mysterious like the moon....

[Caelan Arendor]

Today I would like to share a few thoughts about what is perhaps the most beautiful and seductive female figure in the Wheel of Time epic — Lanfear, also known as Cyndane.

 

Robert Jordan likely borrowed her name from French, where l’enfer means ‘hell.’ There is even a French idiom, faire vivre l’enfer à quelqu’un, meaning ‘to make someone’s life a living hell.’

 

Selene, meanwhile, is in Greek mythology the goddess of the moon — a radiant woman who drives her chariot across the night sky, sister of the sun god Helios and daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. This name seems to allude to her alias ‘Daughter of the Night,’ and helps explain her nature as bound up with darkness and seduction. I trust I am not too far off the mark this time...

 

and as always best 73 --.../...--

 

from Calean