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Sunday, 1 June 2014

The Legend of Shambhala -Shangri La - (Continued)

Hi my dear friends I hope you can take a couple of minutes and read this interesting article, a follow up from my last posting about Shambala and have a wonderful Sunday. 
With love, The Fairy Lady. 
The Legend of Shambhala -Shangri La -
(Continued)



Shangri-La. This lost Tibetan paradise is a valley cut off from the world. The wisdom of the human race is being conserved there against the threat of imminent catastrophe. Hilton's novel was turned into a hit Hollywood movie and the name Shangri-La came to mean a lost paradise.

When the Tibetan monks first saw sailors from the west , they asked why they did not come from the inner Earth like the others of their kind, the western sailors were confused by this statement.

The reason why it's never been found is because people are looking in the wrong place...

As above, as is below, in the realm of Agartha.

"Behind snowy peaks, somewhere to the North , lies a Mystical Kingdom, where a line of Enlightened Kings is guarding the innermost teachings of Buddhism for a time when all truth in the outside world is lost in war and greed . Then, the King of Shambhala will emerge with a great army to destroy the forces of evil and bring in a new Golden Age."

Rumors and reports have been in existence , for millennia now, that somewhere near or beyond Tibet , among icy peaks and in some of the secluded valleys of Eurasia, lies a "paradise ", inaccessible to us. It is a place of enlightenment ,wisdom and peace , called Shambhala , known by several other names such as "Shangri-La " and "Agharta ."

Shambhala is a Sanskrit word , which means "place of peace ." It has often been thought of as a cluster of minds , of perfect and semi-perfect beings , who are guiding the evolution of humanity . It is also considered to be the source and safeguard of Kalachakra (The Wheel of Time ), one of the highest branches of Tibetan mysticism and Buddhism's teachings.

According to the legends, The King of Shambhala (Shambhala's existence predates Buddhism ) travelled to India to meet Buddha and learn the Kalachakra teachings. He then took those teachings back to the Kingdom, where the teachings have been preserved. It is said that only a person with a pure heart can live in Shambhala . There, they shall enjoy ease and perfect happiness and will not know suffering , desire or age. Love and wisdom reign. Injustice and vices are unknown. The inhabitants are long-lived, wear beautiful and perfect bodies and possess supernatural powers ; their spiritual knowledge is deep, their technological level highly advanced, their laws mild and their study of the arts and sciences covers the full spectrum of cultural achievement , but on a far higher level than anything the outside world has attained. 


By definition Shambhala is hidden. Of the numerous explorers and seekers of spiritual wisdom who attempt to locate Shambhala , none can pinpoint its physical location on a map, although all say it exists in the mountainous regions ofEurasia. Many have also returned believing that Shambhala lies on the very edge of physical reality , as a bridge connecting this world to one beyond it.

Tibetan lamas spend a great deal of their lives in spiritual development before attempting the journey to Shambhala . Perhaps deliberately, the guidebooks to Shambhala describe the route in terms so vague that only those already initiated into the teachings of the Kalachakra can understand them.


According to some lamas , "As the traveller draws near the kingdom, their directions become increasingly mystical and difficult to correlate with the physical world . At least one lama has written that the vagueness of these books is deliberate and intended to keep Shambhala concealed from the barbarians who will take over the world ." This line being referred to is from the Prophecy of Shambhala .

The Prophecy of Shambhala :

The prophecy of Shambhala states that each of its kings will rule for 100 years. There will be 32 in all, and as their reigns pass, conditions in the outside world will deteriorate. Men will become more warlike and pursue power for its own sake, and an ideology of materialism will spread over the earth . There will then be a gradual deterioration of mankind as the ideology of materialism spreads over the earth . When the “barbarians” who follow this ideology are united under an evil king and think there is nothing left to conquer, the mists will lift to reveal the snowy mountains of Shambhala . The barbarians will attack Shambhala with a huge army equipped with terrible weapons . Then the 32nd king of Shambhala , Rudra Cakrin , will lead a mighty host against the invaders. In a last great battle, the evil king and his followers will be destroyed.


