Beaver Falls in Clatskanie, Oregon (OC)[5464x3640] - Author: Akriax on Reddit
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Image description: A photo of a spiraea ‘bridal wreath’ bloom sitting on a palm. The flowers are white and the main bloom is heart shaped.
Jim Tierney’s illustration of Ymir for Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton’s retelling of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology.
Enchanted Valley, October 2021
Barn Owls in an Oak Tree, Suffolk, England
by Mike Rae
JOHNNY APPLESEED WAS A FUCKING SWEDENBORGIAN??? OF ALL THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL FIGURES TO BE WIZARDS I DID NOT EXPECT APPLESEED TO BE A WIZARD.
Oh my god. Okay there's probably a fair amount of mythologizing going on here,and normally I would consider this bullshit but knowing that Appleseed was a Swedenbourgian makes this significantly more likely to be not complete bullshit.
For those that don't know: Swedenbourgianism is a fringe form of Christian mysticism/magic that places central emphasis on compassion and ecology. They're all about pacifism, being vegetarian, and "tending to the garden of God" type stuff. If there was any form of Christianity that the native tribes of the American northeast would vibe with, it would be Swedenbourgianism.
Starlings are surprisingly beautiful!
“National Geographic called me and asked me to write the feminist facts about how The Lion King gets lion pride dynamics all wrong. I happily complied. Lions are matrilineal!!
When I contacted Craig Packer, one of the world’s leading lion researchers, to talk about this story he was IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. He Skyped me almost instantly from a camp in Kenya and said he’s been waiting for someone to ask him this question since the original film came out.
Anyway, if The Lion King were real, Nala would be the star, Sarabi would be holding her up saying everything the light touches is our kingdom, Simba would have left and never come back, and when Nala got old enough Sarabi would have carved out a territory for her to rule.”
UPDATE:
“Reasons men gave for lecturing me on lion pride social structure and telling me one of the world’s leading lion researchers is wrong (I am not kidding these are real): -Watched The Lion King DVD extras -Read a textbook 25 years ago -Has been to the zoo -Everyone just knows
If you ever wondered what it’s like to be a woman that communicates science, this is what it’s like. Any expertise you or your sources may have gained over decades of hard work are null and void because someone watched a DVD extra 25 years ago.”
Hey that last one is a Mood