Myth*ingLinks' Earth Day PageMYTH*ING LINKSAn Annotated & Illustrated Collection of WorldwideLinksto Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore,Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditionsby Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.Common Themes, East & West: EARTH DAY22 APRIL The Web of Life: if you injure one strand, all the others are harmedas well.[Map is from From Carol Brouillet's excellent essay:Reweavingthe Web of Life]*******...And all thingsare woven together and all things are undone again, and all things aremingled with one another, and all things are composed, and all things arepermeated with one another, and all things are decomposed again. And everything will be moistened and become desicated again, and everythingputs forth blossoms and everything withers again in the bowl of the altar.... --From the Visions of Zosimos, cited in Carl Jung's essay,"Transformation Symbolism in the Mass" *******Nobody is truly saneuntil he feels gratitude tothe whole universe. -- Oscar Ichazo *******Civilizationno longer needs to open up wilderness;it needs wildernessto help open upthe still largelyunexplored human mind. -- David Rains Wallace *******At some point inlife the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph,paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needsto be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens -- that letting go -- you let go because you can. The world will always be there -- while you sleep it will be there -- whenyou wake it will be there as well. So you can sleep and there isreason to wake. -- From Toni Morrison's Tar Baby Out in space, Christ weeping over our planet(Source unknown)7-8April 2002, 3:15am,Author's Note:Spring Equinox, Passover, Easter, and Earth Day all fall within abrief thirty day period each year. These spring celebrations involvethemes of renewal, trust in the deeper currents of life, and unexpectedhelp in the darkest of times. All of these celebrations respect naturalprocesses aligned with the mysterious divine. The rich ritual legacyChrist left Christendom, for example, centers around simple bread fromearth's fields of grain -- and wine from earth's sunripened grapes. What Christ left his believers -- what was important to him -- werenot his sufferings but, rather, bread and wine transformed within the greatweb-of-life and shared in communion with human beings who were themselvesintimately woven into that same web-of-life. These are natural processesshimmering within the Sacred. We should not forget this.Politicians and multi-national businesses do forget this, however,and will oppose natural processes and ecological interests with cunninglaws and crafty, hypocritical rhetoric. Their loyalties clearly belongto the business of business, and not to the business of Mother Earth. The rest of us will need to work with renewed hope, a stalwart sense ofhumor, and a clear determination to protect the environment for all specieswithout resorting to the warped logic and corrupt strategies used by thepowerful opposition.As violence escalates this spring in the Middle East, the web-of-lifeis also forgotten. What kind of idolatry is it to obsess over a pieceof "holy land" so brutally that human lives are counted as nothing? Such intractability on both sides forfeits any claim on, or connectionto, the divine.In this springtide season, may we pray, create rituals, sprinklewater blessed by our hands on the earth, light peace-fires, write lettersto politicians and CEOs, send them e-mails (e.g., see the SierraClub and other activism sites that make sending appropriate e-mailseasy), march in local protests, carry banners, and start new websites. May we not collapse into emotions that'll only drain us. May we staycalm and watchful, show compassion towards our own bodies(which arealso of earth) -- and do whatever our own healthy, creative imaginationsprompt us to do for Earth Day this year. It'll all help.  http://www.witherspoonsociety.org/earth_day.htm[Added 4/22/04]: This is a "progressive" Presbyterian site with terrific resources for allages for Earth Day. Dates refer to 2002 but most of the informationis valid for any time. The page opens with shocking clarity:A sad illustration for an EarthDay sermon... and some steps to take [4-18-02]The Rev. Bruce Gillettehas sent this sad but helpful thought for those who will celebrate EarthDay on Sunday, April 21, 2002.Pollutionfrom power companies is killing twice as many people annually as died onSeptember 11th. (See the New York Times report on April 18,2002, headlined "Study Sees 6,000 Deaths From Power Plants"). We are spendingbillions in response in our war against terrorism - now our nation needsto respond to these ongoing deaths.... http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041908G.shtml[20 April 2008:]"Green" claims can be a confusing, "grey" area. This site offers severallinks to help clear away the confusion and hype. http://www.earthday.net/This is Earthday Network -- a thoughtful, serioussite for Earth Day and environmental issues in general. Among theofferings are "Events & Groups" (various Earth Day celebrations aroundthe United States); "How To ---"; and "Grist Magazine," which is the areaI found most interesting because it features well written essays by expertson environmental issues -- here, for example, is a direct link to