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- The Leveret
- Celebrating the male body, the gay soul, and the symbol and image of the hare in folklore and art.
"Like a hare, springing erect and bounding exuberantly across a dew-kissed field, the beauty and energy of the aroused male embodies the burgeoning life force often associated with spring. After all, the hare is symbolic of natural phenomena that connote actions of the aroused male: the rising sun, the coming spring. In folklore, art and dreams, hares herald great bursts of energy and creativity. They are often thought to be touched by divine madness, by a spirit of anarchy that overturns dogmatic tradition and restrictions. They are tricksters, offering us new ways of seeing and being in the world. They are emblems of the integration of body and soul."
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Body and Soul
"In many mythic traditions, [hares] were archetypal symbols of femininity, associated with the lunar cycle, fertility, longevity, and rebirth. But if we dig a little deeper into their stories we find that they are also contradictory, paradoxical creatures: symbols of both cleverness and foolishness, of femininity and androgyny, of cowardice and courage, of rampant sexuality and virginal purity. In some lands, Hare is the messenger of the Great Goddess, moving by moonlight between the human world and the realm of the gods; in other lands he is a god himself, wily deceiver and sacred world creator rolled into one."
– Terri Windling
The Symbolism of Rabbits and Hares
"The [medieval] bestiarists [those who named and attributed human characteristics to animals] deemed the hare’s sex to be ambiguous, and its mode of reproduction strange. They included the hare in a group of several beasts that they asserted had been declared unclean in the Mosaic law because of their alleged sexual deviance . . . Moses Azikri (1533-1600) wrote that one who is involved in homosexual relations is reincarnated as a hare."
– Marc Michael Epstein
Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature
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2 comments:
just a hunch that i could forward you this
https://www.google.com/search?q=tutankhamun&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5SAMUNu3Jeqi4gT05ejiCg&sqi=2&ved=0CGAQsAQ&biw=1360&bih=643
shane
one of the 7 founding fathers of this republic (1916) always had his photo taken = mirroe image to this photo -- he was a mystic and also had was of same gender preference
you do know how to press Buttons
Hi leveret
the content of your blog just causes me to surmise that the magical unknowable forces of fate and destiny are with me at this time - only hindsight can give a partial understanding to this unfoldment if one stays in humility, i feel
as a gemini/taurus INFJ i may come across as impulsive and sporadic - and if you are an INFP like my cousin my communication style will irritate you . so i will turn down my instant response and enquiries
my personality style is quite similar to Hare like behaviour
have a great week and the beauty , grace and insight of your blog has woven unique patterns in my evolution at these times thanks for you (buioch Duit) Shane
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