Some put the year of the prophecy as 2029, although most predictions put it at 2424, when a Great War will begin in India.Early European travellers to Tibet consistently told the same tale of a hidden spiritual center of power. The only difference, that these spoke of Shambhala being a hidden world underneath the surface of the planet. It was sometimes spelt Agharti , Asgartha or Agarttha), although it is now commonly known as Shambhala and often confused travellers. I use the word "Agharta " here to identify the subterranean version of Shambhala .

Taking the legend in its most basic form , Agharta is said to be a mysterious underground kingdom situated somewhere beneath Asia and linked to the other continents of the world by a gigantic network of tunnels. These passageways, partly natural formations and partly the handiwork of the race which created the subterranean nation, provide a means of communication between all points, and have done so since time immemorial. According to the legend, vast lengths of the tunnels still exist today; the rest have been destroyed by cataclysms. The exact location of these passages, and the means of entry, are said to be known only to certain high initiates, and the details are most carefully guarded because the kingdom itself is a vast storehouse of secret knowledge . Some claim that the stored knowledge is derived from the lost Atlantean civilisation and of even earlier people who were the first intelligent beings to inhabit the earth .

It has been told that Agharta is a hidden land somewhere in the East , below the surface of the earth , where a population of millions is ruled by a “Sovereign Pontiff”, who is assisted by two colleagues, the “Mahatma ” and the “Mahanga”. His realm was transferred underground and concealed from the surface-dwellers at the start of the Kali Yuga , which he dates around 3200 BCE. According to Saint-Yves, the “mages of Agarttha” had to descend into the infernal regions below them in order to work at bringing the earth’s chaos and negative energy to an end. “Each of these sages accomplishes his work in solitude , far from any light , under the cities, under deserts, under plains or under mountains.” Now and then Agharta sends emissaries to the upper world , of which it has perfect knowledge .

Agharta also enjoys the benefits of a technology advanced far beyond our own. Not only the latest discoveries of modern man, but the whole wisdom of the ages is enshrined in its libraries. Among its many secrets are those of the relationship of soul to body , and of the means to keep departed souls in communication with incarnate ones.

To Saint-Yves, these superior beings were the true authors of Synarchy, and for thousands of years Agharta had “radiated” Synarchy to the rest of the world , which in modern times has chosen foolishly to ignore it. When the world adopts Synarchical government the time will be ripe for Agharta to reveal itself.

Until the start of the twentieth century, the legend of Agharta remained very much... a legend. Stories of Agharta had widely spread in Europe but evidence to support the claims remained as elusive as ever. Indeed, it might well have been expected that in the rational and materialistic new century, such stories would finally be confined to the realms of fantasy: a colourful tradition to be ranked alongside other ancient mysteries such as the lost continents of Atlantis and Mu.


But such a supposition did not allow for the remarkable discoveries of two intrepid explorers who in the 1920s went into the vastness of Asia and there unearthed evidence about Agharta which far exceeded that of any previous reports. Their accounts, indeed, became the cornerstone of our present knowledge of the secret kingdom. One made his discoveries about Agharta while fleeing for his life from the Bolsheviks in Russia; the other came shortly after from self-imposed exile in America, seeking to penetrate the mysteries of Tibet . Their names were Ferdinand Ossendowski and Nicholas Roerich .

The King of the World - Ossendowski's Story:

Russian traveller Ferdinand Ossendowski said he noticed there were times in his Mongolian travels when men and beasts paused, silent and immobile, as though listening. The herds of horses , the sheep and cattle, stood fixed toattention or crouched close to the ground. The birds did not fly, and marmots did not run and the dogs did not bark. “Earth and sky ceased breathing . The wind did not blow and the sun did not move…. All living beings in fear were involuntarily thrown into prayer and waiting for their fate .”

