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Queen Mab 1by =RomanticFae

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

In the Celtic tradition, Queen Mab was also known as Queen Maeve. "Maeve" means mead and it was said that Mab gave this blood red wine to all of her consorts. Mead wine represented menstrual blood which was considered "the wine of women's wisdom". In Warwickshire, the word "Mabled" came to mean "led astray by the faeries or elves". In Cymric (the Welsh language) Mab was defined as meaning "small child". Additionally, Mab meant "Drunk Woman" and "Queen Wolf".

Mythologically, Mab was the Queen of Connact; the warrior queen of the Ulster Cycle. She was the combined mother/warrior aspect of the Triple Goddess. The Pagan festival of Mabon was celebrated in her honor each year at the Autumnal Equinox. During the festival, those wishing to be King were not endorsed unless Mab invited them to drink of her mead wine. This ensured that the male king would be well versed in feminism and women's mysteries.

Queen Mab has enticed many to write about her in fiction. Earl Spencer wrote "The Fairy Queen" in which she appeared. One of the most notable references to Mab is in the speech by Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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all the wonderful stockists who helped by letting me use their stock textures
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wings by:

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bark texture by:

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*ZutaraMushroom Apr 11, 2010

"quean" and "mab" were also words that people in shakespearean times used meaning prostitues or whores

just fyi

~MayWild Dec 24, 2009

OMG! this is amazing! ahh, one little thing, I read the artist comments and you said 'Cymric', i think you mean 'Cymraeg'

I'm welsh and I speak fluent Welsh (cymraeg). Mab means 'Son'

=RomanticFae Jan 2, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thanks hun
oops my bad

~MayWild Jan 3, 2010

hah and time
& no worries

welsh can be a little confusing somtimes

=RomanticFae Jan 4, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

i think i just copy and pasted from the site but i should of checked as well the internet is vast and wrong as lot of the time

#one-stop-stock Dec 9, 2007

Hey there

Just letting you know this image has been feature in our news article here [link]
Thanks

=RomanticFae Dec 9, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thank u so much for the feature

~Mhara Nov 7, 2007 Digital Artist

Not bad! lol I wanted Maeve as a nickname (taken haha)

I really like how you did the wings! The character design is spectacular! The one thing that really bothers me with this piece is the linework. With such pretty skintones, the linework takes it away and makes it look really flat, which it isn't. Other than that, the anatomy is all correct besides the hands may be a little large and the head a little small. Good job with it ^^

=RomanticFae Nov 7, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thank u yeah i agree with all of that im at the moment doing a version of this without line art where i will fix all that up hopefully

~Mhara Nov 8, 2007 Digital Artist

Cool! :3

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