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#animist

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cohan

So,I *took* the photos on #MonochromeMonday lol..I hadn't checked on #aspen #catkins for a couple of weeks- just emerging last time I looked; I knew the cool/snowy weather we had would keep them in suspended animation. It's been warmer for the last week though, a few days into the mid teens C/ even near 20C/68F, so I wondered if they'd matured. Nope! Farther along but still not fully extended/open.. soon though..
#nature #trees #spring #BorealForest#Alberta #Canada #animist #GoOutsideForMe

A black and white image of fuzzy poplar catkins on an overcast afternoon. There are several clusters of catkins at the tips of knobby twigs, and they are only partly emerged from their shiny sticky bud cases, looking silver white almost like pussywillows at this stage before they elongate. The background is muted blurred grey with several blurred dark twigs criss-crossing in various directions, giving an almost geometric pattern. One set of crossing twigs to the right looks like a stick thin figure dancing with one leg positioned with the foot on the ground, the other leg up at nearly right angles, the long arms mirroring this position with the torso nearly horizontal and dark head partly out of frame to the right. A spring forest spirit dancing in the trees and trying to hide from view among the twigs?
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cohan

🧵 1 Here we are, more or less halfway between Winter Solstice + Spring Equinox! (Thanks to @mirabilos I've recently learned more about the calculation of #CrossQuarter Days: it's not so straightforward!)
Anyway, for me a general idea of mid-way works- I'll make my natural observations over several days anyway, and if I have time/ energy for ritual, it will depend on work/weather!
Short video on YouTube #spectra link to follow
youtube.com/shorts/ktwTVim_udI
#metenis #imbolc #pagan #animist #Alberta

1-A bit of a mound rises from a snowy pasture- where the soil was piled when a cattle watering dugout was made long ago. It's a late winter afternoon, maybe an hour from sunset and the many little lumps and crests and ridges in the snow (made from cattle tracking around then wind blowing snow) on the mound have deep blue shadows on this side away from the sun. Behind the mound we can see a bit more of the snowy pasture then a line goes all the way across of low dark willows with here and there- mostly to the right- some smallish poplars sticking out above. We can't see how far this treed area goes exactly, but get a glimpse of another sliver of silvery snow much farther back where the ground rises a bit. Farther still are more shadowy trees and on the horizon, barely discernible, we see the foothills blue/hazy blending into the partly clouded sky (mountains behind invisible in cloud). A Line of modest fluffy clouds caps a slightly darker blue-grey with sunset highlights area above the mountains, and above those clouds the sky is faintly overcast pale grey with a hint of violet-coral!
2-Across an area of rather smooth snow broken by many small poplar suckers along with occasional other small woody things and the occasionalbit of dry grass or thistle, a loose row (a few metres wide) of youngish (maybe mid-size in diameter, at most, many skinnier) but tall follows a fenceline from left to right. Beyond we see more snowy ground and more distant low willows and trees.The soft barely golden white ball of sun shines between the trunks and branches from a dull blue sky with bits of cloud, a little less than halfway up the trees as it westers, casting long blue linear shadows from the trees on the snow in the foreground.
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cohan

I was privileged over a week or so to see this beautiful #owl ! It's not uncommon for me to see owl pellets or signs of them hunting on the snow (wing marks etc) but I don't often (not even every year) see the actual birds! This one I saw 3 times over a week or so, all the decent shots +vid from one of those times.
YouTube link here, Spectra to follow
youtube.com/shorts/HfGGM3w6UZ4
Strix nebulosa ssp nebulosa (American) Great Grey Owl #birds #nature #Alberta #BorealForest #BirdGoddess #animist

