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I love First Nations folk-lore and art. This is a bit of my tribute to it.

Myth obviously stolen from Wikipedia.

"Long ago, near the beginning of the world, Gray Eagle was the guardian of the Sun, Moon and Stars, of fresh water, and of fire. Gray Eagle hated people so much that he kept these things hidden. People lived in darkness, without fire and without fresh water.

Gray Eagle had a beautiful daughter, and Raven fell in love with her. At that time Raven was a handsome young man. He changed himself into a snow-white bird, and as a snow-white bird he pleased Gray Eagle's daughter. She invited him to her father's longhouse.

When Raven saw the Sun, Moon and stars, and fresh water hanging on the sides of Eagle's lodge, he knew what he should do. He watched for his chance to seize them when no one was looking. He stole all of them, and a brand of fire also, and flew out of the longhouse through the smoke hole. As soon as Raven got outside he hung the Sun up in the sky. It made so much light that he was able to fly far out to an island in the middle of the ocean. When the Sun set, he fastened the Moon up in the sky and hung the stars around in different places. By this new light he kept on flying, carrying with him the fresh water and the brand of fire he had stolen.

He flew back over the land. When he had reached the right place, he dropped all the water he had stolen. It fell to the ground and there became the source of all the fresh-water streams and lakes in the world. Then Raven flew on, holding the brand of fire in his bill. The smoke from the fire blew back over his white feathers and made them black. When his bill began to burn, he had to drop the firebrand. It struck rocks and hid itself within them. That is why, if you strike two stones together, sparks of fire will drop out.

Raven's feathers never became white again after they were blackened by the smoke from the firebrand. That is why Raven is now a black bird."

I decided to draw Grey Eagle's daughter in traditional Tlingit dress.

Done entirely in Photoshop.

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:iconhokuto:
... she is GORGEOUS. o.o That lovely hair and design... :heart: Most beautiful work.

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:icontizrak:
Wow! I really, really like it! And thank you for sharing the story behind it as well.
:iconyzabel:
A nice story to share, for an even nicer picture. I quite dig out the pose, and how both figures are intertwining through her hair.

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:iconsilvemoor:
Wow. I love this change from you normal style. It's nice to see that you can switch from slightly cartoonish to realism. Beautiful.

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This is gorgeous. I love mythology, and now that i'm older, I enjoy learning about the less known myths like the one you listed here.

This is an amazing work; I'd love to see what you do with some Norse work as well.

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Thank you. :D

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Thanks. :)

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I'm glad you like it. You're very welcome. It's one of my favourites.

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Thanks. I have this thing with hair.. lol

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