A Christmas Story-Coloring of Mythological Creatures

Being a grown up doesn't make me less eager for listening or reading a beautiful Christmas Story.As soon as Christmas comes closer i think about a story of mine...
perhaps just a remnant of my childish days to make me feel a bit lost and strange in my real age....

I asked my Wizard for help

By holding my hands,he took me to the edge of an abyss.It was a misty Morning when birds send their whispers to senseless souls..

Take a look down-he said,but be prepared for astonishing world
No need to say how curious i was...i gathered my breath and stuck out my head to have a glimpse of mystic hole...

Don't be afraid ...!-dreams come true while flying into unknown...,just step into emptiness..

Pegasus

Laying on the bottom or crawling around each other ,there were endless ridiculous creatures...what other name
to picture such unseen and weird animals?
I know you wonder how i could see good from such a great distance...well,it is unnatural world which sucks your senses by polluted air....a zone of dead souls...

There was a creature with the body of a lion and wings of an eagle,supposed it was a Griffin,and a Balaur -like creature with multi heads;i noticed a tiny bird with soft eyes that i learned to be a primary appearance of Bunny-bird,the soul of the Sun God-Amon Ra; there was an appealing creature with one horn,and Wizard,who knew more than real world,named it Karkadann ;then i saw an early mix of animal and human with the tail of a scorpion,which my companion called Manticore.Three head dogs and horses with wings,great lizard and dinosaur like creatures..snakes with wings,cats covered with spines,were just some of miracles i saw,and many of them were depicted and recognized in our existence.Since it was the very beginning of Creation,not each of them was colored.

By looking at such a creation,God wished one day to change the view and asked for help to make a new dweller...
-How?Wasn't it that God himself created a man..-i knew in advance who my wizard thought about

-It is one of greatest delusion ever..God is great but not everything is in his power....-he answered and my sight into ancient world continued to grow by each word he told me

Oh,it becomes more exciting,i love when old taboos get broken...-i felt a thrilling in my voice and clapped my hands.
-But it put you in a new position next to God who is Almighty...

-Don't make confusion or give undeserved attributes to me..God is a catholic eye,he is LIGHT and WISDOM..
we come after him with our little wonders to light up some missing lines..

I hardly stayed peaceful,burning from impatience to remind him of evil to be present among us.So You say light and wisdom,but what about evil ?There must be another side of reality..

-There have gone many a year since first creatures came into the world as we know it now...and there is another world which we still regard unreal,but it exists as well..  they are unsatisfied,greedy to get a shape which is lost for them ..they crave for some missing beauty,everyone loves to be beautiful,have a nice hair and eyes...

-Oh,i never thought about them in that way!Now i feel sorry for all of them...

-So envy is not so mystical as it seems..Would you like to have an enchanting dog or cat?With green or  caramel eyes...i can make such a little wonder..just look at..

It lasted just a blink of eye,while he rushed out,seized a hideous dog and brought to me...
-See,it is unsightly,has pale eyes,and is without hair...and a long tiny neck...wait for a moment-

It took not more than few seconds for magic he performed...he made it into a beautiful dog,with sweet caramel eyes and gold fur...
again i clapped my hands and jumped ..-It is wonderful you did!Thank you so much!

Now i hope you see things better,and understand such a 'poor' and neglected world more than earlier..if you knew anything at all....more for himself,he whispered.

I pursued with my curiosity...-What happened with the sky and rivers,all the nature around we enjoy ?

Great accomplishments are in God's hands...He gave colors to the sky...By watching these miserable creatures
to yearn for a bit of lightness,his eye was tearing and a teardrop fell down...from that, a RIVER was born..

How wonderful !I was delighted...it makes me get a feel for river to be sensitive,a new way of looking at things and thinking....amazing!

And God's eyes are blue,that is why river became blue....

But my passion to know more didn't stop....Is it the same story with the sky?

You are very clever and intuitive.....such attributes lead you toward the greatest achievements....he smiled,and continued-There was an account of sorrow about gray expanse spreading before his eyes and wished to paint it,..blue seemed like a matching hue for such a transparent space......
but i know that blue is symbol of WISDOM....and there was one to suggest it to him..
Of course,not everything got colors by his WILL...there were always little plays around to satisfied one's thirst for making wonders...

