Welcome to the magical, mysterious, heroic, tragic, and hauntingly familiar world of the Sidhe. In The Queen’s Rune and Other Tales of the Sidhe, Shannon Avery takes readers on a mystical journey through the millennia-old culture of humanity’s closest cousins. The original tale of the Garden of Eden unfolds in epic poetry; a lonely “vampire” sings of her pain; the Sidhe Merlyn defies his Queen and his beloved to win one last battle and become the first of the Forsaken Ones. Through it all winds the lyrical artwork of fantasy artist Danae Bentley.Buy on Amazon
Long before Tir Na N’og was divided from the human world, before Rhiannon defeated the Formorii or Kali wove her magical tapestry of tales, the Sidhe were One. The First Age was the age of the Capercaille, the lemur-like ancestors of the Sidhe, who lived in complete harmony with the Gřa. For millions of years, they played and loved on the island of Annwn, until one fateful night when the Ast’ir Mah’rhi fell from the sky and changed the history of the world forever. The door is open…come hear the tale of the greatest blessing ever bestowed upon the world…and the greatest curse. So begins the saga of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the People of Dah’nu, which tells the very first story ever told. Herein lies the creation of the Sidhe, the starting point for a million years of mystery, tragedy, and magic. Buy it on Amazon.
Come read the stories, poems, and songs from the Second Age of the people known in Celtic folklore as the Tuatha de Danann. After the destruction of Their homeland in Anwnn, the Sidhe find adventure and danger in a new land. The stories and poems herein are some of the most iconic pieces of the Second Age of the Fae, considered the Age of Legends by Siofralogists. Buy on Amazon
The Sidhe World Project
The Sidhe World project began twenty-five years ago among a group of English, psychology and history students as an anthropological thought-experiment, designed to explore questions surrounding humankind’s social, psychological and cultural development by positing an alternative history for the evolution of Earth’s sentient species. ‘What would the world be like,’ the experiment asked, ‘if homo sapiens weren’t the only primates to evolve into creatures capable of creating language and civilization?’
Research into human history and world cultures revealed that the question has been asked before, and the answer usually appears couched in the language and symbolism of religious myth, folklore, and urban legend. As the project evolved, the Sidhe Themselves began to take form, and little clues to what They might be like if They really existed sprung up in the products of human imagination: oral storytelling, literature, religious myth, languages and music.
The Sidhe World project is a collection of art, poetry, stories, songs and philosophical writing inspired by this anthropological research. The first experiment in ‘speculative anthropology,’ the Sidhe World project shows us our own world through the eyes of the Auld Ones.
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