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- 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."
– The Leveret
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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serendipity ----
whenever i see my sheep in a cluster in the fields - i react impulsively to get to them as that is how they behave in response to marauding dogs, they cluster.
this WEDNESDAY i arrived back from the office and the young sheep were in a cluster - i hurriedly got into my farm gear and ran to the spot THIS TIME as i approached the cluster of sheep I realised that
1 they were not looking outwards
2 that there was an empty space - perfect circle -of 10foot diameter in the middle of the cluster
3 young sheep can be nonchalant and they were unaware or ignored as i neared them
4 when i got to see what was attracting their focused attention - it was the young hare doing it ritual on the lush green carpet of grass
on this FRIDAY when i went to view the leveret blogspot - i quite surprisedly found the Leveret surrounded by rug/carpet of unique/distinct in my perception of persian/egyptian design
-i am a bit gobsmacked with the coincidence and i look to blue moon this coming friday for insight
i am gifted with 'leveret' on my laptop and 'leveret' on my fields - it could be said that i have a LEVERET that i have a ''leveret'' dimension ha ha ha -- wondering Shane
Shane,
Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience of serendipity! I think it's great that you live among fields and sheep and leverets. It sounds like a beautiful place. I'm glad today's photo spoke to you. It's my friend Phil in this particular photo -- though it's my carpet that he's sitting on!
well!
Phil and you are wellcome to the fields anytime if you can hack 1star accomodation
1- have any pointers for same gender preference in indigenous peoples
2- how many ''gay'' life long couples who would have had single digit number of former partners
3 ''It sounds like a beautiful place'' yes it is -- but it has many faces -- not so long ago here - '' a dead son was better that a gay son''
4 i got by with sacraficing a few teeth
5 i miss my brothers who have gone home early a little - i have learned to fight
great blog - because for me i love to admire beauty - i dont have to posess it and consume it
the best to you and Phil
Shane
in a spontaneous chat today with an old Lady (about 90) in the forests on the hills she mentioned '' Beauty's joy is to share her presence with all. Other worldliness can be see like a gentle glow in the eyes of her devotee''
so Theleveret is facilitating Beauty to feel joyful ....
Shane
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