Last night i had a dream about rabbits....
Looking for good books I stumbled upon a free book "The Hare with amber eyes" also amber tigers eye brown eyes etccccccc from Ericheywood@blogspot.com.... these are parts of the intro, I think in my dream the Hares were murdered ):
Netsuke (Japanese:
根付 – usually pronounced
NET-suh-key or sometimes NET-skee) are small
carved sculptures which originated in seventeenthcentury
Japan, as an ornamental yet practical toggle
for the Japanese kimono robe. Kimonos, by tradition,
had no pockets, and so, in order to carry around their
belongings, the wearers hung pouches or boxes from the
kimono sash, suspended by a cord held fast by a carved
toggle a netsuke.
the hare with amber eyes
research leads to rabbit in the moon... MOMA being the most prominent...
India
Bhudda was a hare who traveled as a beggar... the reward was to be transformed to the rabbit in the moon.
Egypt
Hares were closely associated with the moon, when waxing and waning moving from feminine to female, androgynous.
"Unut (or Wenet), while the male is most likely a representation of Osiris (also called Wepuat or Un-nefer), who was sacrificed to the Nile annually in the form of a hare
Greco-Roman
the hare represented romantic love, lust, abundance, and fercundity.
| Noun |
1. |
fecundity - the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
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Pliny the Elder recommended the meat of the hare as a cure for sterility, and wrote that a meal of hare enhanced sexual attraction for a period of nine days. Hares were associated with the Artemis, goddess of wild places and the hunt, and newborn hares were not to be killed but left to her protection. Rabbits were sacred to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and marriage—for rabbits had “the gift of Aphrodite” (fertility) in great abundance. In Greece, the gift of a rabbit was a common love token from a man to his male or female lover. In Rome, the gift of a rabbit was intended to help a barren wife conceive. Carvings of rabbits eating grapes and figs appear on both Greek and Roman tombs, where they symbolize the transformative cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrRabbits.html
Teutonic myth:
| Adj. |
1. |
Teutonic - of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their
languages; "Teutonic peoples such as Germans and Scandinavians and British";
"Germanic mythology"
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Freyja, the headstrong Norse goddess of love, sensuality, and women’s mysteries, was also served by hare attendants
She traveled with a sacred hare and boar in a
chariot drawn by cats.
Kaltes, the shape–shifting moon goddess of western
Siberia, liked to roam the hills in the form of a hare, and was sometimes pictured in human shape wearing a headdress with hare’s ears. Ostara, the goddess of the moon, fertility, and spring in
Anglo–Saxon myth, was often depicted with a hare’s head or ears, and with a
white hare standing in attendance. This magical white hare laid brightly colored eggs which were given out to children during spring fertility festivals — an ancient tradition that survives in the form of the Easter Bunny today
Celtic
Eostre, the Celtic version of Ostara, was a goddess also associated with the
moon, and with mythic stories of death, redemption, and resurrection during the turning of winter to spring. Eostre, too, was a shape–shifter, taking the shape of a hare at each full moon;
all hares were sacred to her, and acted as her messengers. Cesaer recorded that rabbits and hares were
taboo foods to the Celtic tribes. In Ireland, it was said that eating a hare was like eating one’s own grandmother — perhaps due to the sacred connection between hares and
various goddesses, warrior queens, and female faeries, or else due to the belief that old "wise women" could shape–shift into hares by moonlight. shamanic practices by studying the patterns of their tracks, the rituals of their mating dances, and mystic signs within their entrails. It was believed that rabbits burrowed underground in order to better commune with the spirit world, and that they could carry messages from the living to the dead and from humankind to the faeries.
