🖌️🎨 Birds-maidens Alkonost and Sirin, Gamayun in Slavic mythology Sirin is a messenger of the underworld, a bird personifying dark power, therefore depicted with a sad face and in dark tones. Alkonost is a light bird that brings happiness, depicted with multi-colored wings and a light appearance, sometimes depicted with a scroll in her hands. Gamayun is a prophetic bird. Alkonost, according to the mythology of the East Slavic peoples, is a bird Alkonost with the head and chest of a girl, sometimes depicted in a crown. Another bird from Paradise is described together with her - Sirin, her complete opposite. Both of them have sweet, enchanting voices. Birds-maidens captivate people with their singing so that "the soul leaves the body." But if the singing of Alkonost serves to console the saints, and has a bewitching effect on a person, then the singing of Sirin kills. The nature of their songs is also different - the songs of Alkonost are imbued with light sadness, the songs...
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