QUOTE(WyrdScience @ Feb 8 2007, 09:38 AM)
I am trying to Identify a certain deity/entity/group/astral culture/pantheon (choose any/all) that fits the description of the following abstract elements. Be careful, it's somewhat jumbled, because I know -what- I am looking for, but don't know -how-, -who-, or -where-!
Is as follows:
-Dark, but benevolent and good, sorta the same feel one gets from a crimson twilight on halloween, in a victorian neighborhood, with the smell of burning wood from various fireplaces surround you. A faint smell of vanilla fills your nostrils. (this is the most blatant and accurate description I could express)
-A "Gentle Shade" energy, if you will.
-Feminine aspect of such is best characterized by Gothic Lolitas, and Male aspect best characterized as "Cloak and Dagger poet."
-Very gentle.
-Not very much into the "tough love," and sarcasm/smartassness is NOT a tenet.
-Stands more for more of a developmental nurturing sanctuary and safe-haven rather than for hard-knock education.
-A gentle grace and beauty.
-If there was an element/flavor/type to this energy which is used, I would say either "Twilight" or "Cosmic," perhaps both.
Any Ideas where to start looking for what I seek? Is it a person? Is it a place? Is it an object? A God(dess)? Perhaps a time? Is it the unknown itself (now thats just TOO abstract and in the clouds!)?
(ALTERNATE) Or, could it be that such a combination of characteristics has never been discovered, and that I need to start an astral domain of my own where this is a reality?
Interesting. From your description it has the ring to it of being one of the Dead instead of an elemental. Although there is a classification of Trickster Spirits - not like Loki, Coyote, EXU, etc. - but rather a minor entity like what's known in Europe as a Brownie, Boggart, Gremlin, and so on. These Spirits typically can altern themselves to appear as whatever they wish and thus one of the reasons for practitioenrs of old to learn discern the differences. If the Spitit is cold, then it's usually one of the Dead whereas if it exuded a warm feeling it's probably a Trickster that was screwing with you.