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Sidhe is the name that the fairies receive in the Irish mythology. It is said that they are high beings as a current man, of reserved customs and very powerful. Her Queen, Maeve, is so beautiful that for the mortal ones it can be dangerous to look at her.Some legends tell that these fairies are descendants from the ancient gods Tuatha of Dannan, and others assure that they are fallen angels, which were not bad enough to be sent to the hell.
This picture is my version of the Queen Maeve, with the forest around her.
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Artwork (c) Cris Ortega
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This is a beautiful picture, the detail is great especially on the wings. Although according to my friend Sidhe don't have wings, though he might be wrong in that I will have to look it up, but this picture is amazing, and I am such a huge fan of Irish Mythology especially about the Sidhe (people of the mounds) the Tuatha De Dannan and the Tir Na n'Og.
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Her wings are beautiful. Good job on the art work.
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The beautiful dark brown eyes and soft brown hair, the lovely silky white dress, the rainbow wings. Everything about this is lovely and perfect.
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My name's Maeve....XD
This is awesome, really, I love it!!
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REALLY???
WOAH!! You are the first Maeve besides myself that I've ever met!!!
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I KNOW!!!! I feel so connected to you now! xD
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I thought Sidhe referred to the gateways to fairyland under the hill, I thought faeries were referred to as the "shee"
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The myths I read about call "sidhe" at faeries too. But, you know, there's a lot of versions of myths so you can't know what's the correct one 
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Lovely! I love the flow of this picture, and the colors.
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You are my hero! 
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I love your work/
Thank you for sharing it so we all can see them
Zoya
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This is beautiful. I love the way you drew her dress. :favlove:
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It's beautiful and I really, really like how you drew the dress.
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WOW! She reminds me of Belle from Beauty and the Beast
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She looks so simple, and yet...that is a huge contribution to her beauty. Maybe it's just me.
Beautiful work. The background contrasts well. I love her dress.
The wings are definitely my favorite.
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Great work, I like the character! Her dress is beautiful and the wings are very well done. I like her face and her hair, the colours harmonize with each other.
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I love your depiction of yon Queen Maeva.
But did you know, Maeve or Medb was the Queen of Connaught who ruled over Sex, Drink and other forms of debauchery.
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No, I didn't know. I just know a few of stories about her; when I did the picture I couldn't found a lot of information about the legends, now there're dozens of webpages with them. Thank you very much for the link, I will read it right now
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your welcome, I've also got a great big book about ancient deities that comes in handy as well.
but, i still think that Maeve is a very beautiful name.
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how nice!!!!like it a lot, she look really pretty, everything is just perfect!
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Its wonderful...I love your gallery it's very exotic
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I absolutly love fairy Folklore and I have a book about the myth and legend of fairys. It mentions the Sidhe and the various courts of fairys. This is very lovely.I love the golden hues to it.
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Really gorgeous work! I was taken aback by this photos' realizm!
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extremely pretty and splendid!!! Her wings are lovely and the backgroundβs very well chosen . how enormously striking...* applauds politely* in awe of the art.
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i really luuuuv this, but i think the wings don't match. if you could make another one with wings that look like darkly colored dead leaves, that would b like the soolest thing ever...just my advice. still, this is great! nice work!!
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Beautiful, I'm speechless lady-Cris... o.O
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Her name might have been pronounced in english as "Maeve" is now but her real name was Mabd.
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Well, I always saw her name as Maeve, that's the reason why I write it like this. Thanks for telling me btw
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There's a series of books that involve the Sidhe. It's the Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton. You may like to read them if you like the Irish mythology. It has a modern/sexy twist on it.
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Thanks for telling me. I will try to find the books, I'm sure I will like them a lot
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Pretty ja!!!! I like her!!!
btw do you know about Leanan Sidhe in Irish myth?
I know Queen Maeve is fairy at night ja.
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