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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."
– 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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2 comments:
Hi
Great diverse and imaginative offering by you - DeChardin would be , i feel , acclaim your contribution to the Bios-sphere he wrote about so long ago
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ah it great to live in society where the citizen has some anonymity - the freedom to be is much greater,
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we are having referendum on same sex marriage
it is only when you lift up the stones that you see what was under them and was beside you unknowingly
1 the ''con job'' by the political establishment offering this token freedom as something of substance - my opinion -
2 the symbiotic relationship between the Church and ''The Gay Culture'' - side of the same coin suppress sexual expression - sexual expression in wild abandon
3 the Church that was persecuted by the Roman Empire became the Greatest persecutor of the Cathars
4 the intolerance in the debate by the LGTB side is so similar to the Catholic church and the Cathars the intolerance (virulent buck cat) is not only to the traditionalists of NO disposition BUT also to a new more gentler same gender expression -
5 if two people commit in their hearts to each other - why see Marriage, a church product as so important - i suggest looking outside when their lost key is inside
much work to be done in this space - i opinion
No body answers me but i will ask anyway - does anyone have websites or other web info on reliable stats on US gay culture -- is it evolving or is it the same as it was in 481 bc at the battle of thermopylae.
Regards and best wishes Shane
Hi Leveret
It was brave of you to share your identity
and pleasant to observe the beautiful expression
of masculinity that you are
your image echoes the last 2 lines of wb yeats
poem verse 8 '' among school children''
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
Cheers Shane
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