a Dartmouthprofessor, the late Donella Meadows, discussing ABC's John Stossel's attackon organic farming: http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/citizen/citizen031300.stmThere's another feature called "Teachers Corner" with excellentinformation on Earth Day for classroom use: http://www.earthday.net/howto/teachers-corner.stmAnd there's "Breaking News" with updates on environmentalnews at:http://www.earthday.net/pressroom/This is an impressive site with solid information and goals. http://www.surfaquarium.com/newsletter/earth_day.htm[Added 4/22/04]: Thisis Innovative Teaching's fabulous resource site for children's EarthDay activities:...Here is anoffering of what's out there to help your kids make the connections betweentheir studies and one of the true remnants of unabashed activism stillthriving today - the environmental movement....My favorite from a long list of projects is this one:Celebrate Earth Day with the Lorax- http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/lorax/Dr. Seuss's lovable characterinvites you to play the Save the Trees game and participate in reforestationby becoming a Lorax helper - great for elementary students familiar withthe original story. http://holidays.kaboose.com/earth-day/index.html:[updated 4/20/08]Again for children, this is Kid's Domain's "CelebrateEarth Day - Every Day." There are stories, coloring pages, EarthDay cards, games, songs, crafts, foods, amimated rainforest animals (youcan download a demo of these), and much more. http://www.envirolink.org/newsearch.html?searchfor=EarthDay+2004&x=21&y=15:[URLupdated 4/20/04]This site, updated annually, offers a listing of Earth Day/Week/Monthevents around the United States (and a way to add your own to the others),tips for organizers of such events, terrific earth-friendly products, and-- best of all -- the international coverage of the EnviroLinkNews Service -- Daily Environmental News. Here, for example,is one news item from 2000 (from EnviroLink): LONDON,April 5, 2000 (Reuters) - The Church of England should not allow new tenantsto carry out genetically modified crop trials on its land, the church'sEthical Advisory Group said on Wednesday....[Go to their "News Archives" if you want more particulars.] http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.htmlFrom the above site comes a fascinating history of EarthDay since its beginning on 22 April 1970. [Note 4/11/01[updated 4/20/08]: another good history alternate is at EarthdayNetwork: http://ww2.earthday.net/node/77]. http://www.thegreenlife.org/:[URL updated 4/20/04]"EarthDay Resources for Living Green: the Consumer Clearinghousefor the Environmental Decade" is a sober, careful site that, among otherthings, watchdogs false advertising claims by companies like Coca Cola,Chevron, Mobil, and Pacific Gas & Electric (whose misuse of a chemicalcalled chromium VI has now been made famous by the movie, "Erin Brockovich,"starring Julia Roberts). Each year this non-profit organization putsout its "Don't Be Fooled" Awards:...American consumersare increasingly looking for products from companies that are environmentallyresponsible, but find it difficult to sort through the numerous claimscorporations make in their advertisements and product labels. Earth Day2000 releases this report annually to call attention to the past year’sworst greenwashers, corporations that have made misleading or false claimsabout the environmental benefits of their products and industries. "Don’tBe Fooled" describes companies’ greenwashing attempts as well as the truthbehind the misleading claims....Under "Links" are city-links to many different American municipalitieswith Earth Day celebrations as well as links to a wide array of environmentalorganizations. Under "Events" are Earth Day listings for more citieswithout websites. http://www.environmentaldefense.orgThis page comes from the non-profit organization, EnvironmentalDefense, and like other sites on my page, offers news updates on seriousenvironmental issues. It also offers an impressive collection ofnew ways to protect the environment by "pointing & clicking" (go to"Action Center" in the small-lettered menu across the top of the page). Here's a review from PRNewswire:[deadlink 4/20/04] PRESS RELEASE Publication date: 2000-04-05NEW YORK, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- TakingEarth Day activism beyond a concert in the park, Environmental Defense(www.environmentaldefense.org), today highlighted a variety of direct-action tools online to let concerned consumers help improve the environmentin their own backyards and around the globe.Environmental Defense,a leading national nonprofit organization based in New York, representsmore than 300,000 members. Since 1967, the organization has linked science,economics, and law to create innovative, equitable, and cost-effectivesolutions to the most urgent environmental problems."To mark the 30th anniversaryof Earth Day, we are using the power of the Internet to take environmentalactivism to the next level," said Environmental Defense executive director,Fred Krupp. "People are now just a point and click away from making a bigdifference this Earth Day."From Scorecard, a stateof the art resource allowing people to easily track and lobby pollutersin their own communities, to the Clean Car Pledge, Environmental Defense'sonline features deliver tools for