Some of the people who sell items made with wild-animal parts know the law, and some do not, based on what I have seen at festivals and on websites. So here is a reminder. Possession of raptor parts in the United States is federally regulated, and possession of eagle feathers or parts are highly regulated. [...]
. . . to borrow a phrase from another blogger. This summer has been a tough one, trying to keep the garden alive, always watching for forest fires — fighting a couple of small ones with the local volunteer fire department. The hummingbirds have been working the feeder hard for weeks — broad-tails and black-chinned, [...]
• At Pagans for Archaeology, Yewtree makes the argument (started by Graham Harvey, as I understand) against using the term “Neopagan.” • Lupa at No Unsacred Place on greeting the land in a new place. • At The Alchemist’s Garden, can your spirit helper be a machine? • Finally, at This Lively Earth, some thoughts [...]
That was the title of a post that I wrote yesterday evening on my other blog. I wish that I could think of some cool animistic perspective to take, but cannot. When you are trying to save one critter, you kill others. I think that is called “being in the world.”
• I like animal skulls—I have a wall of them. At Crooked & Hidden Bones, read about the revival of a technique for “reddening the bones.” Talk about going back to very old ways of treating special or sacred bones. This is what the family did with your great x 150 grandfather. • Here is [...]
I have new blog posts in the works, but I had to take off Tuesday and go fishing in the Arkansas River above Cañon City, where these Canada geese were parading up and down the bank, the parents seeming to ponder whether the goslings could handle the current yet. (Of course they could—in the slacker [...]
A biologist and consultant to national parks is telling wolf-cultists in Canada not to howl at their four-legged gurus. Alberta carnivore expert Cam McTavish says it is animal harassment. “When we have commercial groups or individuals or even researchers that are randomly calling wolf howls, I feel it is unwarranted,” he says. “In my opinion, [...]
• “Hard versus Soft Polytheism is a False Dichotomy.” • A recently discovered statue described as the god Odin and welcomed by some reconstructionist Norse Pagans, is–by Viking Period artistic conventions–either a woman or the goddess Freya, says a Swedish archaeologist. • The Necronomicon: “It’s like the Bible but different” (YouTube video). Via Plutonica.net. • [...]
Yesterday M. pointed out to me a small AP story in Sunday’s Denver Post that I had overlooked: the death of Elizabeth Clare Prophet, head of the Church Universal and Triumphant, one of the chief motivators of the “cults scare” of the 1970s-1980s. (“Suffered from dementia for years” — there may be some cynical chuckles [...]
A few years ago, when I was on the board of a local environmental-education group, I helped organize a couple of presentations by the staff of Mission: Wolf, a sanctuary located one county south of me. As part of their mission, “Socialized ambassador wolves travel nationally, offering public education while stimulating people to care about [...]
