The Burning Flame Nekht-åakh
What some people put down to 'coincidence' is usually neither that nor chance.
I've always known more than I ought by rights. Sometimes I can't even tell you before the question is asked, because the answer only pops into my mind just before I must answer...and it's correct. I'm as surprised as anyone whenever this happens.
This isn't so much 'psychic ability, although I have demonstrated that in the past, too, so much as it is an informing from what I say is God. No doubt others would say it's my 'higher self', but I somehow doubt anything to do with 'me' could be that much higher than what you see/what you get when you know me. I'm not so special.
I do, however, believe that artists are much more knowledgeable than they are generally given credit for, if only because an artist's purpose is to "...show others what they have missed." Call us "keen observers" or "big picture" people, perhaps. Most of us are not good with the nitty details, but we know what it all means.
Hence, despite the Scots declaring their descent from the Scythians, modern archaeologists and historians poo-pooh the idea the Scythians were ever anywhere near the Scots race. It's called a 'myth'. And yet, anyone with two eyes and the ability to see the pattern can look at collections of Scythian art from 1000 BC and immediately see the Pictish designs-many not changed at all-in 900 AD are alike in every respect. The styles, the symbols, the meanings are all nearly identical. Even the Scythian pectorals are not so different from torcs.
That said, I've just had another one of those connections. As is plain by now, I connected early on with the Pictish name of 'Nechtan', which means 'bright or shining one' in Pictish. It seemed the perfect name for an Elf of Pictish descent who would end up the Flame Warrior. Just as a joke, I had his name be 'Necht' in his gryphon-friend's tongue, but to the gryph the name meant 'force or strength'.
There is another myth, also expounded by those independent Scots when they released the Declaration of Arbroath: that Tea was the daughter of pharoah in Egypt and she was the one who brought Lia Fál, the Stone of Destiny with her to the land that would be known as Alba.
Imagine my glee when I discovered today that 'Nekht-åakh' means 'bright or shining strength'. It's pronounced almost exactly as 'Nechtan' is, with the 'ch' being pronounced like the German 'ch' as a hard aspiration at the back of the throat in both cases. I didn't plan that; I didn't know that before today.
I don't believe in 'coincidence'. I believe in fate and destiny.
To that idea I raise a glass and cheer! My Tree of Life pendant arrived today and was at least twice the size I expected it to be, so I'm even more pleased and proud to own it. It's scaled for 'my size', since I don't 'do' delicate or dainty jewellery. (Remember, even when I weighed only 115 pounds I was a gangly and tall 5'10" with long legs and long arms. "Dainty" has never been in my vocabulary.) It's a gorgeous, heavy piece of silver, despite its being pierced through and the design done in 3-D with very little support framework to obscure the background.
Nechtan :)
I've always known more than I ought by rights. Sometimes I can't even tell you before the question is asked, because the answer only pops into my mind just before I must answer...and it's correct. I'm as surprised as anyone whenever this happens.
This isn't so much 'psychic ability, although I have demonstrated that in the past, too, so much as it is an informing from what I say is God. No doubt others would say it's my 'higher self', but I somehow doubt anything to do with 'me' could be that much higher than what you see/what you get when you know me. I'm not so special.
I do, however, believe that artists are much more knowledgeable than they are generally given credit for, if only because an artist's purpose is to "...show others what they have missed." Call us "keen observers" or "big picture" people, perhaps. Most of us are not good with the nitty details, but we know what it all means.
Hence, despite the Scots declaring their descent from the Scythians, modern archaeologists and historians poo-pooh the idea the Scythians were ever anywhere near the Scots race. It's called a 'myth'. And yet, anyone with two eyes and the ability to see the pattern can look at collections of Scythian art from 1000 BC and immediately see the Pictish designs-many not changed at all-in 900 AD are alike in every respect. The styles, the symbols, the meanings are all nearly identical. Even the Scythian pectorals are not so different from torcs.
That said, I've just had another one of those connections. As is plain by now, I connected early on with the Pictish name of 'Nechtan', which means 'bright or shining one' in Pictish. It seemed the perfect name for an Elf of Pictish descent who would end up the Flame Warrior. Just as a joke, I had his name be 'Necht' in his gryphon-friend's tongue, but to the gryph the name meant 'force or strength'.
There is another myth, also expounded by those independent Scots when they released the Declaration of Arbroath: that Tea was the daughter of pharoah in Egypt and she was the one who brought Lia Fál, the Stone of Destiny with her to the land that would be known as Alba.
Imagine my glee when I discovered today that 'Nekht-åakh' means 'bright or shining strength'. It's pronounced almost exactly as 'Nechtan' is, with the 'ch' being pronounced like the German 'ch' as a hard aspiration at the back of the throat in both cases. I didn't plan that; I didn't know that before today.
I don't believe in 'coincidence'. I believe in fate and destiny.
To that idea I raise a glass and cheer! My Tree of Life pendant arrived today and was at least twice the size I expected it to be, so I'm even more pleased and proud to own it. It's scaled for 'my size', since I don't 'do' delicate or dainty jewellery. (Remember, even when I weighed only 115 pounds I was a gangly and tall 5'10" with long legs and long arms. "Dainty" has never been in my vocabulary.) It's a gorgeous, heavy piece of silver, despite its being pierced through and the design done in 3-D with very little support framework to obscure the background.
Nechtan :)