I opened my eyes as wide as i could,full of happiness and delight...-what spectacular choice for me to make..!
Please, let me color one of them....
-I told you never to beg for anything...You are so serene,for you are given more than many have in earthly life...
For a moment our main point of conversation and my desire were interrupted,while i asked
-What is it about me to be so special?Although in myself i hold a secret already..but as every naughty girl,i pretended i didn't know what he was thinking about..

-You know very well little foxy girl,that you have a sparkling body,it is velvety particles inside of you to give you a strange and unique look..
that is truth..i knew...the only i didn't know was ..why ?

Which creature do you want?
-I want to make one of them be GOOD!Since i love dragons and there are many talks of them being evil,i wished to change their beliefs.....
-Dragons are not evil... .and only what you can do is to beautify them..choose one of them..

-By holding my breath,i reached my hands around his shoulders and we flew.....

A dragon caught my eye by standing all alone in the obscurity ...i felt it longed for something different ..i simply knew..i wished for him be colored in antique red with green eyes and gold flame to go out of his mouth...of course red is color of fire,but i imagined something more...
Still there are many to doubt in his existence,and i needed to make him glowing in red to be so impressive ..as being inside already!

And i made more miracles...i colored a few birds,and learned them to speak..i found a dove like creature to be wild,and keeping in my memory one to have recently landed on my terrace and go into my room,i wanted to make him tame..and painted him in noble purple being deserved by his friendly and close relation with a man.Dove communicates with underground world and is a messenger between dead and live worlds..

An imposing cat seemed perfect to make her into amethyst with dreamy bluish eyes..i didn't like her big ears and made them small...anyway,a cat more feel than see and understand..she is intuitive and very resistant to earthly strokes,she can survive and renew own life many times..

Most i could do for a snake was to free her of a shell,so that she can creep now....and being warned from my wizard to not look into her eyes,i left out coloring them....nobody looks a snake into eyes!

Unfortunately,a dreamy ball resembling our Sun to sneak up from the east,forced us to come back,by leaving this antediluvian world,while i was thinking about whether it really vanished or exists parallel with us.I didn't ask my wizard anything more,as i kept some questions and surprises for the next time we go to new journey.It is the answer on your dilemma:i shall continue my story....



A Little Notice
Just to let everyone know who is in dilemma about the way i colored a few of creatures,i didn't do that with classic paints,it was MAGIC...
And a short request:
If some of you might suggest me names for my mystical creatures,for as you noticed,not the all of them are known at present./you can ask children for help/
Thank you so much!


Painting
Pegasus
by Ian Hornak 1991
The National Hellenic Museum
Chicago
National Hellenic Museum


Mythology

  

Love has come down from Heaven

"In a ghostly hour i lost my love'
O, sweet illusion,bring me another one,
The price is small for a bit of my happiness;
I won't steal or lend,
You have my permission to make a cheat on me,
For i am but a lonely servant of yours,
Be you from heaven or the hell
In a ghostly hour i lost my love.
It doesn't matter any more to me,
As i sold my soul once ago;
And the only hope i have now,
Is that glowing span
While being in the full sense of myself,
Agreed to have a crumb of your glorious mercy!

                                                                                                    

Since my birth,love has been an inevitable companion of my every day's life while i never assented to any ordinary consumption of her.Love is too powerful and magical to be just an usual visitor of many to travel across all planetary and starring worlds out there.From the very beginning,whether there was a fireball explosion,filled by pure particles of energy,carried here and there on the pallets of the sky,by making a whirl around planetary heads and spreading their hands eagerly into space,or taking a religious approach and thinking of God's will and power to make all things happen,i strong believe in the existence of catholic love to incorporate and unite all of us and everything together.
First thought was about Love,as soon as God wished for bringing into life a picture of man and woman to live together.In addition to God's command,there is a natural aspect of human need to love and be loved;it is perpetual aspiration to make every day a holiday.Being caught in mind hemisphere,love paves its path for beauty as another aspect of magical travelers.

