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Description Finn Mac Cumhail, as a boy, was sent to Finnegas the Bard, to learn wisdom and the ways of the world. Now Finnegas had been fishing for the Salmon of Knowledge for seven long years.. (Salmon that ate the nine hazelnuts in the Well of Segais, yadda, yadda, yadda).. Now the day that Finn was sent to Finnegas, Finnegas had actually caught the fish. Because Finn was placed as his apprentice, he gave him the fish to cook.. but there was one condition. Finn COULD NOT eat the fish.. Finnegas was saving that honor for himself.
Now Finn, being the good lad that he was, quickly set about cooking the fish. But getting the fire too hot (he was, after all, a momma's boy), the fish began to blister and Finn in his eagerness to do the job right, quickly tried to pry the blister off. In doing so, his own thumb got burned and began to blister. Before thinking about the juice from the fish that may be on his own finger, he quickly began to suck the blister on his thumb.. Thus all the world's wisdom became reposited in Finn, fulfilling a prophecy..

EDIT: I probably should have put the latin translation in the description.. "A mari usque ad mare"-From sea to sea
"A priori"-From before "A posteriori"-From after "Ab aeterno"-To eternity
"Sapientia Mundus Regatur" - Wisdom rules the world

The "Balaenae nobis conservenae sunt" part was just me being catty.. Pretty much translates into The Whales let there be conservation of.. which is Save the Whales.. I don't know.. it seemed appropriate at the time with the picture of the fish and all.. I'm not caring for it now.
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Comments: 49

CapnDeek373 [2008-01-09 12:48:35 +0000 UTC]

Hmm. Hazelnut and fish. Now there's something to experiment with.
Finn didn't enter SL as a pelican did he?

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Xantoss [2006-07-03 08:16:46 +0000 UTC]

You continue to blow my mind, this is fantastic.

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kaidoh In reply to Xantoss [2006-07-04 02:08:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.. Your commenting on this has inspired me to do more knotwork..

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Xantoss In reply to kaidoh [2006-07-04 02:42:40 +0000 UTC]

Excellent! I can't wait to see them.

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RobynTheArtRat [2006-07-02 01:27:58 +0000 UTC]

I've heard a story like this, only it was Cerridwen the goddess who had her apprentice stirring a brew, and she was saving it for her son....I think I have a link for it: [link]
Beautiful illustration, by the way - I love how it looks on the oldish, wrinkled paper....

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kaidoh In reply to RobynTheArtRat [2006-07-02 13:31:47 +0000 UTC]

Coolness! We'll do that for the monthly myth next month in *TheKnotters club.. and it is very similiar isn't it?

Thank you.. I'd kill to have a couple of pieces of REAL parchment, not this paper crap, but real sheep skin.

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RobynTheArtRat In reply to kaidoh [2006-07-06 14:34:57 +0000 UTC]

Parchment is made of sheepskin? That's something I didn't know......
Glad I could bring the myth to your attention . Yeah, the two are most likely related......I imagine it's been translated a lot and passed down through word of mouth.

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kaidoh In reply to RobynTheArtRat [2006-07-07 11:04:10 +0000 UTC]

Well.. parchment can be made of multiple stuffs.. but the one with the texture I really want is Sheepskin.

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Majnouna [2006-06-26 14:54:24 +0000 UTC]

Man, I love the look of this and the mystery evoked by the design. It's really something

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kaidoh In reply to Majnouna [2006-07-02 13:32:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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enricap [2006-05-22 14:33:01 +0000 UTC]

I could stare at the details for hours.

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kaidoh In reply to enricap [2006-05-23 01:21:00 +0000 UTC]

LOL.. didn't feel like all that much detail at the time. Felt like a rather simple piece. I'm glad you like it! (The hardest part, honestly, was the latin..)

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ladysorcha [2006-04-17 04:23:00 +0000 UTC]

This is stunning. I love the aged look to the paper. It looks so thin, almost like parchment. Most medieval illuminations I've seen are so bright and colorful; this is a gorgeous change from the 'typical' period art I've been exposed to.

The story was fabulous. Thank you for sharing this.

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kaidoh In reply to ladysorcha [2006-04-17 11:04:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.. I'm not one for a lot of color, I tend to think it makes things look gaudy & surrealistic. Our eyes don't perceive color in real life that brightly. I liked the story and wanted to do something with a fishy picture I'd done that nobody else seemed to like. *chuckles* I'm not sure if that's what hazel nuts look like, but it works for me. Thank you very much for liking the story and the picture.

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Lisadora [2006-03-07 19:58:36 +0000 UTC]

cool

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NobleDreamhome [2006-03-03 21:22:37 +0000 UTC]

Cool! I've never heard that story before. And I love this piece, it's just amazing!

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Scandranon [2006-03-02 23:12:06 +0000 UTC]

nice work ... could u note me some book references for celtic mythology ? i whould be very thanksfull

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kaidoh In reply to Scandranon [2006-03-03 11:23:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Helens-Serendipity [2006-02-28 15:53:58 +0000 UTC]

What a lovely story & a lovely piece of work too

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Wolfdog [2006-02-27 12:06:01 +0000 UTC]

Really beautiful, I love the aged colours effect

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PippinIncarnate [2006-02-26 02:14:17 +0000 UTC]

Yay!! I remember something like that when I last read up on celtic mythology...but that was long ago....I lost my book and can't find it!!! Gah!!!! but yay for the awsome artwork too!!! Yay for Latin!!

