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Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 39 - Harpy
Welcome to the thirty-ninth issue of my fantasy features news article! I hope you enjoy it, and please, show the featured artists some love and recognition through pageviews, 's and 's!
If you like this article, please show support by clicking the heart icon on the left to add it to your favorites. Thanks!
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This week's creature feature is: Harpy
From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy :
In Greek mythology, a harpy ("snatcher", from Latin: harpeia) was one of the winged spirits best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineas.
Phineas, a king of Thrace, had the gift of prophecy. Zeus, angry that Phineas revealed too much, punished him by blinding him and putting him on an island with a buffet of food which he could never eat. The harpies always arrived and stole the food out of his hands before he could satisfy his hunger, and befouled the remains of his food.
In this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus. They were vicious, cruel and violent. They were usually seen as the personifications of the destructive nature of wind.
Harpies remained vivid in the Middle Ages. In his Inferno, XIII, Dante envisages the tortured wood infested with harpies:
Here the repellent harpies make their nests,
Who drove the Trojans from the Strophades
With dire announcements of the coming woe.
They have broad wings, a human neck and face,
Clawed feet and swollen, feathered bellies; they caw
Their lamentations in the eerie trees.
Note: There is great confusion surrounding the difference between harpies and sirens. Due to wanting to keep this article within a decently readable length, I will not discuss the differences/similarities here. This article is at it's core about bird/women hybrids, and the harpy is the most popular. So please forgive me if your art is labeled "siren", I just wanted to include awesome bird/women art!
Now, for the features! Works are featured from various categories, in no particular order:
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Thank you so much for viewing, and come back next time for a different inhabitant of the Realms of Fantasy and Myth!
~Arah
Previous Issues:
Week 1 - Unicorns: news.deviantart.com/article/78…
Week 2 - Merfolk: news.deviantart.com/article/79…
Week 3 - Eastern Dragons: news.deviantart.com/article/79…
Week 4 - Kitsune: news.deviantart.com/article/80…
Week 5 - Alicorn: news.deviantart.com/article/81…
Week 6 - Gnomes: news.deviantart.com/article/82…
Week 7 - Tanuki: news.deviantart.com/article/83…
Week 8 - Centaurs: news.deviantart.com/article/84…
Week 9 - Special Edition: news.deviantart.com/article/84…
Week 10 - Orcs: news.deviantart.com/article/85…
Week 11 - Dryad: news.deviantart.com/article/87…
Week 12 - Halflings: news.deviantart.com/article/87…
Week 13 - Elves: news.deviantart.com/article/88…
Week 14 - Faeries: news.deviantart.com/article/92…
Week 15 - Vampires: news.deviantart.com/article/93…
Week 16 - Sphinx: news.deviantart.com/article/94…
Week 17 - Griffin: news.deviantart.com/article/94…
Week 18 - Phoenix: news.deviantart.com/article/95…
Week 19 - Djinn: news.deviantart.com/article/97…
Week 20 - Werewolves: news.deviantart.com/article/97…
Week 21 - Selkie: news.deviantart.com/article/98…
Week 22 - Gargoyles: news.deviantart.com/article/99…
Week 23 - Western Dragons: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 24 - Drow: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 25 - Yeti: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 26 - Kirin: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 27 - Satyr: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 28 - Hippocampus: news.deviantart.com/article/11…
Week 29 - Manticore: news.deviantart.com/article/11…
Week 30 - Leprechauns: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 31 - Pegasus: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 32 - Lamia: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 33 - Kelpie: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 34 - Water Nymphs: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 35 - Kraken: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 36 - Recaps! Part 1: news.deviantart.com/article/16…
Week 36 - Recaps! Part 2: news.deviantart.com/article/16…
Week 38 - Loch Ness Monster: news.deviantart.com/article/16…
Welcome to the thirty-ninth issue of my fantasy features news article! I hope you enjoy it, and please, show the featured artists some love and recognition through pageviews, 's and 's!
If you like this article, please show support by clicking the heart icon on the left to add it to your favorites. Thanks!
*****************************************************************************************************************************************************************
This week's creature feature is: Harpy
From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy :
In Greek mythology, a harpy ("snatcher", from Latin: harpeia) was one of the winged spirits best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineas.
Phineas, a king of Thrace, had the gift of prophecy. Zeus, angry that Phineas revealed too much, punished him by blinding him and putting him on an island with a buffet of food which he could never eat. The harpies always arrived and stole the food out of his hands before he could satisfy his hunger, and befouled the remains of his food.
In this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus. They were vicious, cruel and violent. They were usually seen as the personifications of the destructive nature of wind.
