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Great Gray Owl

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on March 10, 2017 by Hearth Moon RisingMarch 10, 2017

The big excitement this week has been the appearance of a Great Gray Owl, a boreal owl rarely seen in the United States. As the name implies, this is a very large owl, bigger even than the Great Horned. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Adirondacks, Animals, Mesopotamia | Tagged great gray owl, owls

Frigga: A short sketch

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on February 24, 2017 by Hearth Moon RisingFebruary 24, 2017

Then said Gangleri: “Which are the Asynjur?” Harr said: “Frigg is the foremost: she has that estate which is called Fensalir, and it is most glorious.” — The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson, translated Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur. Deities tend to become … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Germanic | Tagged birch, birch tree, Frigg, Frigga, heron, white birch

Feline Fascism

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on February 3, 2017 by Hearth Moon RisingFebruary 3, 2017

It’s been a frustrating week in foreign language study. For some reason, Samhain has been on patrol a bit more than usual, enforcing the household English-only policy. This policy was instituted by the cat. She yowls whenever I review my … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Samhain

A Hare at Heart Lake

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on December 23, 2016 by Hearth Moon RisingDecember 23, 2016

So again I am musing, as I do every winter, about the plethora of Snowshoe Hare tracks with no Hares in sight. Yet during this outing I did spy a Great Horned Owl gliding between the branches. Snowshoe Hares are … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Yule | Tagged heart lake, snowshoe hare

No articles, no photo essays, no poems today

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on December 9, 2016 by Hearth Moon RisingDecember 9, 2016

No reviews either. I’m getting ready to submit the manuscript for my next book so I’m a bit distracted from blogs and blogging. I’ll let my cat Samhain handle the post this week. This picture was taken right after she … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Samhain

The Antler Wagon

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on December 2, 2016 by Hearth Moon RisingDecember 2, 2016

I’ve written a lot about deer, especially reindeer, this year. Here is a poem about the Saami reindeer sun goddess Beiwe. She rides across heaven in antler wagon.She rides across heaven in antler wagon.Holding her daughter, she defines the day.Holding … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Yule | Tagged reindeer, sun

Elen of the Ways

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on September 23, 2016 by Hearth Moon RisingSeptember 23, 2016

Again from my forthcoming book on animal divination: An increasingly popular conception of the Deer Goddess goes by the name of Elen or Elen of the Ways. Knowledge about this goddess was disseminated through the research of Caroline Wise(1) on … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals | Tagged deer, Elen, Elen of the Ways, reindeer

Reindeer and the World Tree

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on September 16, 2016 by Hearth Moon RisingSeptember 16, 2016

  More from my forthcoming book on animal divination: The stag of Artemis being in fact a reindeer raises questions about the four stags who nibble on the branches of the Germanic world tree, Yggdrasil. This is the tree that … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Germanic | Tagged deer, Yggdrasil

Artemis and the Reindeer Doe

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on September 9, 2016 by Hearth Moon RisingSeptember 9, 2016

  Here is another short excerpt from my forthcoming book about animal divination: In antiquity the deer familiar of Artemis was a reindeer, which some confuse with a stag. Both horned and hornless does are depicted driving the goddess’s chariot. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals | Tagged Artemis, deer, Herakles

The Deer Shifters: Another deer article from the past

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on September 2, 2016 by Hearth Moon RisingSeptember 2, 2016

Several years ago a North Country man shot and killed a member of his hunting party, the girlfriend of his son. This is an all too frequent tragedy, not worth a mention anywhere but the local news. The man said … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals | Tagged deer

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