The Stolen Kiss

First and main recognition of love is within ourselves
I love myself
I respect myself
I know myself
Primal presumption to live a healthy life is being in love with yourself.
There might be hours to torture ourselves with hate and looking for where its source comes from;some hints of possible scenario going back to an idea of rivalry to have conceived envy and hate.If we were to follow our thoughts,sometimes spiced with jealousy and odium,it would become clear that the hell's cradle rests in our minds.There is nothing to come out of us,which has not made its way through the splice of our thoughts.
The most famous sprout coming from the darkness,is Satan.I don't know if you ever felt his presence and what your impressions would look like,but i believe,my own encounter might be a good illustration.Being obsessed,appears to be an exceptional experience,from a point of view;from the other one,it is really the "Hell".He doesn't allow to live in love,and being a great opponent of your happiness,his desire is you never meet and reunite with your lover.Once deprived of love,with mangled feelings and without home,Satan was condemned to live as vagabond for all the times.
Thereby if you are alone and no one holds your hand,,think of the past when someone earned this fatal destiny for you.As i rout over my past lives while pulling drapery to the left and right of my view,i can see,for a moment,the face of my previous life and colors to paint my being.It is black and white like dress of a sinful nun who never paid ransom for her sins.For what one could think different about something to constantly escape from their possession,unless there was a great sin to seal their fate.

Soon as self-willed Eva,made her own way in picking an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil,by leaving Adam in ignorance,and making an act of cheating,LOVE became an ILLUSION for ever.....only true Love survives in heaven's cradle...
True lovers are damned to long for each other forever and stand their passion drifts through endless cosmic expanse;fortunately enough,some of them might win just one day of real earthly love..and they should consider themselves happy for such a mercy...
And i know,i already lived through my blessed moment in life,had a glimpse of happiness by knowing great love...now i can only watch its petals scattered high in the air,like a seducing and beautiful flower being deprived by cruelty of a storm of its bloom,and condemned to grieve for its beauty forever..
You can have only one GREAT LOVE in life..all the rest are illusions..more or less...
By keeping that in your mind,you agree to a handful of little lies around your love;don't ask more than it is possible and don't undervalue what is sent to you..take it like a packet,wrapped with ribbons in colors that you don't like,and imagine how yellow one shines red or purple...change the colors in your mind and take them for the truth..how many times in life we come down to such sweet illusions?-almost every day as we breathe.

                                            In a ghostly hour i lost my love'
                                        O, sweet illusion,bring me another one,
                                      The price is small for a bit of my happiness;
                                                I won't steal or lend,
                                        You have my permission to make a cheat on me,
                                          For i am but a lonely servant of yours,
                                             Be you from heaven or the hell;
                                                In a ghostly hour i lost my love.
                                            It doesn't matter any more for me,
                                                 As i sold my soul once ago;
                                                And the only hope i have now,
                                                   Is that glowing span
                                        While being in the full sense of myself,
                                     Agreed to have a crumb of your glorious mercy!  


This little verse comes not from a dreamy mind to hold his pen in a rushed time but as lone echo of past lovers,whose souls travel through the time to find a glimpse of happiness when the renewed lovers in some another age meet each other,while pieces of their love warm lost souls once again...
I am not the lonely prisoner of his will.Many a lover found themselves in a character who rests in gold pages of a book.I myself recognize beautiful Margarita and her unrestrained youth,to be my reciprocal image coming right from the famous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Margarita is the minion of both God and Devil,a noble privilege,and as such not available to everyone.Only a chosen few is allowed to meet astonishing creatures from the light and darkness and meet an exceptional destiny.Sometimes it is permission to break the limits to separate reality from magic,and like a wizard to join all mystical beings in holding of SECRETS ..sometimes,they are given too much and the same taken just in a wink,for the glory has its own price..
Margarita conquers both realms-light and darkness,by her love of Master and unusual young look she kept in her older years.
Where Devil draws his breaths,there must be something "marvelous" in air .......
I listen to him as whispers...i am deprived of Love,but have power to make your dreams come true..and being without feelings my reward will be your punishment alike!


 My dear demon,i know you,i received and embraced your award,and your "revenge".

