Nymph art

[Hong Key]

Nymph

A nymph (Greek: νύμφη, nymphē) in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis. They are believed to dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes. Although they would never die of old age nor illness, and could give birth to fully immortal children if mated to a god, they themselves were not necessarily immortal, and could be beholden to death in various forms.

Other nymphs, always in the shape of young maidens, were part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally the huntress Artemis. Nymphs were the frequent target of satyrs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph

Because of their close connection to water, a fertilizing element, the Nymphs were worshiped as daemons of fertility and vegetation.The nymphs protected the plants and animals and were also playing the role of nurses who occasionally raised human beings. (http://www.greek-gods.info/ancient-greek-gods/nymphs/)

Relief of Nymphs - old
http://greek-go.dot5hosting.com/ancient-greek-gods/nymphs/images/large/three-nymphs-relief.jpg

William Bouguereau - Nymphs and Satyr (1873)
http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/art/d/2801-1/William+Bouguereau+-+Nymphs+and+Satyr+_1873_.jpg

John William Waterhouse - Hylas and the Nymphs (1896)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gal lery_1896.15.jpg

Victor David Brenner - A Song to Nature (1918)
http://greekgodpan.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/4051004059_e1236b0cc9_o.jpg?w=620&h=717

[Hong Key]

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[templumForasticus]

Nice northern version of a myth foreign to you.

[Hong Key]

Nice northern version of a myth foreign to you.

Enlighten us dickhead

[templumForasticus]

ok, darling

Hylas and the Nymphs, mosaic from Spain.

http://wa1.www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/v2/jpg/HIM18124.jpg

Mosaics from Syria

http://nihilnovum.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dafeapolomosaic.jpg

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9383/nppetra66091333x2000.jpg

[Hong Key]

title of thread is called Nymph Art
could you have not just posted that instead sunshine?

[Hong Key]

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[♥ Lily ♥]

Beautiful article and paintings. I think that the Ancient Greek Pagan culture was very attuned to nature.

[Hong Key]

Beautiful article and paintings. I think that the Ancient Greek Pagan culture was very attuned to nature.

You could pretty much say that about all the Ancient Europeans.

Old Norse Mythology and Legend & Viking Vengeance
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?124937-Maria-Kvilhaug-Old-Norse-Mythology-and-Legend-amp-Viking-Vengeance

[Hong Key]

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[♥ Lily ♥]

You could pretty much say that about all the Ancient Europeans.

Old Norse Mythology and Legend & Viking Vengeance
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?124937-Maria-Kvilhaug-Old-Norse-Mythology-and-Legend-amp-Viking-Vengeance
That's true, I agree 100% with that reflection. The Viking Norse Odinist culture, and also the Celts and the Etruscans too.
I see these ancient cultural and natural belief systems are being revived more since we had the European Enlightenment.

[Aurora]

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b4/a5/19/b4a519c0c71da9eafe12d837709e513b.jpg

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/14/3c/e8/143ce8bc11f1df89d24158bf89f11238.jpg

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5b/f7/44/5bf7440044ec8e689037a555578508c0.jpg

http://cdn.paleothea.com/Pictures/WaterhouseEcho.jpg

http://prints.encore-editions.com/0/500/charles-marion-russell-wood-nymph-original-size-23x16-gouache-graphite.jpg

http://www.saleoilpaintings.com/paintings-image/leon-bazile-perrault/leon-bazile-perrault-a-water-nymph-77410.jpg

http://www.artble.com/imgs/4/a/7/77082/hylas_and_the_water_nymphs.jpg

[Hong Key]

That's true, I agree 100% with that reflection. The Viking Norse Odinist culture, and also the Celts and the Etruscans too.
I see these ancient cultural and natural belief systems are being revived more since we had the European Enlightenment.

You might also like this interview.

Elizabeth Holgrave - Germanic Heathenism & Preserving European Heritage
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?128433-Germanic-Heathenism-amp-Preserving-European-Heritage-Elizabeth-Holgrave&p=2702067#post2702067

[Linet]

Your article is correct, i will only add that nymphs would devide depending on where they lived and what they protected...
There are the dryads. that lived in treeds, nayads that lived in springs, lakes and rivers and the orestyads that lived in mountains and hills...also existed many other sudcategories.

i think here i can see a dryad coming out from her tree.... :rose:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/554703_572812909419967_454168182_n.jpg

[Linet]

I love it :love0031: when they seem to come out from the places they inhabit and someone caught them on camera...:photo:

http://www.kidsgarden.gr/images/index-pics/3a.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSKPzL7R0jDZ4lSrZHFn0bp1lBpmJH1t Zr4qXW25EO9Yk3wOYi-YA

[Linet]

Apollo and nymph Daphne...
http://data6.blog.de/media/791/4232791_ce2db98206_m.jpeg

Hylas and the nymphs
http://i0.wp.com/antikleidi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tumblr_mhvhdd6mZZ1s3ik60o1_500.jpg?w=695
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dvNiOHM_6b0/USkNeGwx26I/AAAAAAAABlc/QeYP-rJDwrs/s1600/Nymphs.jpg

A Nayad watching someone sleep
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M-J6F_hZLos/USVN6JGd9NI/AAAAAAAABS8/rqCdKOfq8CM/s1600/Naiad1.jpg

Satyr and nymph
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-irp7zyV1QCw/UQBVf9XSoyI/AAAAAAAAI-M/oXOZGji-fJs/s1600/Al.+Cabanel+nymph+and+satyr.+1860+I%CE%B4%CF%89%CF %84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B7%CC%81.+jpg!.jpg

Nymph Echo and Narcysus
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nH_Nw9DBHyo/U398FwG8h_I/AAAAAAAABmo/eHsf_fs_ZCg/s1600/1-echo-and-narcissus-john-william-waterhouse.jpg

[Hong Key]

Your article is correct, i will only add that nymphs would divide depending on where they lived and what they protected...
There are the dryads. that lived in trees, nayads that lived in springs, lakes and rivers and the orestyads that lived in mountains and hills...also existed many other subcategories.


Doing my 2 1/2 seconds of researched it does not appear Nymphs are of Indo-European :odinsleipnir2: origin. Perhaps they are Original-European? :valknut or? Do you have an opinion/insight?

[Linet]

Doing my 2 1/2 seconds of researched it does not appear Nymphs are of Indo-European :odinsleipnir2:origin. Perhaps they are Original-European? or? Do you have an opinion/insight?


I think that people are also affected by their enviroment http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/gts2-smiley.gif?1292867611...that was especially true at the old times :old ....Greece is too bright as a place http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/rainbow/t115005.gif, our forests smell like aromatic herbs :rose: ....it invites you to imagine Nymphs and beautifull creatures live in it http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/hippie1-smiley.gif?1292867617.... The times i have gone to walk in a forest, i also feel the urge to imagine happy creatures spying on me while hiding....:frog:...when i very well know its not possible :pout:
Sometimes the explanation is just simple....


Who knows...maybe a nymph really lives there...and she laughs with our incapability to see her....http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/dance-hula-smiley.gif?1292867579

http://www.kavosbay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Kavos-Bay-Cove.jpg