Harpies remained vivid in the Middle Ages. In his Inferno, XIII, Dante envisages the tortured wood infested with harpies:
Here the repellent harpies make their nests,
Who drove the Trojans from the Strophades
With dire announcements of the coming woe.
They have broad wings, a human neck and face,
Clawed feet and swollen, feathered bellies; they caw
Their lamentations in the eerie trees.
Note: There is great confusion surrounding the difference between harpies and sirens. Due to wanting to keep this article within a decently readable length, I will not discuss the differences/similarities here. This article is at it's core about bird/women hybrids, and the harpy is the most popular. So please forgive me if your art is labeled "siren", I just wanted to include awesome bird/women art!
Now, for the features! Works are featured from various categories, in no particular order:
:thumb95295083:
:thumb51707499:
:thumb50517246:
:thumb206859240:
:thumb24893880:
:thumb253414844: :thumb217711885:
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Thank you so much for viewing, and come back next time for a different inhabitant of the Realms of Fantasy and Myth!
~Arah
Previous Issues:
Week 1 - Unicorns: news.deviantart.com/article/78…
Week 2 - Merfolk: news.deviantart.com/article/79…
Week 3 - Eastern Dragons: news.deviantart.com/article/79…
Week 4 - Kitsune: news.deviantart.com/article/80…
Week 5 - Alicorn: news.deviantart.com/article/81…
Week 6 - Gnomes: news.deviantart.com/article/82…
Week 7 - Tanuki: news.deviantart.com/article/83…
Week 8 - Centaurs: news.deviantart.com/article/84…
Week 9 - Special Edition: news.deviantart.com/article/84…
Week 10 - Orcs: news.deviantart.com/article/85…
Week 11 - Dryad: news.deviantart.com/article/87…
Week 12 - Halflings: news.deviantart.com/article/87…
Week 13 - Elves: news.deviantart.com/article/88…
Week 14 - Faeries: news.deviantart.com/article/92…
Week 15 - Vampires: news.deviantart.com/article/93…
Week 16 - Sphinx: news.deviantart.com/article/94…
Week 17 - Griffin: news.deviantart.com/article/94…
Week 18 - Phoenix: news.deviantart.com/article/95…
Week 19 - Djinn: news.deviantart.com/article/97…
Week 20 - Werewolves: news.deviantart.com/article/97…
Week 21 - Selkie: news.deviantart.com/article/98…
Week 22 - Gargoyles: news.deviantart.com/article/99…
Week 23 - Western Dragons: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 24 - Drow: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 25 - Yeti: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 26 - Kirin: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 27 - Satyr: news.deviantart.com/article/10…
Week 28 - Hippocampus: news.deviantart.com/article/11…
Week 29 - Manticore: news.deviantart.com/article/11…
Week 30 - Leprechauns: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 31 - Pegasus: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 32 - Lamia: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 33 - Kelpie: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 34 - Water Nymphs: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 35 - Kraken: news.deviantart.com/article/12…
Week 36 - Recaps! Part 1: news.deviantart.com/article/16…
Week 36 - Recaps! Part 2: news.deviantart.com/article/16…
Week 38 - Loch Ness Monster: news.deviantart.com/article/16…
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As you probably noticed, I'm not really active on here very much right now (I'm always logged in, so even if it says I'm here I'm probably not).
Nothing awful going on, just lots of things keeping me busy. So I'll be flitting in every now and then to weed through messages, but I'm basically taking a break from DA for a little while.
Take care, everyone!
~Arah
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter, everyone! Take just a moment today to remember what the holiday is about, it's easy to forget the triumphant story when surrounded by chocolate bunnies XD
Oh, and don't make yourselves TOO sick on candy ;P
Later!
~Arah
Playing Catch-Up
I haven't really done much in the way of art for awhile, but I thought I would go ahead and upload what I have done. Expect random updates here and there while I upload everything whenever I get a spare moment! XD
Later!
~Arah
Love and/or Chocolates
To those of you who celebrate it, happy Valentine's Day! ~redheart-plz (https://www.deviantart.com/redheart-plz) :iconbunnykissuplz: :iconredheart-plz:
To those of you who don't, happy Day-After-Valentine's-Day-Cheap-Chocolate Day! :iconredheart-plz: :iconchocolate2plz: :iconredheart-plz:
And to those of us in the Southern USA - Well, we'll get our Valentine's Day when we thaw out >_< :iconsnowballdownplz:
Later!
~Arah
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Very Nice! My $ Harpy is in a happy place. I had forgotten my account for a while. Wish I had found this link a while back when I was looking for information for some of my designs. Finding things on the web is difficult with so much spam. Two creatures that I was looking for isn't on here yet, the Imp(although I think this is under the fairies banner, I was thinking of a little devil) and the Gargoyle. The Capricorn too.