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kaidoh In reply to PippinIncarnate [2006-02-26 06:11:49 +0000 UTC]

I probably should have put the latin translation in the description.. "A mari usque ad mare"-From sea to sea
"A priori"-From before "A posteriori"-From after "Ab aeterno"-To eternity
"Sapientia Mundus Regatur" - Wisdom rules the world

The "Balaenae nobis conservenae sunt" part was just me being catty.. Pretty much translates into The Whales let there be conservation of.. which is Save the Whales.. I don't know.. it seemed appropriate at the time with the picture of the fish and all.. I'm not caring for it now.
Thanks for the wonderful comment.

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PippinIncarnate In reply to kaidoh [2006-02-26 08:06:50 +0000 UTC]

Yay for save the whales too ^.^ yeah, I recognised a few latin words (mare, posteriori..) and now I can see some of the connexions to french like Mundus to La Monde. And Balaenae!! Baleen!!!!

ehehehe....

Brana necare me vult, quod, facio Brana in palla.....non timeo sum.....

don't ask....brana is an original character of mine.....I just started latin this year in school and felt like showing off XDDDD<--dork

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Cevoi [2006-02-25 14:19:26 +0000 UTC]

lovely ^^

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kaidoh In reply to Cevoi [2006-02-25 14:49:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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Sindakri [2006-02-25 06:29:46 +0000 UTC]

That's a lovely image, seriously. It reminds me of my medieval stories and inspires me to write more! I really like this.

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kaidoh In reply to Sindakri [2006-02-25 14:46:07 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad it inspires you! Thank you..

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neondevil [2006-02-25 06:06:54 +0000 UTC]

Was that done all with pen and paper?

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kaidoh In reply to neondevil [2006-02-25 14:45:26 +0000 UTC]

The original fish was, and I want to say it's in my scraps.. everything else, I did on a wacom tablet freehand in Photoshop.. our cats had turned over my bottle of acrylic ink..

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Vanar [2006-02-24 17:48:28 +0000 UTC]

Great work

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kaidoh In reply to Vanar [2006-02-25 05:02:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.

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RavenWillowHawk [2006-02-24 17:34:10 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful piece. Love the knotwork!

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kaidoh In reply to RavenWillowHawk [2006-02-25 05:01:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much..

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Lorna36 [2006-02-24 17:01:15 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful piece , I really like the design and colour. I love celtic mythology.

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kaidoh In reply to Lorna36 [2006-02-25 05:00:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.. I plan on doing several more like this..

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Ilharess [2006-02-24 07:43:46 +0000 UTC]

i love old celtic stories and your work is beautiful

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kaidoh In reply to Ilharess [2006-02-24 11:11:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.. I really liked this story in particular..

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Ilharess In reply to kaidoh [2006-02-24 11:18:19 +0000 UTC]

yes, it shows how the boy was raised to respect elders, but he did receive the gift that was meant for him as a reward. it's not really destiny, it's the way we choose to live.

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kaidoh In reply to Ilharess [2006-02-24 11:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Exactly.. However, the oral traditions really rely heavily upon the idea of destiny and that things will happen as they are meant to. There's a lot of discussion as to whether or not Finn Mac Cumhail's father was the child of a slave or not (Cumal means female slave) and his father's name was Cumhail. The whole story ties into the idea of prophecy and Finnegas the bard was actuallly trying to fulfill that prophecy in himself..when it was meant for Finn.

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Ilharess In reply to kaidoh [2006-02-24 11:29:31 +0000 UTC]

there are things that are meant to be and i know that most of such prophecies come true as they are the most probably ways. but the boy could have done other things

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kaidoh In reply to Ilharess [2006-02-24 12:10:46 +0000 UTC]

True enough.. But then I don't think tradition would hail the leader of the ancient ppls of Eire to be a deadbeat and cheat as a kid..Even if he was. You know the old saying, history is written by the victors..
I'm going to pull out my trusty old Celtic mythology book and maybe do a whole series of these. Find myths that incorporate hounds, etc.. use a different type of knotwork on each one, because I really enjoyed this piece.

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Ilharess In reply to kaidoh [2006-02-24 12:22:07 +0000 UTC]

that would be great!!! i have friends in ireland and my friend is a great story teller, amongst other things. i'm looking forward on seeing your work and reading those stories again.
but it's true what you say, all write glorious stories about their leaders, but the stories should be an example of what people should be like, at least

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OmniaMutantur [2006-02-24 07:43:15 +0000 UTC]

Amazing knotwork!

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kaidoh In reply to OmniaMutantur [2006-02-24 11:10:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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xgealicdraganx [2006-02-21 16:31:22 +0000 UTC]

sweet! go Finn, you should get all that wisdom....and stuff. smexy knots there

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Fuesousha-Kinoko [2006-02-21 06:54:08 +0000 UTC]

great work!! I especially like the colours

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Apothacer [2006-02-21 04:15:39 +0000 UTC]

Sounds exactly like Siggurd and the Dragon! He was cooking the dragons heart on a spit, he had killed it as an aprentice to another. The hot fat splatered his hand and he sucked at it and so gained all the wisdom. In the grims Fairy tales there was a bird of golden feathers cooked by a whife for her husband. Into the pan fell the heart and liver, looked like blobs of fat. The wife took pity on her two sons that the husband was cruel too. They eagerly desired the drippings which she let them have. The had a gold coin under their pillow each morning form then on, cheating their cruel father out of the fortune that he would have had from the magic bird.

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Torniquei [2006-02-20 17:49:51 +0000 UTC]

Go Greenpeace!

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kaidoh In reply to Torniquei [2006-02-20 17:51:38 +0000 UTC]

Yeppers.. been around a LONG long time..

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