The Shadow of the Hare Excellent documentary by David Attenborough. https://youtube/watch?v=vhdS-BBizaY The hare has always been a creature of myth and mystery. It’s an animal whose natural history and mythology are intertwined. It is said that a field with two hares in it during the day will have ten times that number at night. They appear as if from nowhere, and disappear with the rising sun. They prefer the cover of darkness. Winter’s long nights hide most of their activities. The hare is at the heart of the British countryside, a symbol of a wildness that no longer exists. The starer with wild eyes. The mad march hare, boxing and chasing! After dark, hares appear in the fields as if from nowhere. So they’ve become symbols of the night. Wherever in the world hare’s occur, they’ve been linked with the moon. Buddhists don’t see a man in the moon, they see the shadow of the hare. And as the moon waxes and wanes, it seems to appear and disappear like the hares in the fields. Cycles of change that came to symbolise the great cycles of death and rebirth. Under cover, they are much more relaxed about life. Some hares will spend their entire lives in woodland. In today’s harvest, there’s no place for the hare or the corn spirit …. To ancient Britons, hunting the sacred hare was taboo. A dimly remembered association with the goddess. It’s a symbolism that reaches forward to the present. Unnoticed, the hare still runs through our lives.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:19:58 +0000
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