“Thus it has always been,” explained an old Mongol shepherd and hunter, “whenever the King of the World in his subterranean palace prays and searches out the destiny of all peoples on the earth .” For in Agharta , he said, “live thein visible rulers of all pious people , the King of the World or Brahatma, who can speak with God as I speak with you, and his two assistants: Mahatma , knowing the purposes of future events, and Mahinga, ruling the causes of those events. He knows all the forces of the world and reads all the souls of mankind and the great book of their destiny .”


As he fled through “Mysterious Mongolia ... the Land of Demons,” he paused frequently to speak with Buddhist monks and lamas about the traditions associated with lakes, caves and monasteries . There was one story he said he encountered everywhere in Eurasia: he called it the “Kingdom of Agharti ”, regarding it as nothing less than “the mystery of mysteries.”

He was also told of the miraculous powers of the Tibetan monks , and the Dalai Lama in particular – powers that foreigners could scarcely begin to appreciate. “But there also exists a still more powerful and more holy man… The King of the World in Agharti .”


Interestingly, Ossendowski reports that the enormous powers the people of Agharta were believed to control could be used to destroy whole areas of the planet, but equally could be harnessed as the means of propulsion of the most amazing vehicles of transport. It has been suggested that this could be a prediction of nuclear energy and flying saucers!

The Sign of Shambhala - Roerich's Story:

Roerich too, maintained a diary of thoughts , from which we find the following: In August the shrine was consecrated in a solemn ceremony by a number of notable lamas invited to the site for the purpose, and after the event, writesRoerich , the Buriat guides forecast something auspicious impending. A day or two later, a large black bird was observed flying over the party. Beyond it, moving high in the cloudless sky, a huge, golden, spheroid body , whirling and shining brilliantly in the sun, was suddenly espied. Through three pairs of binoculars the travellers saw it fly rapidly from the north , from the direction of Altai, then veer sharply and vanish towards the southwest , behind the Humboldt mountains.

One of the lamas told Roerich that what he had seen was “the sign of Shambhala ,” signifying that his mission had been blessed by the Great Ones of Altai, the lords of Shambhala . They had also been witness to a classic UFO, twenty years before the “official” beginning of the phenomenon with Kenneth Arnold’s sighting in 1947.


Roerich’s account of such a sighting aroused great interest in Europe and brought to the West the first concrete evidence that there might be something present in Eurasia that defied understanding . Victoria LePage describes its significance as such:

In its vivid colour and factuality, its bizarre but unarguable reference to an unknown golden aircraft that behaved as no ordinary airplane could, the Roerich story could rightly be called the first reliable intimation that the kingdom of Chang Shambhala was perhaps knowable as more than an intellectual curiosity, a popular Asian fable… and from about 1927 onward the world centre in the northern mountains exerted on Western occult circles the fascination of an idea whose time has come.

Which brings us to the very nature of reality . Paranormal experiences , including UFO sightings, are always indicative of an altered state of consciousness that allows the witness to see other realities . Often the experience is similar to alucid dream, where ordinary space-time physics no longer applies.

For an idea as to what the Shambhala Kingdom looks like, we must delve slightly into Tibettan Buddhist mythology . Mount Meru is a place which simultaneously represents the center of the universe and the single-pointedness of mind sought by adepts. Thousands of miles in height, Meru is located somewhere beyond the physical plane of reality , in a realm of perfection and transcendence. Symbolic representations of Mount Meru are commonly found in Tibetan mandalas , contemplative diagrams designed to aid meditators in focusing.

It is said that Meru has its roots in hell , and its summit in heaven . Meru is surrounded by seven rings of golden mountains, each separated from the other by one of seven circular oceans. It is crowned by a golden palace wherein Indra ,king of Hindu gods , resides. This entire superstructure rises from an outer ocean, and is flanked by four main continents, each with two subcontinents.


