Image: "Blue Hare" by Edward Foster.
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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."
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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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4 comments:
hi leveret
just interacted with two hares in the last hour on the land
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i observe tatoos on some of your last posts
possibly you are already familar with -James Kern
and Guy Aitchinson
and of course --
alexgrey.com
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors"
best wishes shane
hi again
my two have friens have called by my front door at 7,15am - stayed unusually long time this morning
- if you are ever in ireland i invite you to interact with the hare folk
have a good day
admire your creative endeavours
shane
Hi Shane,
Thanks for your messages and the links to the websites of the tattoo artists James Kern, Guy Aitchinson and Alex Grey.
If you ever get the chance to photograph the hare folk that visit you, I'd be more than happy to share your photos at The Leveret!
yes of course
i have a Canon .. cant recall the specs but it is good one -- i have not the patience to take the time to learn how to use it
while i write this i realise/become aware that i have much ''hare'' qualities
jumpimg - running , racing wheather on foot or car
anyway you have given me a target
lets see what happens
for some reason - this year they are in the fields near the house
we have woeful weather here in southwest ireland
google - ballybunionsurfschool and killarney national park
how is the weather with ye
regards shane
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