action directly to the desktops of consumers.......Dedicated to findingthe ways that work, Environmental Defense is a national advocacy organizationwith nearly 200 scientists, economists, attorneys, and other professionalsin its eight regional offices. The organization was founded in 1967 andhas helped bring about some of the twentieth century's most significantenvironmental milestones. From the phase-out of neurotoxic leaded gasolineto the ban of DDT (a measure that brought the Bald Eagle back from thebrink of extinction) to persuading McDonald's to phase out foam clamshells,Environmental Defense has been on the cutting edge of environmental gainsfor more than 30 years. The organization has worked closely with the Bushand Clinton Administrations to create environmentally sound and economicallyviable strategies for reducing acid rain and controlling global warming,and continues to pursue new solutions by working directly with business,government, and grassroots groups on approaches that make sense for all. http://www.enn.com/[Added 4/7-8/02]: Thisis the excellent Environmental News Network, or ENN:Since 1993, theEnvironmental News Network has been working to educate the world aboutenvironmental issues facing our Earth....Today we not only offer timelyenvironmental news, but live chats, interactive quizzes, daily featurestories, forums for debate, audio, video and more. These components areall aimed at educating our users about the major issues, while atthe same time giving them the tools to make a difference in their own community.We are not an activist publication, but instead try to present informationfrom all sides so our users can make their own decisions....The site is a very rich resource. http://www.sdearthtimes.com/This is the San Diego Earth Times On-Line --it offers high calibre monthly articles on the environment:Each month, SanDiego Earth Times On-Line presents articles covering a wide variety oflocal, national and international environmental topics. The SDET archivecontains every article published since our first issue in Dec '93 -- morethan 1,000 articles.We also offer a searchableCalendar of Earth-Friendly Events, an Archive Search Engine, Web linksand more....For April, they have several special features on Earth Day (updatedannually). http://geology.about.com/education/geology/library/weekly/aa040900a.htm:4/20/04: [Dead link but I'm keeping the annotation.]From Andrew Alden, the geology guide at about.com,comes an essay (with clickable links) on Earth Day, past and present. He argues for creating a larger role for the earth sciences on this day,a role that would lift the day's often too tepid, feel-good quality toone of genuine significance....The politicalside of Earth Day has faded from its remarkable origin in 1970, duringthe Nixon administration. Back then, ideas about conservation and environmentalismwere vigorously debated, part of a sea change in American consciousness.... ArtemisCopyright © by the artist, JoannaPowell Colbert,and used with her kind permission [URLupdated 4/7-8/02].[Note: on her site, Joanna includes data on thisGoddess of the Wilds,who so fiercely protected Her forests and the youngof all species] http://www.wildideas.net/forest/library/ecospirit.html[Added 4/12/01]: This is a lengthy scholarly paper, "The Soul of Nature: The Meaning ofEcological Spirituality," by Lynna Landstreet. It's an excellent,highly worthwhile, serious essay. The author has divided it into16 subsections, each with a separate page (the full text is availableon one page if you wish to print it out). To give you an ideaof her range, here are the subsections: 1. Introduction; 2. Enviromentalismand the sacred; 3. The sacred defined; 4. Spiritual experience as transformative;5."Despairwork" -- spirituality and activist burnout; 6. Immanence andanimism in the West; 7. Monotheism and scientific atheism; 8. Three axesof change; 9. Magic and the problem of belief; 10.The cultural and historicalspecificity of disbelief; 11. The resurgence of spirituality in the West;12. The birth of neopaganism; 13. Spiritual deep ecology; 14. Spirituality,culture and identity; 15. Tensions and commonalities between neo-paganismand deep ecology; and 16. Conclusions and endnotes.I went browsing and what first caught my eye was a beautifully nuancedpiece from section 9 on magic and belief -- here's a portion from the beginning:...A society'sview of magic may in fact say a great deal about where that society perceivesitself in relation to the world, in terms of the locus of power and control.A world where magic can happen is a world where we don't have all the answers,a world where nature still holds the power to surprise us, to confoundour expectations and evade our attempts at categorization, prediction andcontrol. In my view, the acceptance of the possibility of magic is rooted in humility-- it is a tacit admission that we don't know everything. Conversely, thedenial of magic is rooted in control fetishism -- in the blind faith thatnothing we don't understand can exist. Even the term "supernatural" initself implies a faith in the possibility of some sort of absolute knowledgeof what is "natural." I find that this faith in the ability, and perhaps more importantly, theright,of human beings to define the bounds of reality, to dictate what natureshould and should not be allowed to do, is disturbingly widespread, evenamong