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Another wonderful stock artist. Which I found just browsing through DA.

Afterwork: First the flames in her eye. Which was really just a throw away shot. No big deal there, and it was easy. LOL. I say that today, last year, yes I've been here a year now. I had no clue. Anyway. More filters to create the flame effect the rough surface of her skin, and the motion. Eye Candy for the rough surface, Motion blur for the streak of the smoke, and a warming filter. For the overall orange color.

Brighid, The Celtic Goddess of Fire.

A patron of warfare or Briga. Her soldiers were called Brigands. Her name means "Exalted One."

In her earliest incarnation, as Breo-Saighit, she was called the Flame of Ireland, Fiery Arrow. She was a Goddess of the forge as well, reflecting on her fire aspect. Legend says that when She was born, a tower of flame reaching from the top of her head to the heavens. Her birth, which took place at sunrise, is rumored to have given the family house the appearance of being on fire.

For many centuries, there were 19 virgins (originally priestesses and later nuns) who tended Her eternal flame at Kildare. There they are said to have sung this song (until the 18th century):

"Bride, excellent woman, sudden flame, may the fiery, bright sun take us to the lasting kingdom."

These women were the virgin daughters of the Fire and were called Inghean au dagha; but, as fire-keepers, were Breochwidh. The Brudins, a place of magical cauldron and perpetual fires, disappeared when Christianity took hold. "Being in the Brudins" now means in the fairies. Brigid's shrine at Kildare was active into the 18th century. It was closed down by the monarchy. Originally cared for by nineteen virgins, when the Pagan Brighid was Sainted, the care of her shrine fell to Catholic nuns. The fire was extinguished once in the thirteenth century and was relit until Henry VIII of England set about supressing the monastaries. (8) Sister Mary Minchin, a Brigedian nun at Kildaire relit the flame on Febuary 2, 1996 and the intention is to keep it burning perpetually once again.

In an ancient Irish text Giraldus Cambrensis, she and nineteen of her nuns took turns in guarding a sacred fire which burned perpetually and was surrounded by a hedge within which no male might enter. According to the Irish Text "The Book of Dunn Cow," Brighid's sacred number was nineteen, representing the nineteen year cycle of the Celtic Great Year, the time it took from one new moon to the next to coincide with the Winter Solstice. It was believed though, that on the twentieth day of each cycle Brighid herself would tend the flame.

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Description
Another wonderful stock artist. Which I found just browsing through DA.

Afterwork: First the flames in her eye. Which was really just a throw away shot. No big deal there, and it was easy. LOL. I say that today, last year, yes I've been here a year now. I had no clue. Anyway. More filters to create the flame effect the rough surface of her skin, and the motion. Eye Candy for the rough surface, Motion blur for the streak of the smoke, and a warming filter. For the overall orange color.

Brighid, The Celtic Goddess of Fire.

A patron of warfare or Briga. Her soldiers were called Brigands. Her name means "Exalted One."

In her earliest incarnation, as Breo-Saighit, she was called the Flame of Ireland, Fiery Arrow. She was a Goddess of the forge as well, reflecting on her fire aspect. Legend says that when She was born, a tower of flame reaching from the top of her head to the heavens. Her birth, which took place at sunrise, is rumored to have given the family house the appearance of being on fire.

For many centuries, there were 19 virgins (originally priestesses and later nuns) who tended Her eternal flame at Kildare. There they are said to have sung this song (until the 18th century):

"Bride, excellent woman, sudden flame, may the fiery, bright sun take us to the lasting kingdom."

These women were the virgin daughters of the Fire and were called Inghean au dagha; but, as fire-keepers, were Breochwidh. The Brudins, a place of magical cauldron and perpetual fires, disappeared when Christianity took hold. "Being in the Brudins" now means in the fairies. Brigid's shrine at Kildare was active into the 18th century. It was closed down by the monarchy. Originally cared for by nineteen virgins, when the Pagan Brighid was Sainted, the care of her shrine fell to Catholic nuns. The fire was extinguished once in the thirteenth century and was relit until Henry VIII of England set about supressing the monastaries. (8) Sister Mary Minchin, a Brigedian nun at Kildaire relit the flame on Febuary 2, 1996 and the intention is to keep it burning perpetually once again.

In an ancient Irish text Giraldus Cambrensis, she and nineteen of her nuns took turns in guarding a sacred fire which burned perpetually and was surrounded by a hedge within which no male might enter. According to the Irish Text "The Book of Dunn Cow," Brighid's sacred number was nineteen, representing the nineteen year cycle of the Celtic Great Year, the time it took from one new moon to the next to coincide with the Winter Solstice. It was believed though, that on the twentieth day of each cycle Brighid herself would tend the flame.

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