 LOVE must be fed

Love revives its strength in your inspiration.Be focused on your hobby;your love of the nature gets its satisfaction in long walks along the forests' paths..go out and find solace with the birds in flight;having a nice garden is perfect rest to cherish beautiful flowers and make short breaks in meditation;love of books is my favorite,there is no greater enjoyment but holding some yellow pages to meet my curiosity and satisfy exploring spirit;put some of your thoughts on paper or transmit it to the screen.Love your work whatever to be,and wherever you are,and in the lack of passion,get it compensated by own talent to find some little pleasures around it,employ your imagination .....

There are many patterns of loves..wrap them with the ribbon in a matching color...
sometimes you give your love away with no strong pretension .....just an easy sympathy and affection
sometimes you love another being as close soul to answer your aspirations and inner beauty
sometimes it is only a hint of possible love..
sometimes it is destiny to take you to the other side of the world and prevent from meeting your love again..
sometimes it is great LOVE to be swallowed and prevented from realization by demon's power....


My LOVE is not being from this world,it aspires for and wanders among the souls fell from the height and doomed to suffer;my love will never reach its destination where faithful hearts meet each other again;my love is an unfinished story;she is not under God's grace;my love suffers some past sins and takes many centuries to fulfill itself;my love brought in a verdict of guilty on me and damned to enchant everyone but never to belong anyone.......




Painting
"The Stolen Kiss"
by Jean-Honore Fragonard

The Mystery of God

One of the most glorious moment ever in the entire Universe,was the birth of an especial creature on Earth to open the door into cognizable worlds and trace the path back to the very source of their origin.By the will of his Majesty, a magnificent moment greeted the dawn of Humanity.
Born in loneliness,while the Lord looked upon own creation,and wished to accompany him with Cherubim,Dominions,Archangels,Angels,and the rest of angelic beings,the man became genuine and loyal follower of the creation and its most beautiful sibling-Nature.

Appolo and Aurora

A man has risen from most beautiful nature's decor:flowers,rivers,mountains,landscapes,heaven,clouds,Sun's rays.....everything gave their primary and most beautiful features in endeavor to overcome his loneliness,and make all the ambient around vivid and in favor of a man.That way,Beauty was inevitably embedded in like one of the most impressive characteristics we share with nature.All the colors mixed their most seducing hues and kept hold of the secret formula, allowing to the viewer nothing but enjoyment and pleasure of being part of dancing beauty.
White,black,red,green,blue..purple..all is on your disposal to lend their robes and shroud yourself for a magnificent appearance.
The most mysterious secret in the focus of human interest,and most wanted to be solved,has always been their origin.And science stayed in silence until these days about solving that mystery.In my mind,as i trying to reach that moment of conceiving the birth of my first ancestor,i transfer my thoughts back into the past.Suddenly,the path becomes a pure reflection of one remote and crystal glowing destination,exposed somewhere in the future and beyond reasonable cognition... some farthest place in Universe..a star,planet.......hidden resort to be unknown till now?
It is like traveling back in time to meet own future in one point,somewhere in infinity of space and time!An astonishing idea and vision,perceptible and alluring,the way to meet your double and first blood cousins.There might be a sparkling particle fell from the space to cross distances and reach Earth.
If we were to go along that imagined line,we could join past and future and get us united in one single point.....without past and future..just one single MOMENT!
Imagine Yourself in such a magnificent glimpse of time,and you could feel all the mystery of existence!All the distinction between now and forever,what was and will be,birth and death,....everything happens to vanish by moving themselves aside and giving a pass to a wonderful feeling of flying into the longest place you could ever reach in imagination.


Such a FREEDOM solves man's most attractive desire ...eternal life and Youth.
We can feel the importance of being NOW and breathing in this moment,without loading ourselves with the burden of unnecessary thoughts.The all which matters and makes life,has been merged in just one snatch!

I think about it like my new birth and the moment i am renewed;I shall think of myself like the revelation of a new star,or powerful might floating the space to give a birth to everything.

I shall think of myself like being a particle of Almighty's gorgeous embodiment.The very source of my birth is the place where my ending hours on earth would have rested...birth and death,there is no difference ...It is continual chain of all the cycles in Universe,and i know that the strength of my being and all the energy floating my body will prolong their lasting into the future.It is pure magic captured in the obscurity of my awareness and nakedness of my organism.And it is only on You to recognize them and reign all the possibilities lying before you.Learn to use gifts of Nature and pulsing cosmos,to revive yourself,and make your organism radiate,feed itself and give own energy back to outer surrounding,to mix consciousness contracted in mind with Universe's unique and transparent nature.

