The Leveret: April 2018

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Beauty and the Beard

See also the previous posts:
• Beauty and the Beard (2017)
• Beauty and the Beard (2013)
• Talking Scruff
• Going Floral
• The Art of Vilela Valentin
• Bel Homme – January 30, 2017
• Mon Bel Amie

Friday, April 20, 2018

Hare Décor

Image: The Leveret.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Portrait

Art: "Small Black & White Hare II" by Heidi Wickham.

See also: Portrait 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2011

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Hare Décor

Image: The Leveret.

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Easter Basket

See also the previous posts:
• Hare at Eastertide
• Easter Hare
• Symbol of Enlightenment
• Eostre: Goddess of New Life Beginnings
• The Goddess Ostara
• Remembering Eostre
• Celebrating Eostre

Related Off-site Link:
The Pagan Roots of Easter – Heather McDougall (The Guardian, April 3, 2010).

Image: Artist unknown.

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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