The southern continent, Jambudvipa , corresponds to the physical earth . Each of the other continents represents a nearby planet upon which transmigrating souls following the yellow light-path may be reborn . However, it is said that all of these worlds are undesirable, for they are non-human worlds inhabited by sheep, cattle, or horses . The teachings of Buddhism clearly state that existence as a human being is the only way to achieve Buddhahood , so rebirth in any otherform (including that of a deva or demigod ) is a distraction from the path to enlightenment .

According to legend, somewhere in the northwest region of Jambudvipa lies a land called Shambhala . This is a magical land which is shaped like an eight-petalled lotus flower . It has been ruled by priest-kings for many thousands of years; in fact, the legend of Shambhala predates the introduction of Buddhism into Tibet . In the aboriginal Bon religion , Shambhala is known as Olmolungrung, and is based on the square instead of the circle.

Shambhala forms a gateway between the physical and spiritual realms . It is endowed with riches, and is ideally suited for the habitat of enlightened souls . They are not attached to the fruits of karma , and are but one step fromBuddhahood . This is the realm to be sought for rebirth if one desires the swiftest path to nirvana .

Finding Shambhala :


Many western explorers, hearing tales of a "golden city" of Shambhala , sought to find it in the frozen wastes of northern Tibet . This resulted in the present-day term "Shangri-la ," which, like El Dorado, signifies an unattainable goal. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding, for ultimately Shambhala is a place accessible to anyone, if only one can be free of karmic attachments .

While people (especially Tibetan lamas ) have been searching for Shambhala for centuries, those who seek the kingdom often never return, either because they have found the hidden country and have remained there or because they have been destroyed in the attempt. Tibetan texts containing what appear to be historical facts about Shambhala , such as the names and dates of its kings and records of corresponding events occurring in the outside world , give Tibetans additional reason for believing that the kingdom exists . Recent events that seem to correspond to the predictions of the mythic kingdom add strength to their belief . The disintegration of Buddhism in Tibet and the growth of materialism throughout the world , coupled with the wars and turmoil of the 20th century, all fit in with the prophecy of Shambhala .

The Nazi Connection:


Even Hitler was intrigued with the idea of Shambhala . Hitler was quite mystic-minded. In his youth, he studied the occult and yoga in Vienna, and received initiation into the American Indian peyote cult. Later he turned to Theosophy . He was invited to join an occult group in Germany, called Ultima Thule, which planned to take over Germany. This later became the Nazi Party.

Once Hitler assumed power, one of his ministries was that of Ancestral Memories, headed by the Chairman of the Sanskrit Department at Munich University. It controlled the concentration camps. Through this connection with Sanskrit studies, the Nazis adopted the swastika , an ancient Indian symbol of immutable good luck . "Swastika " is a Sanskrit word that means well-being or good luck . It has appeared as a symbol throughout the Hindu ,


Saturday, 31 May 2014

Frizzy Lizzy


"Hi!" My name is Frizzy Lizzy

I started a little exercise regime today.  I figure it was time I started to take care of myself.  Whoever was supposed to be in charge of doing it has done a really crappy job of it.  And you can rest assured that it's as little exercise as needed.

It's said that a friend will always tell you exactly what she thinks.  So I guess that makes me friends with everybody.  It's the ones who beat around the bush that bug me.  I hope they run into a bear in those bushes.

I sometimes like to do a little texting, especially when out and about taking a walk.   Well the other day I texted someone to "Kiss my lily white aspirin!"  Do I need to tell you what the end result of that text message was after my message went through the stupid auto correct?   They came to my house looking for an albino donkey!  I snapped a photo of them to submit to the dictionary publishers to use next to the word "stupid."

Last time we talked I mentioned young guys wearing their pants down around their knees and showing their butts and underwear, if they have any.  It seems to me that poor taste has two genders.   How about the women who go around wearing tights with nothing over them and thinking they've finished dressing?   Aren't they something?   Even if you have a good figure, who wants to see that much of it?   I mean, save it for the washroom already!

Speaking of texting, I decided the other day to put some money in online investing.   I soon discovered that the trouble with online investing is after you buy a PC, monitor, modem, a printer, you got about two bucks left to invest.

