i love the pic and your new "avi" !
i also love that she is a "girl" !
all of the earth mother/goddess stories and
belifes of ancient times are still with us
today. i am glad , girls rule !!!

To be honest, I'm not really into the goddess thing, I think the Guidling Hand more like angels, for they are limited as well. How many times have times happen in the game we can't stop? I think of Arthur as Creator (and no Arthur, while I love you, I will not bow down in wroship )and we the "watchers" (another name for the angels. In fact, acoording to many sources site the "fallen angels" of the Torah as the model of the greek gods and goddesses. But I do love the Greek Myths and decided since this is friction, I would have a little fun. Until I find something that is closer to my personality. But Ilanna is cute Now if I find a Arabian beauty with a Arabian Nights theme...

GIRLS RULE!!! i second that! Wait...the Lost City? You mean Secret City? i can't wait for that either. I love your new aavi too, MochaJew!

I like your avi, she's very pretty

yea. just like MochaJew.

LOL

i meant your aavi.


Just kidding! i haven't really seen you in real life, but i bet you're really pretty...unlike me.

I Noticed That You Made On TheDollPalace.

Very Pretty

Ianna is a beauty MJ I will imagine myself as she looks while I am guiding the Guiding Hand - it will boost my ego

Seriously, I love your new avi and was pleased to meet Ianna!!

i imagined it as some sort of light or mothering figure. im so excited for the secret city, the suspense is killing me. although i don't get the whole secret city thing.

Your picture is really good!! also I like your name

Oh, your new Avi is gorgeous! I have yet to dream one up as my own. I do have several ideas "cooking"...Is Ianna holding a spindle or distaff in her hand? I seem to recall reading somewhere that someones' hobby is weaving?

As we come closer to the time when Virtual Villiage, the Secret City will be released, I am getting ready.
I often wonder to whom does the Guiding Hand belongs to. So, drawing on Greek Myth, I came up with an idea. So meet the One who watches over the souls of Isloa....Ianna (I couldn't get her any darker...)

Actually, it was the pictures of the boat screen that first gave me the idea for Ianna. In old paintings you'll often see the winds personified as faces in the clouds blowing ships along. They often appear like that as decorations on old maps as well. I also use them in my NeedleWork. It was Arnie's post gave me my final inspiration...
"Not so much Poseidon/Neptune as the gods of the winds, in Greek, the Anemoi. The main ones were Boreas (North Wind), Notus (South), Eurus (East) and Zephyrus (West). The Roman gods had different names but were similar. See Wikipedia if you are interested." Arnie
Thanks Arnie

It has been called by both names. It is used to measure one's 'life' and once measured out, cut off. I don't remember if I listed weaving as one of my hobbies, but I do love to weave. Though right now, I don't have the space.

And another connection with the Greek legends! The three Fates, or Moirae, were the personifications of destiny. They wore white robes, and their names were Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Clotho (literally "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Lachesis would measure the thread of life, and Atropos would cut it off (decide when it was time for someone to die).

Apart from the fact that the Greeks usually depicted her as an old hag, Ianna looks very much like Clotho.

The Romans and the Norse peoples also had sets of three very similar goddesses, the Fata and the Norns.

Piers Anthony used The three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in his book With a Tangled Skein. As a weaver and tapesty maker, it was my favorite book in the series. And since I am the Watch of my village it seem fitting. Plus, it doesn't hurt that my Hebrew name is Ianna

I remember reading that book many years ago. Alas, I can't remember anything about it now, other than it was part of the Incarnations of Immortality series.

They have special meaning to me since Keith Emerson, keyboards player in my favourite 1970s rock band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, wrote a piece in three parts called The Three Fates - the parts being called, of course, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. It appeared on their first album.

I like the avi, I like reading the posts (the gamers) of LDW's put up, but for some reason, your post caught my eye.... I love it.Keep up doing what your doing. You rock. You also made me laugh, when you said, "not bowing down". You are a mess, so keep me coming back......p.s. Author is a sweetie!

really? May? exciting. so soon!

Aw... ...

HI