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Most faeries, in my research experience (and that includes books, ancient accounts, channelers and modern day mediums), naturally live in a place called the “Otherworld”, which has many other names as well: Tir Na NOg, Annwn, Avalon, Tir Tairngire, the Elysian Fields, the list continues on etc. In this place their true forms exist, but outside of this land of eternal youth and beauty, faeries are naught more than formless energy, which is the reason that they sometimes appear as balls of light or orbs in pictures. My daughters have several thousand pictures of these orbs, taken from everywhere around the world. However, in order for faeries to exist as more than balls of light, they must create forms, these forms consist of condensed energy that has been gathered from things around them, such as electricity, the earth, other humans, fire, etc. which explains the reason that my first blonde friend was able to manifest himself, he had all the countless years and energies spent in Ireland at his hands.

Time is ageless and never ending, and to an immortal being, time is absolutely nothing. Faeries exist out of time and can draw upon anything and everything from the past to the future. So the blonde fae that I met upon the Hill of Tara might have been able to manifest himself because he could draw upon the energy of ages, of wars and ancient kings crowned upon the earth there.

My daughter calls these forms “seemings”, as faeries “seem” to become something that they are not originally. These forms have also been called “glamour”, but glamour is the magic in which faeries use to disguise themselves while already having a “physical” form. I have heard others call it a “shimmer”, but the point is that these forms can be destroyed and remade as easily as my daughter can build a sand castle and my other daughter can destroy it and rebuild it again.

However, I personally would rather equate these forms to that of the Hindu “avatar”. An avatar is a form that a god would create in order to make his or her descent from the Heavens to Earth easier. Gods cannot simply walk amongst humans, it would frighten us to death and we would not be able to obtain the important information that this particular god or creature has to offer us, therefore this god must create an avatar, strong enough to support his or her immensely powerful and immortal form. An avatar exists for the sole purpose of housing the god, for whatever amount of time the god chooses to keep it. The downside to having an avatar is that they can be killed or destroyed by either human or another immortal influence.

The Hindu gods are also not the only gods to have avatars, or learn how to use them. It can be argued, and has been, that Jesus is God’s avatar, that God wanted to know why his creations were not listening to him or following his guidance and so, he created a human form in which he could experience the human process and gain knowledge which he had not known before. However, because an avatar can be killed or destroyed, he eventually was, returning to the Heavens in which he had come, but with a completely different outlook on humanity. Zeus and many of the Greek and Roman gods are also known for using avatars, Zeus especially to fulfill his many mortal desires away from the prying eyes of his jealous wife.

Is it possible that the Tuatha de Danann and faeries alike use avatars in order to manifest for an extended period of time in the human realm? Almost definitely. Many of the Tuatha de Danann are, by their own records of mythology, deceased, from either their various wars, raids or simply by a great deal of misfortune. But, if faeries are immortal and time is endless and their “physical” forms are merely avatars that are easily created and destroyed upon a whim, then it is possible that they are not nearly as dead as their own mythology proclaims them to be.

Alex

Wow! that was interesting, thank you i learn something new everyday