a classic looking owl with big round head and fluffy feathered body sits atop a dead small birch trunk, looking straight at the camera. There are some willow stems around, a small skinny spruce to left and light grey sky behind. It looks like black and white, nearly since the light was poor on an overcast winter afternoon.
The same owl in flight-a rather poor photo but we see the owl from the side and mostly underneath as it flies from right to left, wings fully outstretched in a glide. It is sort of speckled/striped- looking almost woven, with near/white parts, light to dark grey, some light brown bits and some near/black bits. It is flying in front of mixed woods of smallish poplars, birch, willows and one small spruce.
The owl has now re-perched, this time on a dead dry branch of a balsam poplar. Several trunks of these poplars- medium grey and deeply furrowed, with lighter dangly somewhat twisted twigs, mingle with dull green spruce. We just see a part- maybe second quarter from the top- of these trees, with the owl in mid frame. The owls body is facing away, but it has turned its head to look back at me. Its yellow eyes and beak stand out from the surrounding white-grey-brown and black feathers.
A closer view, though a bit more from underneath looking up, of the owl in the same new perch. We can appreciate the complex yet orderly pattern of the colours on its feathers. It is looking not quite toward the camera but sort of in this direction though over my head and beyond. We can see that its face, of finer grey feathers than the body, with unmarked light grey between beak and eyes, is outlined with black, and a darker line comes from the top of the head down to the beak so the face is rather divided in two. The overall effect is a very striking and intense looking face! The function of this wide flat elaborately feathered facial disk is to help direct sounds to its ears to enhance amazing hearing abilities.
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Wilson

Before I forget, tomorrow is the release day for my new album! It's also #BandcampFriday! Please have a listen. We made a really lovely CD edition.

"An improvising trio since 2023, Wilson Shook, Kevin Corcoran, and Aine Nakamura create a atmosphere of heightened concentration, restraint, and purposeful recontextualization of sounds, affects, and relationships with each other and with a particular moment in the world. There is an oblique lyricism, and a non-programmatic #ritual intensity to the work, which evokes #Butoh, #DeepListening, #Artaud's Theater of Cruelty, and a sort of #animist #ecomusicology. Procession, while an ultimately incomplete document of a practice that is multi-sensory, experiential, and site-specific, nevertheless presents a compelling point of entry into the trio's artistic world."

#ImprovisedMusic #ExperimentalMusic @experimentalmusic

Procession | Wilson Shook, Kevin Corcoran, Aine Nakamura | Other Ghosts

otherghosts.bandcamp.com/album

Other GhostsProcession, by Wilson Shook, Kevin Corcoran, Aine Nakamura6 track album
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cohan

I was heading back out into the bush to get my last load of firewood for the day, a few days back, just around sunset on a gloomy day. This little #ForestSpirit crossed my path, and I took a few minutes to follow it as it flew from tree to tree. I never got much of a view, and no good photos, but it was still fun to see. Brown Creeper Certhia americana #BirdPhotogaphy #nature #Alberta #BorealForest #CountryLiving #GetOutside #animist #BirdGoddess

a tiny bird perched facing upward on the scaly red-brown and grey trunk of a spruce tree. The bird is only visible because it is in profile, so it can be seen sticking out a bit from the trunk, and its underside is white. the back is grey-brown mottled and if seen straight on would be hard to distinguish from the bark. It is around sunset and overcast, so rather dim and only the bird and the trunk it is on are kind of in focus. The view is zoomed, from a handful of metres/yards away, we see a number of tree trunks from just above the ground to maybe 1/4 or less of the way up, and just a few bare branches. We can see dried fallen leaves on the ground, the stump of a moderate sized tree cut some time in the past, and a bit farther back part of a large fallen aspen with its grey-green branches and trunk. Farther still a hint of dull gold where there is dry grass in a clearing.
same photo (see first alt) but cropped to show just the bird sitting on the tree trunk. Resolution is very poor, but we can see the tiny bird has a rather long, slightly curved needle-like beak, perfect for hunting in the bark crevices for insects. We can't see its feet, but it has long clawed toes, which it splays to the sides to easily grip and move about on tree trunks (scaley spruce like this one surely post no difficulty to most birds to cling to!)
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Xenakis

Greetings.

Here's a little #introduction. I want to stay connected, but I'm getting sick of ads, algorithms, and other hazards of more conventional social media, so I'm trying out Mastodon.

I was born in the early 80s. I have lived in the US states of #Louisiana, #Georgia, and #Kentucky. I have a bachelor's degree in English.

