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[2010-10-28 06:58:30 +0000 UTC]
"Shadow Priest"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 335; Deviations: 69; Watchers: 7
Watching: 82; Pageviews: 10711; Comments Made: 310; Friends: 82
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: William Blake, John William WaterhouseFavorite movies: Mists of Avalon
Favorite TV shows: Game of Thrones, Camelot, Spartacus, Dexter
Favorite bands / musical artists: Loreena McKennitt
Favorite books: My Mystic and Occult library is HUGE
Favorite writers: Manly Palmer Hall
Favorite games: World of Warcraft: For the Alliance! Heresiarch Shadow Priest, Paganlord Death Knight
Tools of the Trade: Pencils, Brushes, Colors, Imagination
Other Interests: Mysticism, Nature, Arts
# About me
COMMISSIONS WANTED as of: 02 February 2011Sketches, Line Art, Full Color.
Please browse my Gallery for a sense of my styles and my website sites.google.com/site/wisdomsp⦠to view progressions from sketch to Finished work.
Thank you for your interest.
I am a Servant of the Secret Flame: My path is best described at Mystic. It includes, Mystery traditions of Egyptian and Greek origins as well as Qabala, Hermetic and Alchemy praxis, High Magick, Rosicrucian and Gnostic elements, all with a profound love of Nature and immanent divinity. I studied Healing and Divine integration under a Mistress for about a year, before she moved to Phoenix in 2002.
I'm about 1/3 of the way through a manuscript titled The Way of a Heretic, which should be ready for publishing by Beltane.
I am seen as a Priest, Elder and Fool and am active in whatever local pagan community I find myself in, but as a Solitary practitioner of late.
I experienced Death during Heart surgery in 1963 and found that I was able to capture inspiration through art at an early age. During my education my work was often honored by others and some was published, but these early works were destroyed by the Hells Angels in the High Desert of California over two decades ago. For almost twenty years my primary artistic endeavors were Bonsai.
As for my name...
My mundane and mystical names are essentially the same; I had a suspicion that my paternal grandfather was a "secret Jew," essentially a Jew who pretended to be Xtian when he emigrated from Ukraine during the Russian revolution. Years before I began my path, or the research for my book, one of my attorneys who is Jewish and whose family originates in the same general area as Ukraine (Southern Poland), informed me that the second part of my last name was the equivalent of Jacob, (yakob, phonetically). I later learned in my studies that the meaning of the name Jacob is Pillar and that the first part of my last name Zay (pronounce Zi w/long i) was a contraction of Zayin (Zi-en), which is the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Since letters also represent numbers in Hebrew, my last name literally means 7th Pillar. So, my mystic name: Alexander, 7th Pillar of Sophia, reflects the hidden meaning of my mundane name. And Sophia? Whose name means wisdom? Ahhh... she's the goddess I relate to best. There are 7 Pillars of Ancient Wisdom; the 7th is: "There is no Death."
As above,
So Below
L.V.X.
Shadow Priest
Current Residence: Great Lakes of Avalon
deviantWEAR sizing preference: Large
Personal Quote: There is no Death
# Comments
Comments: 86
You're very welcome. I've been away a while, please pardon my lack of comment as I relearn my way around.
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Beltaine Blessings to All!
May your inner fires burn as bright and hot as the season's bonefires.
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Your work has been featured here [link] as promised.
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Thanks so much. I wasn't expecting anything but the joy of submitting my work.
Thanks again.
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You are most welcome.
So nice when the unexpected can bring joy as well.
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Congratulations for winning the competition!
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Thank you so much!
Since this was the first time I ever entered a piece into a competition I never expected anything more than than great critiques to learn from.
It's an incredible honor on two counts, because it comes from fellow artists and because it comes from Pagan kin.
Thank you all for your support and guidance.
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You're welcome. It was well deserved and you did a great piece so I should be thanking you!
I'm just glad it worked out for you so much 
I hope you join in on other competitions! It'd be lovely to see what else you make.
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Hi there!
Blessed Ostara!
Long time...
...haven't had a chance to wade though all the deviations in my inbox. But I bet you have something wonderful hiding in there for me to discover.
I have the convention piece to finish up, then for something a bit more inspired.
A7
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Blessed Ostara to you as well my friend
Actually, I haven't finished anything since The Shaman 
I'm working on one, but it's taking me a long time. I'm doing a painting for a friend on here...as the Goddess Selket. I'm having a great time with it...but it's taking forever. I just finished up the scorpion on her headdress. I'm working on her dress, trying to make it look like pleated filmy gauze...but it's really hard to do. Eventually I'll get it done. Some of them fly by and others take me forever. I have to decide what to do for the background as well.
I also want to do something for Walpurgis/Mayday. I have tons of ideas...just never enough time.
How's the new job going? Hope all is well and you're that much closer to your tablet 
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Thanks for the fav and sorry for the late answer !
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Thank you...
... I came upon a piece that used your Portrait Outside as a reference/model and just had to check out more of your work. Absolutely beautiful. I'm hoping I'll have reason to ask permission to reference your work moving forward.
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Thank you, great you like my work. Would be a pleasure, you will reference my work.
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Thank you for the favorites. Fantastic gallery you have here. Keep up the good work.
Peace!
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Happy Birthday Alex! 
Hope you have a wonderful day 
Bright blessings
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Thanks so much!
Boy, for being a hermit, I sure get a lot of Blessings.
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Thank you so much for the 
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Thanks for the interest in "Nautilus".
Your "Avalon" series are serene and beautiful.
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Thanks so much, we took hundreds of photos of the dawn in that beautiful spot over the course of six moons. While we don't think of ourself as a photographer, the eye of an artist sometimes sees the beauty that others do not.
Love the nautilus; would love to use it as a model but don't know that we'll ever get a chance to. The beauty of the work is more than enough.
Thanks again.
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Wow! Honoured to be favourited by you. Thanks
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