The Leveret: September 2016

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Welcoming the Autumn Equinox

Image: Wendy Andrew (from her book Luna Moon Hare: A Magical Journey with the Goddess.

See also the previous posts: Autumn Hare (2008) | Autumn Hare (2013) | Autumn Hare II | Autumn Hare III | Song in Autumn | Autumn Beauty

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Nyle

Images: Nyle DiMarco (photographers unknown).

Related Off-site Links:
Model Nyle DiMarco Talks Being Deaf & LGBTQ – Edge Media Network (September 13, 2016).
Nyle DiMarco Stars in ASL Ad for Hillary Clinton: "The Voice of Your Vote is the Greatest Voice We Have" – Andy Towle (Towleroad, September 20, 2016).

See also the previous posts: Philip | Charlie | Sukdeep | Rafael | Mon Bel Ami

Monday, September 12, 2016

Garden Hare

See also the previous posts:
• Garden Hare (2009)
• Catholic Tastes
• Resting Hare

Image: The Leveret.

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"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

“Hares” by Carry Akroyd