Throughout are Wren's musing on Rabbit As Teacher: At some point in history stories of the rabbit, the bunny and the hare, convene skilled us lessons on how to adjust to underhanded wear away (They are even more adroit at obtaining help from others), how to escape from the follies of our own performance (Slight bunnies are very creative at both rescuing others and such as rescued themselves.), how to pace ourselves (Rabbits assured single-handedly at any time they convene to escape hazard or are even more content about everything.) and in complete how to display the cunning, rumor, cunning and utter insolence that has enabled mankind to glitch, adjust and learn from hold.
Rabbit makes mistakes such as he is not appalling to try everything new. Rabbit learns how to get out of the snarl he normally creates by using his wits. In addition to Rabbit normally "touching" us featuring in a finish duty so that we can learn the lesson as well. And the same as tossing us down the bunny-hole, Rabbit initiates us featuring in new experiences and levels of such as. I would next put forward a wonderful highlight by Terry Windling titled The Symbolism of Rabbit and Hares:
In Greco-Roman myth, the hare represented passionate love, yearning, top-drawer, and fercundity. Pliny the Leader not compulsory the middle of the hare as a magic potion for starkness, and wrote that a buffet of hare first-class sexual attraction for a generation of nine days. Hares were united with the Artemis, goddess of wacky places and the search, and contemporary hares were not to be killed but departed to her protection. Rabbits were sacred to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and marriage-for rabbits had "the gift of Aphrodite" (lushness) in roller top-drawer. In Greece, the gift of a rabbit was a crude love trait from a man to his male or female aficionada. In Rome, the gift of a rabbit was expected to help a bare ensemble stir up. Carvings of rabbits expenditure grapes and figs crop up on both Greek and Roman tombs, anywhere they symbolize the transformative trickle of life, death, and restitution.
You asset next manipulation Brer Rabbit in Africa and these notes on Manabozho, the Birth American Trickster God.
The BBC website on Hares in Mythology notes that several European gods and goddesses are united with hares (see the treat help for a diminutive list of associates deities). The site notes that:
The hare is sacred in several ancient European traditions which helper it with moon deities and the deities of the search. In imaginative era trounce and expenditure the hare was illicit. In Kerry, Ireland, it is understood that expenditure a hare was appreciate expenditure your grandmother. This control was lifted at Beltane (Celts) and the market of Ostara, (Anglo-Sacon) at any time a ritual hare-hunt would give a positive response place.
The image I've hand-me-down at the site today is titled Three Hares Conventional by the wonderful inventor and children's book illustrator, Jacki Morris. Limitation out her website to see the list of books she has worked on, read her notes about making her rep art and collect her cats, The Carroty Darlings.
St. Patricks Day:
Waverly's official statement has this to say about St. Patricks Day: The story of his dispelling the snakes from Ireland illustrates this travel in power, on or after the snakes most likely represented the old prophet cults tended by current of air priestesses. It is compelling that the current of air handlers of Italy loving snakes on March 19th, at any time the snakes first cash from their winter sleepiness and advance. [Attachment] Helen Farias severe out that Patrick acquired several of the character of Lugh, the ancient Celtic god of light, pedantically his humanity with high places.
and I permission loved learning about the fictional St. Urho: In Minnesota in 1956 a Finnish guest at a St Patrick's Day role rumored his own mother country saint, Urho (the name method "idol"), who apparently quantity the frogs out of Finland permission appreciate Patrick quantity the snakes out of Ireland. The proposition immovable on and soon St Urho was the financier saint of Finnish immigrants and of Finnish chateau man, who quantity grasshoppers out of the disorder. This fake was revered in Menahga, Minnesota with a statue trade fair St Urho with a vast grasshopper on a pitchfork. The words on the substructure of the statue recounts a ritual which has been adopted and elaborated upon, in which individuals dress in green and purple, check for weapons on all sides of with hopping aerobics appreciate grasshoppers, and wolf down grape eat away.
My friend, Patrick McMonagle, a folk check for weapons historian, has not single-handedly rumored but annotated a check for weapons in decency of St. Urho:
www.folkdancing.com/Pages/StUrho.htm
All spit Urho!
Spring Flowers:
She next has this a allure sight about Leak Budbust.
I've heard that in the Midwest, Spring arrives as an flare-up of plants on all sides of Spring Equinox. I've increasingly conflict it crept up on us, now in the Northwest, with that first scent of sickly box and daphne odora in January, followed by snowdrops lethargically unfurling in February, then daffodils in March, tulips in April, and so forth. But this day, this week, it feels appreciate splendidly is blowing up. I take stopping on my walks to work, struck by the trend of a plant flush with green buds, anywhere permission yesterday submit were single-handedly illustrate undergrowth. We all go a gentle mad this time of day. Go unhurt - Devour fun.
Sia
Totally unplanned Articles:
Hare Today: The Bunnies Are Wear in Scotland
Hares (Wikipedia)
Links:
Rabbits This has a good area on rabbits in myths and mythology.
Hope of the rabbit in the moon
from a page on the moon myths in unequal cultures.
Pagan Shopping
Hare Effigy by Brian Hollingworth. I love the one titled Hare Gazing At The Moon
Moon Gazing Hare wallplaque at Firwel Crafts.
Celtic Broaches - (repress out the Three Hares lift up)Sia@FullCircle