many who are otherwise quite critical of anthropocentric biases.... http://www.deenametzger.com/[Added 4/7/02]:This site from well known American-Jewish author and teacher, Deena Metzger,isn't specifically focused on Earth Day, yet Deena's writings on such themesas animals, the Council of Elders, and peacemaking resonate deeply withthe sacred dimensions of this day. This is a wise, eloquent, andthought-provoking site. [Also see my Myth*ing Linkspage on Deena Metzger's Call for Deliberation.] Detail of "Water Dance"Painting © by Mo Montserrat[From The Sacred Feminine: URL is now dead, 4/20/04] http://www.epa.gov/adopt/earthday/index.html:[Updated 4/20/08]This is a great little page from the EPA with 15 thingsyou can do to help your local watershed for Earth Day -- or anyday. Water:Sacrality & Lore (Wells, Springs, Pools, Lakes)[Added 4/12/01]: Continuingthe theme of water is my new Myth*ing Links page. Especially relevantto Earth Day are the first 4 links showing how crystallization-patternsin water are profoundly affected by positive emotions and certain kindsof music; on the flip side, these links show how the patterns break downinto murky chaos when the water is polluted, or subjected to heavy metalmusic or emotional negativity; the implications, underscored by great photoson each of those 4 sites, are awesome. http://www.pta.org/events/ew/00/index.htm:4/20/04: [Dead link -- unfortunately,the PTA has discontinued their coverage of this day. I'm keepingthe annotation as a reminder of what they once valued.]For children, this is the National PTA's (Parent TeacherAssociation) website for Earth Week 2000 (16-22 April). The focusis on clean water, clean air, and lead-poisoning prevention.[4/11/01:not updated but the data remains relevant for *any* year.] Courtesy of TradestoneInternational http://www.ciwf.org.uk/:[Updated 4/20/08][Added 4/7-8/02]: FromEngland comes "Compassion in World Farming":Compassion inWorld Farming was started in 1967 by dairy farmer Peter Roberts. Peter and his wife Anna were becoming increasingly concerned with the animalwelfare issues connected to the new systems of intensive farming that werebecoming popular during the 1960's.......Originally run fromthe Roberts family house, Compassion in World Farming has grown into anorganisation with branches in Ireland, France and Holland and contactsthroughout Europe and around the world.Compassion in World Farmingcampaigns through peaceful protest and lobbying and by raising awarenessof the issue of farm animal welfare. We also produce fully referenced scientificreports. Our undercover team provide vital evidence of the sufferingof farm animals. We have a wonderful network of supporters who helpus in so many ways and celebrities who lend their time and support to ourcampaigns....The site offers solid data on a wide rage of topics. They alsohave a great links page at: http://www.ciwf.co.uk/IntLinks/Links.htm http://www.factoryfarming.com/:[Added4/20/04]This site presents a series of lucid and fairly brief pageson the pernicious practice of "factory farming." There are specialsections on the various types -- e.g., dairy, poultry, beef, etc. http://www.farmsanctuary.orgThis is the Farm Sanctuary's website. One of my friends,Jane Brown, sent me this link after visiting the Sanctuary's northern Californiafarm in early 2000. Jane was so moved by what she saw, and so agonizedby the fate of so many other unrescued animals, that she spent the weekendin tears and has been haunted by the experience ever since. She isnow a strict vegan.This site isn't specifically focused on Earth Day, but it belongshere because these animals are Earth's own, and thus urgently deserve ourhelp and protection -- for their sake as well as our own. Here'sa portion of the page's introduction:Since incorporatingin 1986, Farm Sanctuary has established America's premier farm animal sheltersand waged effective campaigns to stop farm animal cruelty. In additionto its No Downers [note: "downers" are animals too weak to stand], BoycottVeal and Farm Animal Defense campaigns, Farm Sanctuary promotes a veganlifestyle.Every year, thousandsof people visit Farm Sanctuary in upstate New York and northern California.Here, people have the opportunity to be touched by rescued farm animals.Farm Sanctuary also hosts various conferences and events, and operatesBed & Breakfast cabins at its New York farm.Farm Sanctuary has videos,photos, and other resources to help educate people about farm animal abuse,and it has reached millions through the media. The organization alsopublishes a quarterly newsletter to keep its members informed....The site is deeply disturbing, but it is also filled with hope, beauty,and love. I hope you'll risk visiting this one. (FYI: so that you know my own position, I have been, essentially, a vegan formany years, although as a proper Capricorn, which is the sign of the archetypalgoat, I do use milk, yoghurt and cheese from goats. If everI have land of my own, I plan to raise a small herd of goats so that I'llbe 100% sure that they're loved and well cared for.) Courtesy of RussianSunbirds http://majordojo.com/vegetarianism/ecology.phtml: [URL updated 4/7/02]From D. Byrne Reese comes "A Global Responsibility," a wellwritten page with sobering statistics on meat production versus vegetarianism. The style is very accessible -- for example:...In all honesty,I