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 The Native American 'Maidenbird Welcome' by Destiny's Design 1999 has to the left an oval vignette, encircling a Native Maiden and a white bird. The vignette’s right border intertwines with the left thin loop of a calligraphed ‘Welcome’. The sitting Native Maiden rotates her visible upper body to the right, holding her bent arms upward. From her hands raised just above her head a white dove flies up. She looks up to her messenger, sending him away with her blessing and heart. She wears a wide suede dress with short sleeves; curled fringes fall from its rim. From her long dark hair descend three huge Hawk feathers that are joined in a plum of white down feathers fastened at her right temple. The vignette gets repeated to the left over te whole length of the page and all pages of 'Kihews Iskwe's Aeyrie', signed with 'Destiniy's Lady' underneath each occurence, and separated by three thin vertical lines. The 'Welcome' to the right of the Birdmaiden is set in a dark greenish script. Its 3-D illusion enhances by shadows of the letters, as if soft light shines on them from the left top. The vertically curved left and third bar of the capital 'W' and the full x-height verticals of the lowercases are thick. The second and fourth of the 'W' and the bowls, counters, and loops of the lowercases are thin. The broad left upward curved bar of the 'W' curls outward into a thin spiral, forming an open circular '6', intersecting the oval border of the vignette. The ‘W’s’ slender right bar ends in a drop above the ascender of the 'l'. The upper curl of the ‘c’ ends in a drop, and the ‘o’ shows a drop in the middle of its right slender bow. The lower curl of the final lowercase ‘e’ reaches high.

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Kihew Iskwew's Aeyrie 1)

My Esta 2) is still working on my Aeyrie.
Still, I have already something here for you.
Enjoy, and tell me how you like it.

Dance Me to Your Light
Meet Some of My Family
On Wings as Eagles and Angels
See Some of My Art Work
Hush! A Gift from My Genwar
Obituary

These are some of
my favorite links: 3)

Still functional in 2022

Donate Daily Free Food for the Poor

Alternatives ]as of 2015 and 2022:

Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary
Many Nations. One Family.
Alberta Native Friendship Centre
The Wolf Ceremony
Warriors of the Rainbow
and other Native American Prophecies
Whispers of an Innocent Angel

As of 2015 untraceable, out of use,
as of 2022 leading to 'Yahoo':

Journey with an Eagle
The Blessing
Kihew Iskwew liked receiving responses by e-mail: “Enjoy, and tell me how you like it”. Since she passed away on 27 December, 2021, you could consider mailing to “Genwar”, short for Gentle Warrior. - Mail Button from Destiny's Design 1999.  Back to Kihew Iskwew's Home Page. Home Button from Destiny's Design 1999.
Destiny's Design Logo 1999. Obsolete by 2015. An overal with a mulitcolored borders centers within a horizontal recktangle with a thin metalic frame. At the left in the oval is a colorful bouquet. Over it curl the kapital 'D's' of the dark pink words 'Destiny's Designs'.
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Notes

Welcome to some reminiscent and nostalgic web-feelings of the late nineties and the beginning of this millennium.

1) “Kihew Iskwew”, from the Native American language Cree, means “Eagle Women”. “Aeyrie” - usually spelled “Eyrie” or “Aerie” - refers to the nest of an Eagle or other bird of prey.

2) “Esta”, also from the Native American language Cree, means talon, the claw of a bird of prey, or the given name for a male; thus referring to her own hand or mine.

3) All hyperlinks but one - “Donate Daily Free Food for the Poor” - got out of use and their corresponding sites and pages disappeared. For some I found equivalents. Since commerce and else increasingly took over the World Wide Web and Internet from individual creativity and initiative, its appearance, behavior, functionality and use changed profoundly.

“Kihew Iskwew's Aeyrie - On Wings as Eagles and Angels - Native American Spirituality” I made in 2000. Barbara Milito-Smith, alias “Kihew Iskwew”, provided the texts and images by e-mail and I shaped the site to her taste as good as the interface for free web-sites at angelfire.com permitted. I knew the markup language ‘Runoff’ from the technical manuals that I had produced for the computer periphery industry in the eighties in Vienna. Now I came to know HTML, the Hyper Text Markup Language for the World Wide Web.

The layout of the website “Kihew Iskwew's Aeyrie” got ever more distorted since it hit cyber space 15 years ago, and in particular on mobile devices; probably for two reasons. Because of automatic rewriting of the code, like for advertisements, and because contemporary browsers seem less forgiving to loose html-coding, than for example Netscape once was.

Now I chose to offer “Kihew Iskwew's Aeyrie” within my own site to

  • preserve a bit of the feel of the web of the late nineties, content and layout wise.
  • allow the spiritual texts to be read undisturbed by ever more obtrusive advertisements.
  • finally render the texts in the font Sherwood that Kihew Iskwew preferred from the outset.
  • supply the pages legible also to mobile devices by use of up to date HTML5 and CSS3.
  • last but not least keep “Kihew Iskwew”, her “Aeyrie” and her valuable life’s lessons in grateful memory.

“Genwar”
Amsterdam, 27th October, 2015

PS:
On Friday 9, September 2022, the original first site is still online at Angelfire: Kihew Iskwew's Aeyrie. The original HTML-coding from 1999, 2000 appears 'enriched' by loads of java-script and the like. Amazingly, the original HTML-code is still there and is working fine in contemporary browsers. Fortunately, the former annoyingly flashing advertisement banners of gaming-sites, at the top and the bottom of each page, are gone. Angelfire replaced them by static banners, inviting to “build a free website of your own on Angelfire”.

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