Well that's the way the wind blows, eh?   There comes a certain age where you can no longer use the term "Good girl, gone bad."  Now it's more like my old ass should have known better." But then no matter what the age the ass is, we all make mistakes, just some are more prone to it.   And on that note I'll take my leave before I get caught by my own bear!

Toodles, all!

"OK," the show is over folks.
You may join The Fairy Lady for tea across the street if you wish.  

Love you all


Friday, 30 May 2014

We knew it would rain.


A poem just for you my dear friends
We knew it would rain.
Beams of silver moonlight descend to the forest floor
seemingly moving like spirits and ghosts
in the ground fog below.
Like a spirit on slender threads of mist,
shimmering like jewels upon the vapory wet stones,
A waterfall roars, it's spray is a rainbow,
shimmering in a subdued glow of the bright moonlight.
Hidden within the veil of rainbow mist can be heard
the sound of the rushing water of the falls
as it cascades into the depths of the abyss below,
settling among the reeds and water lilies, 
of the surrounding marshes and swamps,
frogs sing their melodies,
as fens scoop the dew that lay in the flowers.
Elemental faie are hard at work
dipping the floral jewels in the sea
To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
The rain will be coming soon.
When one lives close to the land and nature
one knows the signs of changing weather.
The poplars turn up the light underside of their leaves.
The wind, like the breath from the mother herself, blows,
and the lightning streaks the sky; 
the tempest will soon be here.
In the darkness of the tumult
columns of clouds light up like daylight
during the flashes of lighting.
The tall grass of the fields moves like waves at sea,
the rain comes hard and beating down the leaves and grass,
until they lay nearly flat.
The Tempest

Small rivers appear where there were none.
Raindrops seemingly explode off all they hit.
In noise of the tumult, break and wave and flow,
and crashing upon one another, the storm clouds mushroom,
reaching up to touch the moon above it would seem.
The tempest blows and threatens,
the lightning flashes and the thunder roars.
The fisherman at sea is uncertain
if body and soul will remain as one on this night.
Can he navigate his small vessel back to shore?
He is at the mercy of the mother!
Holding the wheel he closes his eyes and prays.
Along the country road,
a farmers barn falls with a loud crash. 
Elsewhere a house is struck by lightning.
Then all is silent and calm,
as the fisherman opens his eyes to see,
then smiles, and thanks the great mother.
The silvery moon comes out once again,
glistening and sparkling upon the raindrops like tiny jewels,
on webs and leaves.
All is silence except for the forest's night sounds.



Thank you very much my dear friends for being here

The Rougarou,


The Rougarou,
The Rougarou, is a kind of werewolf in the Cajun folklore of French Louisiana.

Wikipedia

The rougarou is closely associated with native American legends, although these relationships are discussed. So sometimes compared the rougarou the sasquatch and the wendigo Cannibal. According to Barry Jean Ancelet, expert of Cajun folklore and Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the legends concerning the rougarou are found in any French Louisiana, where the term is sometimes interchangeably swapped with that of werewolf [citation needed]. The legends on this subject come directly from french immigrants who settled there, as well as in the Canada. The pioneers brought with them their own folklore on lycanthropes during the European colonization of the Americas.

The stories of the creature known as a rougarou are as diverse as the spelling of its name, though they are all connected to francophone cultures through a common derived belief in the Loup-garou. Loup is French for wolf, and garou (from Frankish garulf, cognate with English werewolf) is a man who transforms into an animal.

Louisiana folklore

Rougarou represents a variant pronunciation and spelling of the original French loup-garou. According to Barry Jean Ancelet, an academic expert on Cajun folklore and professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the tale of the rougarou is a common legend across French Louisiana. Both words are used interchangeably in southern Louisiana. Some people call the monster rougarou; others refer to it as the loup garou.

The rougarou legend has been spread for many generations, either directly from French settlers to Louisiana (New France) or via the French Canadian immigrants centuries ago.

