CELTIC SHAMANISM ~ Pagan Celtic Spirituality

[Terri Benning]

INDIGENIZE! ~ Spiritual ecopsychology and the arts, including bioregional awareness, animism, shamanism, & no-tech DIY fun.

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Animal Attributes by Tina Fields, Ph.D.

http://indigenize.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/animal-attributes/

“If you could add three attributes to yourself from the animal, plant, or mineral kindoms, what would they be?”

 

Here are a few more of my own [Tina Fields] and others’ choice attributes, some of which begin to sound like superpowers:

• wings (feathered like a bird, or leathery like a bat)
• night vision
• antlers
• piercing sonic shrieks
• limb regeneration (the ability to grow parts back), like a lizard or starfish
• bioluminescence
• three stomachs, like ruminant animals such as cattle
• reproduction by spores, like mushrooms
• a tail, to flick or hang from
• immovability of a rock; the ability to sit and just erode
• labradorescence
• photosynthesis
• eyesight of a raptor
• twitch muscles of a cheetah
• sticky feet
• fur  (what sort? what color?)
• feet that can turn around backwards, like a squirrel
• dolphin-like swimming/breath holding/pressure resistance
• the ability to jump and balance like a cat
• the quivery alertness of prey animals
• a dog’s acute sense of smell
• the agility & balance of a mountain goat
• the ability to change genders throughout one’s lifetime, like a clownfish. (My friend Judy Pratt asks, “Wonder how our gender struggles would even out with a bit more experience of the supposed “other”???”)
• hermaphroditism, like a banana slug

We are clearly not the first to yearn after these things, as witnessed by these ancient shapeshifting sculptures from Europe, the antlered man on the Gundestrup Cauldron and the bas-relief of Lilith with owl feet and wings, both surrounded by related allies of other species.