Steemit name Challenge: What is YIDNETH? A graphic novel nourishing all my music projects

I honestly cannot recall who nominated me to do this. Either way I am super late joining this challenge and I cannot recall who did it but here it is :). And I can tell you in advance this post will help you to get to know me better in many ways. The original idea on this contest was shared by @felobtc quite a while ago but it is still working and helping us to get to know each other :). This was the original post that started it all https://steemit.com/steemitnamechallenge/@felobtc/the-steemit-name-challenge

The Rules:

• Tell us in your post how you chose the current Steemit username you have, the story behind it.
• Tell us your real name!
• If you could change your current Steemit username, which name would you choose and why? If you have a possible usernames list, mention it! Use the tag #steemitnamechallenge so that I can track all the posts and check them out
• Nominate 5 people for this challenge

My steemit user name "Yidneth". What does it mean?

Above: Back cover of "YIDNETH" (I made that drawing mid 90s more than two decades ago!!)

Yidneth is my trademark and the name of my record label and also the title of a personal artistic project that has nourished my art since I was a child. It is a project that has grown up with me and has shifted with me too.

Yidneth started as a horror/fantasy novel that I illustrated to make a comic out of it. It consists of a 74 coloured pages that I scripted as a child and took shape as a graphic novel mid 90's. Though a number of the illustrations have been featured in publications or been remade to be featured in my published artworks, the project remains unpublished as a whole.

Still my illustrated music albums include drawings, scenes and characters that were born in it. So my CDs are in fact "Soundtracks" to my YIDNETH story.
Here an example of how the project entwines with my music and videos.

https://steemit.com/music/@yidneth/music-video-and-making-of-in-the-mist-with-my-animated-illustrations-original-music-behind-the-scenes-from-art-to-video

Of course there are different realms, stories and spin-offs but most of the concepts were born in that first early graphic novel. And though my style has changed a lot since, I wonder if one day I will rescue the project and rewrite it to fit my actual style and skills. I wanted to be a writer, then I added illustrations, finally a score. But considering to redo this one Should I? Drop your encouragement!

Artistically it is one the projects that have satisfied me the most, not only because I do believe the story is worthy, but also because I've gotten used to their characters and have created an alternative world around it. Yidneth is about fairies and ghosts but neither a fairytale nor a ghost story.

The four realms in YIDNETH

Above: my drawing of "Yidneth" in The Underliving (http://theunderliving.com) (2011)

Yidneth is also the "Universe" in which many of my drawings and songs are based upon.

THE LIVING (also called THE FLESH) The one we dwell, that is us, souls enclosed and incarnated in bodies. The only realm most of us will ever know, experience or remember. Though sometimes our crysalis is torn and our eyes can see beyond its wrapping.

The UNDERLIVING things living but not alive also title of my second album http://theunderliving.com. A world close to the LIVING casting their influence, weaving the fabric of our dreams and thoughts. The inhabitants of this realm never lived but have a presence that sometimes is perceive it when we shape it with our imagination.
Have you ever heard words when the wind whispers? Have you ever stared into an empty corner until "something" stirs?
Dormant in the corner of our eyes, always there always hidden to your sight

Above: The Underliving illustrated booklet (http://theunderliving.com)

THE LOOM a realm of silver paths that SOULS without a body create as they want to incarnate to feel complete. Ghosts are rather bitter and sad creatures but the ubiquitous threads of the loom make them the perfect "messengers" as they can travel easily from one kingdom to another.

THE ANCIENT or the Elemental World, a world of SPIRITS that don't require body to be complete. The whole realm is an expansion of the feelings and thoughts of "The Ancient" the very spirit of physical matter and Nature. It/he will take shape and Yidneth will become "The Ancient's" wife. My first album was "Ancient shadows"

Above: The Ancient depicted in "Ancient Shadows" (2006)

There are several stories branched out of them but the main "Yidneth" is a simple romantic yet bitter story in the Elemental World between "The Ancient" an elemental god, ruler of the "spirit world". It is a fairy/ghost/underworld cross-over. Inspired both by my love of fairy and ghost literature and my experiences with sleep paralysis. I do not wish to be very revealing so if you want to see this one finished, encouraged is welcome, though great parts of it are already scattered in my two albums and forthcoming one.