In the Cajun legends, the creature is said to prowl the swamps around Acadiana and Greater New Orleans, and possibly the fields or forests of the regions. The rougarou most often is described as a creature with a human body and the head of a wolf or dog, similar to the werewolf legend.

Often the story-telling has been used to inspire fear and obedience. One such example is stories that have been told by elders to persuade Cajun children to behave. According to another variation, the wolf-like beast will hunt down and kill Catholics who do not follow the rules of Lent. This coincides with the French Catholic loup-garou stories, according to which the method for turning into a werewolf is to break Lent seven years in a row.

A common blood sucking legend says that the rougarou is under the spell for 101 days. After that time, the curse is transferred from person to person when the rougarou draws another human’s blood. During that day the creature returns to human form. Although acting sickly, the human refrains from telling others of the situation for fear of being killed.

Other stories range from the rougarou as a headless horseman to the rougarou being derived from witchcraft. In the latter claim, only a witch can make a rougarou—either by turning into a wolf herself, or by cursing others with lycanthropy.

This legend dates back to the 16th Century. They considered the Rugaru as more of a genetic defect rather than something you could catch from another person or a spell. Basically, a person with this gene would live a normal life until it becomes active. Then, the creature's bones moves under its skin and it gains an uncontrollable hunger trait, craving raw meat. However, the final transformation wouldn't be attained until the creature takes a bite of human flesh.

Native American folklore

The creature, spelled Rugaru, has been associated with Native American legends, though there is some dispute. Such folklore versions of the rugaru vary from being mild Bigfoot (Sasquatch) creatures to cannibal-like Native American wendigos. Some dispute the connection between Native American folktales and the francophone rugaru.

As is the norm with legends transmitted by oral tradition, stories often contradict one another. The stories of the wendigo vary by tribe and region, but the most common cause of the change is typically related to cannibalism.

A modified example, not in the original wendigo legends, is that if a person sees a rugaru, that person will be transformed into one. Thereafter, the unfortunate victim will be doomed to wander in the form of this monster. That rugaru story bears some resemblance to a Native American version of the wendigo legend related in a short story by Algernon Blackwood. In Backwoods's fictional adaptation of the legend, seeing a wendigo causes one to turn into a wendigo.

It is important to note that rugaru is not a native Ojibwa word, nor is it derived from the languages of neighboring Native American peoples. However, it has a striking similarity to the French word for werewolf, loup garou. It's possible the Turtle Mountain Ojibwa or Chippewa in North Dakota picked up the French name for "hairy human-like being" from the influence of French Canadian trappers and missionaries with whom they had extensive dealings. Somehow that term also had been referenced to their neighbors' stories of Bigfoot.Author Peter Matthiessen argues that the rugaru is a separate legend from that of the cannibal-like giant wendigo. While the wendigo is feared, he notes that the rugaru is seen as sacred and in tune with Mother Earth, somewhat like Bigfoot legends are today.

Though identified with Bigfoot, there is little evidence in the indigenous folklore that it is meant to refer the same or a similar creature.

AbilitiesEdit

Shapeshifting

: When a it takes the first bite of human flesh, they become a Rougarou.

Superhuman Strength

: Rougarous are stronger than the average man, and can easily break bones.

Speed

: Rougarou are essentially like animals. Speed is necessary in order to catch its prey

Flesh Eating: Its prime motivation, and food.

Weakness

Fire - Rougarous can only be killed by fire.

Decapitation - Decapitation is the most commonly used method to kill Rougarous.

Severe Destruction to Body - Destroying head, heart or entire body will kill it.


























Thursday, 29 May 2014

Dark Elves


Dark Elves


If there are light elves it would only seem reasonable that there should be dark elves. Or so it would seem. Well, to the best of my knowledge there are indeed dark elves and this is what I have been able to learn about them.


The dark elf hates the sun and lives in the murky underground. The dark elves can not be exposed to sunlight, if the sun’s rays hit them they will immediately turn into stones. They are hideous in appearance and can be a great nuisance to humans. Some have been described as extremely annoying and nothing but trouble.

