Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 19 - Djinn

Oct 20, 200917 min read

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Published: Oct 20, 2009

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Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 19 - Djinn

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This week's creature feature is: Djinn

From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn :
In Islam, a Djinn (also jinn, genie) is a supernatural creature which occupies a parallel world to that of mankind.
The word genie derives from Latin genius, which meant a sort of tutelary or guardian spirit thought to be assigned to each person at their birth. English borrowed the French descendent of this word, génie; its earliest written attestation in English, in 1655, is a plural spelled genyes. The French translators of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights used génie as a translation of jinnī because it was similar to the Arabic word in sound and in meaning. This use was also adopted in English and has since become dominant.
In other cultures, as in the Mythology Guanche (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain), also existed the belief in beings that qualify as genies, such as the so-called Gods paredros or Maxios (domestic spirits and nature), the Tibicenas (evil genies) and also demon Guayota (aboriginal god of evil) that, like the Arabic Iblis, is sometimes identified with a genie.
The evil "Ifrit" are called “the seed of Iblees” in One Thousand and One Nights. The Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin, a familiar djinn to the Western world, was such a jinni, having been bound to an oil lamp.

Now, for the features! Works are featured from various categories, in no particular order:

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Commission: Classical by fayrenpickpocket

Genie of the Emerald Colour by TonicShadow

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Thank you so much for viewing, and come back next week for a different inhabitant of the Realms of Fantasy and Myth!