Part of the story takes place in a different time/space setting and dwells with metaphysical concepts as our own "identity".

Remember who you were. Be aware of you are. Decide who you will be

Below: A recent drawing of "Yidneth" with one of "The Underliving" creatures just in ink as it will be featured in my forthcoming album "Fear no More"

My real name is Priscilla Hernandez which is also my artist name

It is not a mystery. I have been using my real name along with my songs, publications, writings, albums since I started sharing them. I thought it was sensible that my authorship would be linked to my real name. My real name is actually Priscilla Hernandez and that is how you can find me if you google me or look for my music online on Itunes or Spotify. My official website is both yidneth.com or priscillahernandez.com so wether you use my nickname or user name it redirects to the same place. :). I used to dislike my name when I was little but as I am a fan of Tolkien, the writer of "The Lord of the Rings" , I grew fond of it when I found he named his daughter Priscilla Tolkien.

Still my merchandising uses my logo and trademark... I never thought "Priscilla Hernandez" would do a nice t-shirt hahaha. I sort of regretted but I have too much material published by my real name already, which sounds "not very magical, unfortunately" sigh!

A curiosity, a coincidence, maybe synchronicity or perhaps magic: YIDNETH is a Goddess

When I created my YIDNETH logo and trademark that I designed myself I drew an "Y" and I also made the shape of a woman inspired in the character of my story in spirit form. It was during a performance in Oregon, when one listener came to gift me a pendant with "The Goddess" symbol as a gift as it was similar to my logo. The Goddess, A representation of Mother Earth, and Divinity in Women. I was thrilled and I have treasured it. I am wearing it today. Many people if I am a Witch or Pagan. I am just "Spiritual" but I have found my own ways to connect to the worlds I create through lucid dreaming and art creation.

But who is YIDNETH? what kind of creature she is? It's a mystery even in my own book. Was this a coincidence?

Other listeners and followers of my work has gifted me items with my logo engraved or sculpted, here a few of the most special.

Above: a glass cup sculpted in the shape of my logo "YIDNETH" made by a friend and listener River (USA).
Below: My double Ocarina, one of the instruments I play, made by instrument maker Charlie Hind and with my logo engraved on it.

I even have a dress custom made by one of my listeners who had it sent to my USA premiere. Her name is Linda Blankenship and we would meet in person in another concert in Baltimore some years after. It remains one of my favourite gowns and it's special because it has my own logo embroidered into it.

And now I see YIDNETH logo everywhere

In trees, in flowers...
Once I found that connection I started to stumble upon the shape everywhere

Above: Very recent photo of a tree that looks likes "Yidneth" logo. Can you see her shape? It almost look she was about to walk.

Inside flowers...

Channelling that Goddess now in me

So as you know I love Nature, hugging trees.
Somehow through the years in my imagination "Yidneth" has become my alter-ego in my imagination. Of course I am not her, nor I have been bestowed the gifts and powers she has in my story. But through my poems, my drawings, the novel, my songs... she is alive inside me.
It is said "every woman channels and goddess". Yidneth is mine.
She is present not only as my trademark, logo and company but also as one of the characters that appear in all my albums, she gathers the stories... she is the "Queen of her Realm" (title of one of my songs)
So whenever I feel connected to something magical I lift my arms... and I let her out
The Goddess that lives in me, the one that rules in my "imaginary world"

is she me...? or am I her?

But when she's alone she gives in careless flight... and thus she became the Queen of her Realm

If I could chose another user name...

Unlikely, I've used "Yidneth" or my real name so long... in fact you can locate me as "yidneth" in almost every network I use twitter, youtube,facebook and
instagram and of course my official website http://yidneth.com

And I nominate...
I know some of you may have done it already, so feel free to post yours in comments :)

@photovisions
@pechichemena
@d-vine
@wildempress
@hedac