Many believe that dark elves are responsible for the nightmares. These dark elves are called mare. A mare will sit on a sleeping person’s chest and whisper bad dreams to haunt the person. A mare can also haunt animals, especially horses.

Their skin color ranges from darker shades of purple to lighter shades of gray, although many groups have skin as black as night. At twilight, dark elves are virtually invisible, almost undetectable unless they desire to be seen. Some have white hair and some black, some glowing red eyes while others have white eyes seemingly without pupils, and yet others have normal appearing eyes. Eerily beautiful, these elves exude a sense of wickedness cloaked in mystery.

Although associated with the dwarfs by some accounts because their lands are adjoining, the dark elves really have very little to do with dwarfs. While dwarfs busy themselves with creating, dark elves tend to be users or destructive.

The literary Dark elf is actually a product of the writings of a famous Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson, c. 1179-1241. Snorri’s famous book (poem), the Younger Edda, makes a short reference to the dark elves as being the maintainers of the fires burning deep below the world tree, or Yggdrasil:

Then said Ganglere: Great tidings you are able to tell of the heavens. Are there other remarkable places than the one by Urd’s fountain? Answered Har: There are many magnificent dwellings. One is there called Alfheim. There dwell the folk that are called light-elves; but the dark-elves dwell down in the earth, and they are unlike the light-elves in appearance, but much more so in deeds. The light-elves are fairer than the sun to look upon, but the dark-elves are blacker than pitch. 


Another place is called Breidablik, and no place is fairer. There is also a mansion called Glitner, of which the walls and pillars and posts are of red gold, and the roof is of silver. Furthermore, there is a dwelling, by name Himinbjorg, which stands at the end of heaven, where the Bifrost-bridge is united with heaven. And there is a great dwelling called Valaskjalf, which belongs to Odin. The gods made it and thatched it with, sheer silver. In this hall is the high-seat, which is called Hlidskjalf, and when Alfather sits in this seat, he sees over all the world. In the southern end of the world is the palace, which is the fairest of all, and brighter than the sun; its name is Gimle. It shall stand when both heaven and earth shall have passed away. In this hall the good and the righteous shall dwell through all ages (Sturluson, 17).

The dark elves, also known by their ancient Norse name dökkálfar, are a sinister subspecies of elf found in many fantasy settings and having their origins in ancient Norse mythology where they were named svartálfar ("swart elves" or "black elves" in Old Norse) and were depicted as light-hating supernatural beings akin to the unclean spirits and demons of later Christian tales and legends.

Dark elves were seen as greedy and troublesome in regards to humanity but were not strictly malevolent, although they shared some common traits with the trolls - such as turning to stone when exposed to direct sunlight and being humanoid in shape but extremely ugly.

In all fairness, it must be said that the majority of dark elves live by their own code of honor -- much as giants do. If you bargain fairly with them, it is possible to survive an encounter with a dark elf. However, entering Svartalfheim is a risky proposition unless you are quite powerful, and even then you may well find that entering was much easier than leaving.

Female dark elves are universally attractive, beguiling men of other races easily. Their sexual capacity is legendary although their predilections and unwholesome appetites make such trysts difficult to survive. Still, men, dwarfs, and elves are all fascinated with these dusky, erotic creatures.

Many if not most, dark elves practice sorcery, although their magics are bent on thieving, assassination, warfare, and other dark pursuits. Some claim dark elves are necromancers, acquiring magical potency through the deaths of others. However, it is difficult to verify these claims as few survive their encounters with the dark sorcerers.

In public at least, dark elves eat whatever everyone else eats, normal food such as would be fit for humans as well. However, as giants do, it is rumored that dark elves dine on the flesh of the other races. It is even possible they are cannibalistic, although this is never been determined in any verifiable way.


I wouldn't want to meet up with these guys but, again, are these traits the fabrication of a human's perception of another species, or is there a duality in the unseen world?