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Arduina: Celtic mytholigy. She is wildlife, the primitive life, hunting and the luna godness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduinna

Gargantua: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargantua


Some pics and stuff later. Anybody has a good link with info about Homme du feu?

crazyankan wrote: Arduina: Celtic mytholigy. She is wildlife, the primitive life, hunting and the luna godness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduinna

Now I am entirely lost. There is an Alduína in Portuguese lore. I cannot say if it is associated to the Celtic mythology:

I have translated the text below from a Portuguese site:

[http://nome.acores.net/blogger/view.php?id=15048]
Alduína, says the legend, was a witch who terrified the populations because she was of those who used to fly on a broom and had a terrible oral hygiene. Four hundred years ago, all of the boys and girls were afraid of Alduína! And the parents, to calm them, made a party for the November 1 in which the kids could go from door to door, dressed like Alduína, in search of carameled acorns. When knocking on the door, they would say:
"Trincó dente!", that it was as if they wanted to say: Oh, aunt, give us some carameled acorns!
And our great friends (and old allies) English, during the times in that they rendered us the beautiful work of helping us to reject our other great French friends, took the tradition of the Party of Alduína. Not satisfied in taking our silver and the gold from the altars and the houses, our friends and English allies, as payment for the help against the Napoleonic armies, also robbed the Party of Alduína!
After two centuries, the country forgot about Alduína. English took the tradition of Alduína to the United States of America, where it was diffused with the spurious name of Halloween. Today, mistakenly, the Halloween is taken as an American party, and thus our children are supposed to say, open mouths and decayed teeth, but in an impeccable accent of British Council, a beautiful "Trick or treat!"
Wrong! Formerly we would say "Trincó dentes! ".
It is time to make an ancient tradition of our country reborn!

It is difficult to say if the monster is Alduína/Hallowen or the Celtic one, although it seems to me that the Celtic is much scarier. Anyway, I will check.


About Homme-du-Feu:
According to Indicible, in this forum, he is a Jules Verne's character.

seaching exactly i found topic of Indicible here.

Book which he was refering is here.

and here is quote from translation..

"Indeed, Mr. Starr, you are too young, in spite of
your five-and-fifty years, to have seen that. But I,
ten years older, often saw the last 'monk' working in the mine.
He was called so because he wore a long robe like a monk.
His proper name was the 'fireman.' At that time there was
no other means of destroying the bad gas but by dispersing
it in little explosions, before its buoyancy had collected
it in too great quantities in the heights of the galleries.
The monk, as we called him, with his face masked, his head muffled up,
all his body tightly wrapped in a thick felt cloak, crawled along
the ground. He could breathe down there, when the air was pure;
and with his right hand he waved above his head a blazing torch.
When the firedamp had accumulated in the air, so as to form
a detonating mixture, the explosion occurred without being fatal,
and, by often renewing this operation, catastrophes were prevented.
Sometimes the 'monk' was injured or killed in his work,
then another took his place. This was done in all mines until
the Davy lamp was universally adopted. But I knew the plan,
and by its means I discovered the presence of firedamp
and consequently that of a new seam of coal in the Dochart pit."

I made a colored version of Homme.

It's not the final version, still some things left to do.