Meet The Faerie Queene

The name, Tanja, is the diminutive for Titania, which means "Queen of the Fairies". Shakespeare calls her "Titania" and "Queen Mab", Tolkien names her "Galadriel". However, in most folklore she is called only by her titles: The Queen of Elfland, or the Faerie Queene who rules over both Seelie and Unseelie fae alike. In Celtic folklore, the Faerie Queene rules the realm of the Sidhe, the land of "the little people". Also called Tir na Nog (Land of Youth), in that otherworldly place, time stood still, and neither age nor sickness could enter in. Those who strayed into the land of Faerie, according to legend, often found themselves waking up to discover that while they had experienced only a single night in the other world, on Earth, a hundred years had passed. The Faerie Queene's habit of taking mortal lovers has been a favorite theme in song and story, from the ancient ballad of "Thomas the Rhymer" to Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ibsen's "Peer Gynt". Let this be a warning to those who know of these tales: the Queen's fancy is often a perilous proposition for the human in question. Many have been warned that to enter the realm of the Faerie is to lose all sense of time and things familiar. Are you brave enough to risk enchantment? Video by OhTony. Filmed at Los Angeles Burning Man Decom, October 2004.

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Google Video | January 10, 2007

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