Lanea inghean Uí Chiaragáin

Pelican & Supplementary Scroll

at Ruby Joust, 27 May A.S. LVIII (58) 2023

Calligraphy & Illumination

Kolfinna ValravnRoxbury MillAtlantia

Wordifier

Lady Talia de Morales Atlantia
Heed that sound echoing down the mountain duskLeaping torchlight and clear timbrel with all her raven host,Seabird on clamorous wings bearing a wild music,Bee nectar for those joyous rites of custom.And if they ask, who do not know, “What’s this womanWho comes in raiment savage, garland of fierce song?”If the asker be no cruel beast in the way of careless Acteon,Who was prideful, but are instead true as beacon-fire,A respecter of honor, forest, and guest-right, why then,Those supple pelts she wears are but holy fawn-skinDappled dark with wisdom and the work of freely given time
And the mad drum shouts of her feral procession,Sound but to uplift weary hearts who great good seek. And her hands? Not but madder stained, from dye,In service to/ the city numen in any land that knows her name.But if that asker dares speak scorn from naked throat,He’d do better to closer look and mark him wellThe fate of those who upon the sacred ways profane.So river deep and so bright hot runs the red blood Of those who give themselves to serve.  Thus Ollam Lanea inghean Uí Chiaragáin isMade a member of the Pelican OrderFor this Ruby Joust, and for all the days that are. Given by Afshin, King and Yasmin, Queen

Materials

Saltillo tile
Black Acrylic PaintAcrylic Varnish

Substrate Size

11.5" square

Script

Greek: Attic

Source

Red-Figure Cup Showing the Death of Pentheus (exterior) and a Maenad (interior), c. 480 B.C. Douris (painter), Greek. https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-200002

Red-Figure Pelike with Actor Dressed as BirdCULTURE Greek, AtticPERIOD ClassicalDATE 430-420 BCE
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/24341/redfigure-pelike-with-actor-dressed-as-bird 
Supplementary scroll source:Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturashttps://whc.unesco.org/en/list/936/ 

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