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All father

Hugin and Munin fly each day over the spacious earth, I fear for Hugin that he may not come back, yet more anxious am I for Munin.

Odin’s two ravens represented thought and memory. He sent them out every morning flying throughout the world and anxiously look out for there return at nightfall. At his feet, where the wolves Geri and Freki - animals sacred to himself and to all who met them.

Odin, Wotan or Woden was the highest and holiest god of the northern races. The all pervading spirit of the universe, the personification of Air, the god of universal wisdom and victory, and it was from him that all other gods were said to descend.

He was pseudonymed the Allfather because he occupied the highest seat in Asgard. Hlidskialf was his watchtower from which he overlooked the whole world. He carried the infallible spear Gungnir, which was so sacred that an oath sworn on its point could never be broken.

Odin was worshipped in numerous temples, but especially in the great fane at Uppsala, where the most solemn festivals where held and where sacrifices where offered.

There in the temple carved in wood,

The image of great Odin stood. (the sager of King Olaf by HW Longfellow 1863)

Keep your Electric eye on me,

Little wonder,

All you pretty things,

To some where strangers,

When we meet,

The Arcadian shepherd,

The moon age daydream, the Black star,    

All the soaring days of are lives,

All the joys you sore through,

In your Architects  e

Fairy hills refer to mounds, barrows, and circular elevations in Celtic mythology that are believed to be dwellings or gateways to the realm of fae.“The Good People”, “The Gentry” or dwellers of the hollow hills and worlds that aren’t accessible to the living - without paying a price the wise would not pay.

Zoanthropy, in which a person firmly believes they have turned into a non human animal, derives from the greek words “Zoion” meaning “animal” and “Anthropos” meaning “man”.

“Kitsune” in japanese folklore literally means “fox”.  Kitsune are fox spirits  and are said to possess the ability to shape shift or bewitch other life forms.

Kitsune became associated with Inari - the Shinto deity (seen to the far right of the picture and again depicted to the bottom left). Is said to grant abundance, foxes serve as his messengers.

In Japaneses folklore foxes have nine tails, generally a greater number of  tails indicates an older and more powerful Kitsune.

Inari’s kitsune are white the colour of a good omen. They posses the power to ward of evil, and they sometimes serve as guardian spirits.

In the legend of the swordsmith Sanjo Munechika, Inari is described as transforming into the spirit of a fox to aid him. This is why the finished blade was named, Kogitsune-maru - “Little-fox”  inscribed with both Munechika’s smithing name and the word “Kogitsune” commemorating the fox spirit’s assistance.

Drawn many years ago and still awaiting his graphic novel debut, he battles shade-droids with his “crystal set-blunder thrust”, along with his faithful bulldog Algernon.

All the machines are quiet,

All the machines are dead,

Dependency to toil for Man,

Does not exist instead,

Gemini twins feed from,

An entities nutrition,

While nature’s chaos subsides,

In non-binary fruition,

That was the old world,

And this is the new,

The candle between the horns,

Lights for liberty.