A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in anymore so give it to me straight are they as they seem ?

Edit : To reduce confusion and to not have to answer to duplicate comments NO I do not hate animals . I think they are all neat and they are what they are and I don’t hold them up to humans standard but I’m not an animal person like cat people or dog people either . I hope this clears it up.

  • @Paragone@lemmy.world
    -8•2 months ago

    Raccoon-medicine is the medicine of helping-friends.

    There was a meme going 'round, where somebody had put up a bird-feeder or something, and they had it about 1 yard/metre off the ground, to prevent the raccoons from getting food from it…

    … a whole heap of them formed a living-ladder, so one of 'em could get at the food.

    That is the brilliantest demonstration of exactly what some Indigenous religions have said about 'em, that anybody could ever ask for.

    Read “Medicine Cards” by Jamie Sams, for a good survey of animal-spirits: it’s reasonably accurate.

    I’d add to it that upright owl-medicine is the medicine of meditation, but Indigenous religions didn’t dig into that kind of thing, only inner-winds peoples did ( Asian region ).

    ( and anybody who goes & lives among wilderness for awhile will learn animals’ natures/spirits specific to that locale, obviously )

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