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The wheel of the year: Lammas, Lughnasadh
Aug. 3rd, 2015 08:20 am
First harvest day arrives with The God effigy of our yard looking placidly out of his garland of Virginia Creeper.
Later the sun comes out and is greeted by his many worshippers.
First harvest day arrives with The God effigy of our yard looking placidly out of his garland of Virginia Creeper.
Later the sun comes out and is greeted by his many worshippers.
February 2 at Cutler Park
Feb. 3rd, 2014 07:01 pm
I'd like to mark all the corners of the year with visits to places that fill me with the awe of nature. It might not always be possible, and honestly I wasn't even thinking of the date when I decided to bring Charlie to Cutler Park--it was just warm.
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Pagan / Earth spirituality question
Apr. 28th, 2013 05:26 pmI know the various names for the days in between the equinoxes and solstices, but are there names for the half-seasons that occur within? Is there, for example, a different name for the part of spring that begins March 21st (or thereabouts) and comes to an end in a couple days to distinguish it from the time period that begins on the First of May and culminates with the Summer Solstice? I assume that there are already names in place, and I won't have to continue the process bubbling in my brain right now to come up with names for them.
Thanks in advance, Blessed Be, Do what thou wilt, I love you.
Thanks in advance, Blessed Be, Do what thou wilt, I love you.
100 More Species #76: Eastern Milk Snake
Mar. 16th, 2013 02:01 pm
Eastern milk snake Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum
It seems calculated to infuriate me, that on the day before a holiday about a mythical purging of snakes (a symbol for the forced conversion of pagans to Christianity), I should find a dead snake in my yard, killed by a predator that couldn't be bothered to eat it. Eastern milk snakes are purportedly quite common in our area, and yet I've personally only encountered one live one, and this dead one. I took care of a couple captive specimens at Drumlin Farm, fairly calm educational animals that eventually died of gout.
Eastern milk snakes are constrictor snakes that prey on mice and other small animals, including other snakes. Sometimes their orange and brown pattern causes the over-cautious to mistake them for copperheads--a venomous species (which enjoys protected status, so don't go chopping them up with your shovel you big bully). Milk snakes are so-called because they were frequently noticed in dairy barns. Hopefully no one actually believed the ludicrous idea they were feeding on milk, since it should be clear that they were feeding on mice in the barns.
3:00 snapshot #881
Jan. 3rd, 2012 07:53 pm
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In art school, I was taught that some 40,000 or so years ago, there was matriarchal society (or societies) across much of Europe, if not the whole of the peopled world. (I should stress that I was not taught this in the context of a history or anthropology course.) This society, peaceful and artistic, produced artifacts like the "goddess of Willendorf." Many people I was close with embraced the notion of this society as fact, and moreover, as a model of what we--should we choose to discard the patriarchy--should aspire for our own culture.
Alas, there is a paucity of facts to back up the existence of this great matriarchy, and a great deal of wishful thinking. My bs detector wasn't as sensitive back then, but I did sometimes wonder how the fact of this unknown society had come to be so obscure. Shouldn't I have learned about it in, well, a history class? I should have, if there was any evidence that it ever existed, or any actual scholarly research done backing it up. For more than a decade I've let the possibility that it existed simmer on the back burner of my mind--it's a good story, at least.
Today's Straight Dope describes the idea, what's right with it, and what's wrong with it. Always good to hear from Uncle Cecil.
Alas, there is a paucity of facts to back up the existence of this great matriarchy, and a great deal of wishful thinking. My bs detector wasn't as sensitive back then, but I did sometimes wonder how the fact of this unknown society had come to be so obscure. Shouldn't I have learned about it in, well, a history class? I should have, if there was any evidence that it ever existed, or any actual scholarly research done backing it up. For more than a decade I've let the possibility that it existed simmer on the back burner of my mind--it's a good story, at least.
Today's Straight Dope describes the idea, what's right with it, and what's wrong with it. Always good to hear from Uncle Cecil.
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Apr. 28th, 2005 08:49 amMy workplace (a wildlife sanctuary with a working farm on it, open to the public) is having a Mayfair this Sunday. We're having a May pole with singing and dancing and such. Most of our visitors are families with little kids.
I just caught wind that there's some discussion in the Education Staff about the history of the Maypole. The phrase I heard was "are we going to have children singing about sex?"
It's quite hilarious to me. Since I'm not at all involved in the planning, it will all be a wonderful surprise to me what happens.
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I just caught wind that there's some discussion in the Education Staff about the history of the Maypole. The phrase I heard was "are we going to have children singing about sex?"
It's quite hilarious to me. Since I'm not at all involved in the planning, it will all be a wonderful surprise to me what happens.
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