Wane Wyrds

This season is mild I hear it is different elsewhere But here, where I am  The green bursts up in every spare inch between the cracks and over the fields The forest is dense The nearby lake shore obscured By it's blazing emerald foliage clinging vines of orange flower clutch at the fences In the fields along the roadside waves of yellow sunflowers and purple hyacinths dance with the bees and butterflies. The limbs of the oaks sag  leaf cloaks dragging them downward Underneath is a cool breeze  and the smell of wet earth Sitting below one wonders at how a tree must feel When the wind steals about it Gentle caresses of touch like the hands of a lover How one must ache for it On a windless day with the sun burning And the sudden showers of cool raindrops one could only describe  as ecstasy with a strong wind blowing.  (this worked is copyrighted 2013 Cena Bussey)

Hello again! I'm back with another post continuing the summary of Freyja's Cats, a thesis by Brenda Prehal exploring the image and myths of cats in Norse culture. In the first post I summarized some information from the paper which gave some examples of how cats were portrayed in Norse literature and the material record. This post will focus mainly on the cat in relation to the practice of Seidhr, the goddess Freyja, and the idea that the cat may have been somewhat symbolic of elite pagan power in Scandinavia. From now on my own thoughts and interjections will appear in bold, as opposed to paraphrasing of the original paper in plain text.  Animal-head post 174 from the Oseberg ship-burial The abundance of cat imagery and folklore in non-Eddic literary sources and the material record is contrasted by the near absence of cats within the Eddas. The author questions the reasons for this within a short discussion. The main idea here is that the cat (along with various other fe...