And the all becomes miracle...i shall give my face the shape i wish
It will glow the color i hold in my vision
My look becomes embodiment of my desire'
My own Beauty is manifest CREATION..i make BEAUTY in a way i wish and love it!
LOVE your BEAUTY !
Your unique beauty will get the meaning and radiate the way you show yourself to the outer world!The strength of your mind and thoughts modeled by its will,make your look be seen like most alluring ; you only allow beauty to be fed properly.In essence it is ENERGY with all the characteristics and vibrations spring from your being.You hold and master them on your own..

Having said Beauty,i assume it is all about your YOUNG look alike...BEAUTY is foreseen to carry all the purity of your skin,without any line to rough surface in its reflection.

Active role of the brain is driving force,and every imagined projection you make,sources in the brain;there is a passage to find and allow the flow of all energy.I myself name the mind being holy grail of eternal youth.
Once you mastered the craft of letting stream of particles travel from mind throughout the rest of organism,is a way recognized for ever.The energy pulses,similar to strokes of a clock,it pumps vivid impulses and absorbs new incentives in every glimpse of time.
What streams through your body has fueled with WILL...it is pad from which your desire begins its journey from your brain,gives a command,and being received,becomes jointed with the strength of mind's waves to bring all them back to the body.It is continual circle of feeding your mind to transit projected images into pores of your body;an exercise to practice in every bit of your lifetime.It is the heart of keeping your YOUNG look alive!

The heart never stops pumping blood to keep you alive.Mind's activity is additional source for feeding every ingredient of your being,and its main function is ability to command the cells of your organism;It takes only your will to send orders which will lead you to the keeping Young look in every time of your life.

OPEN The WINDOW

To get out of the close and recognizable circle of happenings,we shall open the window into magnificent and splendid Nature to coat ourselves with all the brightness coming from heaven's blueness,cloud's artworks brushed on the sky,sparkles of dancing air,greenish glow of drizzled grass,mottle of seducing landscapes,sparkling bats of mountain's waterfalls,foamy purity of air in the stunning hills.....we shall clear blurred scenery around,and let them become part of our sensing and absorbing reality.
We shall let the beauty of some remote times reach us in all abundance,and find us never lost in oblivion of one moment which decided our destiny would stay merged with the beautiful framed picture posted by an inscrutable might.The mystery is lasting ingredient of eternal beauty and youth.

Our CREATOR left us with a living memory of his heritage and the key to decipher its mystery leading to eternal Youth.



Painting
Appolo and Aurora
Gerard de Lairesse
1671
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Apollo



FROM THE ARCHIVE

Beauty of God's Word
by Gerard Hallock


I have found this book,under the title"Beauty of God's Word" as the result of my searching for old ones since it is my passion;i am really lucky with books,think of running across most beautiful,and believe it is because of my love of reading.She is special for me even more,for it is associated with my writing on staying young /beautiful/The author found his inspiration in God's words,referring to love and devotion ,as well as all the rest of divine characteristics ,to be main source of being beautiful.They come from inside of our beings and make us so lovely.I have not opened the Bible in order to express my thoughts, but what i wrote came right from my mind and heart and completely corresponds the holy book.Through my stories you will feel the same strength and source to come from my inner being, fed by nature's beauty,and to be the essence of staying young and beautiful.Take from nature and God's creation abundance and "grow lovely" as it says Gerard Hallock.
p.s. i never look for them before i have finished my writing,to avoid any influence,and so i am very nice surprised every time i find similarities in the way i and 'unknown' author think and build our stories.

Becoming Beautiful

"But we all,with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,are changed into the same image from glory in glory even as by the spirit of the Lord"

"A Christian is sure to grow lovely by just loving,-by just going on in love for Christ.It has been fabled from old times that the graceful swan was changed from a most ugly bird into its present beauty,merely because of its constancy to its mate"

"The soul grows wondrously lovely just by loving,by pouring out its faithful affection"