I'm a #pagan, #polytheist, and #animist devoted primarily to a few Greek and Egyptian deities. I'm a #Dionysian. My practice includes daily #meditation, devotional activities to various deities and spirits, finding modern ways to celebrate ancient holidays, and ancestor work, among other things.

I also enjoy #drawing, #painting, #flowarts, #hiking, #reading, #writing, watching #movies, and #gaming in my spare time.

Some other interests include #animation, #anthropology, #buddhism, #divination, #folklore, #history, #linguistics, #literature, #music, #mythology, #psychology, #puppetry, #religion, and #theatre.

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Siin

This book is fascinating. I'm only about 60 pages in, so it's too early for an in-depth analysis, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how good the narrative quality and information overall is. It doesn't read in the least like a scientific thesis, but a story.

I'm not yet certain how to describe why these two things are connected in my mind, but I found (or rather, it found me) the most incredible gigantic scorpion yesterday evening. It's been living, apparently, in the decking by our outdoor bathtub where it has grown Amazon sized: close to four inches long as opposed to the usual half inch of the largest one's I've seen so far. I believe it's a striped bark scorpion, a neurotoxic creature that is definitely a risk. I've crushed small ones in the past that make their way to my patio, but I could not bring myself to claim any kind of dominance over this one. So long as it stays under the decking and comes out for water and to hunt, I'm happy coexisting. It feels like the physical manifestation of the scorpion I've been seeing in my visions, and I wonder what I am to be learning from them. They feel like centipedes, these liminal and deadly creatures, and this book is bringing up all kinds of thoughts pertaining to the nature of wisdom that my rigorously scientific friends (the few I have) scoff at me for mentioning but that people have understood before we taught them not to.

The cover of a book "The Cosmic Serpent" taglined "DNA and the Origins of Knowledge" by Jeremy Narby
An enormous striped bark scorpion in damp sand, approximately four inches long from tail to pincers, an almost translucent glow in the dark green color with a heavy brownish body
#Liminality#CosmicSerpent#Scorpion
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cohan

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 but I'm posting #December 21 so Blessed and Happy Solstice to all! This date is what all the mid-winter holy days/festivals are really about in the Northern Hemisphere - Sun has reached the maximum of her southward journey, and will begin the slow return. We celebrate the anticipated return of #light but also should take some time to reflect on the darkness: #sleep #blood #soil #death #regeneration #SeasonalRhythms #pagan #animist
Happy mid-summer to Southern friends!

looking across a snowy pasture in dusk light with dry grass and thistle stems showing through, with a wooden board wind fence not too far away, followed by more snowy fields, distant trees, and dimly seen snowy mountains on the horizon with a mostly cloudy sunset above. A little way above the mountains there are some gaps in the clouds, allowing the golden sunset glow to come through, and turning the clouds above from blue grey to purply with an orangey glow right above the hidden sun. The words Blessed Solstice! in an orange taken from the sunset cross the image.
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cohan

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 #LeafMother has left some colour from Autumn (months ago!) hanging bright against the #snow with a drop of frozen #rain and inscribed with cryptic insect prayers to the #GreatMother #Goddess! and Day 12 #Saule #Sun is nearly at the maximum of her turn to the south, yet her rays still brighten #Winter days, even if the warmth is mostly in our hearts! #Alberta #December #BorealForest #WinterPictures #CountryLiving #animist #Latvian

One leaf stem of a wild rose hangs down, with 3 leaflets clinging, in bright autumn colours of cranberry and pale coral. The end leaflet also has a drop of frozen water at the tip, and at that same end has squiggles left from insect activity, that look kind of like writing. Behind a blurred background of dusky snow, several upright stems behind the leaves, and one thorny rose stem visible in upper right.
View of the base of a large balsam poplar trunk with dark furrowed bark, nearly smooth snow immediately around it, dry leaves and twigs showing through the shallow snow farther away. It is in mature mixed woods-- a shady place but with trees not too close together, and not a lot of growth on the ground in many places. A couple of shafts of weak, golden, afternoon sun shine in from mid left, just reaching the trunk and the snow around it.
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