictures and screenshots in every shape.

[rahcomics]

Inktober. Prompt: Star. The Soul Birds (Sielulintu) are flying along the Linnunrata (Milky Way). I used gold Acrylic Ink to make the star and highlights glitter.

[mythologiauralica-blog]

Sielulintu - Soul Bird

Sielulintu ‘Soul Bird’ is a very important part of Uralic folklore and mythology. Birds in general have been seen as signs, sometimes about death, sometimes something else. Sielulintu however, is a different kind of bird than our typical birds; it carries a soul on it’s breast or sometimes, it is a soul in bird form. This kind of folklore about this bird is found all over in Finno-Ugric and Uralic tradition.

In Finnish tradition, when the soul of a human leaves the mortal body, it takes the form of a bird. This soul was the Ruumissielu ‘Body Soul’, which left the body after death. These birds are called soul birds, whom travel north, to the Alinen ‘a place under’. It was believed that Alinen was a place somewhere in the north and that the dead lived there. The wandering of the soul birds was seen as a light ring in the sky, the Milky Way (in Finnish Linnunrata ‘way of the bird’).

Sielulintu is also the name of Sugri ry’s web newspaper. Sugri is the student organization of students who study Finno-Ugric languages at University of Turku, in Finland.

[petitepointplace]

"In Karelia there was an ancient belief in the Sielulintu or Soul bird. It was believed the Sielulintu protected a person's soul at its most vulnerable when dreaming. It was tradition to keep a carved wooden bird by the bedside to keep the soul safe during sleep.

[sohjooart]

Some postcards made of my old sticker designs

[coloursthatliebeneath]

I love how it turned out!

[petitepointplace]

In Karelia there is an ancient belief in the Sielulintu (Soul bird) is part of our human soul. The Sielulintu protects a person's human soul at its most vulnerable time when dreaming. It is a tradition to keep a carved wooden bird by the bedside to keep you protected with 'intention'.                

[norskieman]

Soul Birds by Sanna Annukka #sannaannukka #soulbird #sielulintu #finnish