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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:59:42 +0200
MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=response Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT quite probably the cave drawings have to do with calling the spirit of the animal to be hunted, but I have no direct quotes from any cave men. Dvora Shurman following stories around the world ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Simms" To: "J. Crouse" Cc: "Storytell" Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:16 AM Subject: Re: An Ocean Of Stories > Among the Inuit it is customary that while the man hunts for seals,, the > women dream in trance > below the smoke hole. they are calling the soul of the whale to surrender > itself to the hunt. if > the soul of the whale does not appear, there is no success on the hunt. > Laura > > J. Crouse wrote: > >>Thank you Manya, Tim, Laura and Janet for your contributions to such an >>interesting thread. >> >> >> >>Manya wrote: >> >> >>I asked a storyteller from Iran whether he knew this story and he said >>that >>he had never heard it, but there is this custom on the Indian ocean >>coastal >>area: the women sing to the sea to keep it calm so their men who are >>sailing >>will be safe. we have the same custom on the Greek islands. >> >> >>Wow! Fascinating, I didn't know this. It makes me wonder what other >>cultures >>have this custom. Is there a specific time of day that the singing is >>done? >>Who does it,etc.? >> >> >>Janet Dowling wrote: >> >> >>So maybe this is why J K Rowling so named Dumbledore- which we all know is >>an old form of Bee >> >> >>I love the Harry Potter books. However, I never made this connection. So >>it >>prompted me to do a Google search which lead me on a fascinating journey >>through the web following up on a few things mentioned in everyone's >>contributions. >> >>I've provided the links below in case you care to take the journey. >> >> >> >>Meaning of Dumbledore: >> >> >>http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-dum1.htm >> >> >> >>Telling the Bees: >> >> >>Buried deep in folklore is the belief that when one passes away, >>particularly if that person was the family beekeeper, it was important to >>go >>down to the hives and 'tell the bees'. Somehow there was something >>meaningful, if mystical, about the ending of one life, and the bee's work >>of >>pollinating growing things, thus bringing new life into being." >> >>http://www.vtonly.com/lorenov0.htm >> >> >> >>Bee Folklore >> >>Many famous poets and writers such as Virgil, Sophocles, and Plato were >>associated with the bee. A common story was that infants whose lips were >>touched by bees would become great speakers, poets, storytellers, and >>philosophers. Thus, bees were often called "birds of the muses". >>http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/beeclass/facts.html >> >> >>Bees have often been regarded as wise and even holy insects, having >>foreknowledge as well as knowledge of many secret matters. In antiquity >>they >>were sometimes divine messengers, and their constant humming was believed >>to >>be a hymn of praise. >> >> >>http://www.doghause.com/superstitions.asp >> >> >>"A drop of honey will not sweeten the ocean." >> >> >>http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf13.html >> >> >> >>It makes me want to reread Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees with >>fresh eyes. >> >>I've heard and read stories in the news which relate how many animals knew >>the tsunami was approaching and took measures not to be in its path. >> >> I wonder what the bees knew? >> >> >>That's the buzz on how I've spent the past hour. >> >>Thanks again for taking the time to sweeten my world with your shared >>collective wisdom! >> >> >>Peace, >> >>Jane Crouse >>Universal Storyteller >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||