resent scare tactics, and similar methods designed to shock people intochange. Such methods have always made me feel like I was being manipulated- and as a result, I resisted. However, the facts involved here areexactly that: facts. I will talk about them below because they are someof the reasons that persuaded me to become a vegetarian. Whenever possible,I will indicate the source from which these facts can be verified....Again, the page isn't specifically connected to Earth Day but, in alarger sense, it's an intricate piece of the overall picture. Myown suspicion -- and I'm speaking here purely as a mythologist with a depthpsychological perspective, not a scientific one, so please understand mybias and take it for what it's worth to you -- but my own suspicion isthat to take into one's body a life-form killed painfully, disrespectfully,untimely, and cruelly is to invite one's own cells to run amuck in confusionand revulsion -- the result could be what we call cancer. Humansare just one among many life-forms -- we're all interconnected -- how canour cellsnot feel the pain of all the others?If we were just digesting chemicals compounded in someone's lab,that would be one thing. Or if we were digesting the flesh of animalsand birds whose cellular structures still held memories of sun and rain,wind and fragrance, then even if their lives were terminated abruptly,but with the respect a hunter feels for a brave prey, we could probablyfind true nourishment there, for the earlier, soaring, life-drenched memorieswould still overbalance the pain at the end. But to take into ourselvesthe flesh of creatures reared in dismal, dreary, claustrophobic boredomon huge farms with thousands of other miserable creatures, never tastingrain or wind, never running free, and herded at the end into brutal pensof mass death, how could our own bodies ever digest and find decent nourishmentin such gray, cramped, inert flesh? I don't know. For myself,I prefer not to risk it. AnimalDeaths in Europe: Of Cows & Madness[Added 4/11/01]: Thisis a page I created for Mything Links on Spring Equinox 2001: it looksat Foot (Hoof) and Mouth Disease from the perspective of a cultural mythologist. I suggest in my essay that our tragically meat-engorged Western urban economydates back to the ill-omened founding of an ancient Greek city (Thebes,birthplace of infamous Oedipus) on the corpse of a harried cow. Weare still living with the twisted repercussions of that shift in consciousness. I hope you'll take a look. http://www.headlinemuse.com/Culture/footmouth.htm[Added 4/11/01]: Fromthe excellent monthly e-zine, Headline Muse, comes another culturalmythologist's look at Foot and Mouth Disease. Don't miss this subtle,compassionate essay by Adrian Strong, a meat-eater himself (and a formerstudent of mine at Pacifica GraduateInstitute) on our soulless attitudes towards the animals we eat. Here's an excerpt:...Do we stillhave any reverence or even respect left for that which gives up its ownlife so we may continue our own? The image of mountains of carcasses piledup in a field, being machined by bulldozers and front-end loaders, is apowerful one. Auschwitz this is not, we can smugly say to ourselves - forthe victims are not human - and yet the attitude of machine-mind whichhaunts the shadowy background of such images is not so dissimilar. Indeedis it not this same attitude which treats animals as mere units of productionand gives rise to such “stock” diseases as Foot-and-Mouth and Mad-Cow?For what passes for food and treatment of these animals can in no way beimagined as adequate to a soulful life....The way we treat our dailyfood – as stock – not as a living sacrament which keeps us alive is anindication of just how removed we are from Life, and consequently fromDeath. Yet the powerful images we see on television speak for the slaughteredsaying: “Yes, Look! This is the way we really are to you. Look at us! Weare mere carcasses to you – not even Livestock, but Deadstock!”....Strong then frames this larger issue within the context of an earlierincarnation in which the future Buddha sacrificed his own life to savea starving female tiger. I highly recommend this one. http://www.witchvox.com/earth/everydayearthday.html[Added 4/22/04]: Finally,from Witches' Voice, a highly respected pagan e-zine, comes "EveryDay is Earth Day" by Peg Aloi. It is hard-hitting, passionate, anddeserves to be read. She begins with her warm memories of Earth Daydating back to when it first began -- the high hopes, the immense promise,the eager activism. But, she continues, none of that worked, forthings are getting increasingly worse. Here are some excerpts:...We eat chickenand beef that has been pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, so muchso that girls in this country now start their menstrual periods an averageof five years earlier than they did twenty years ago.... American factoryfarming practices have so polluted our water table with potent pesticidesthat hardly any so-called "pure" spring water source can be guaranteeduntainted. These same factory farming practices (which stress productionover conservation of the land) have so eroded topsoil that vital mineralsand nutrients once present on our vegetables (read that "dirt in our diets")have all but disappeared, leading to an alarming rise in asthma among children.The use of bovine growth hormone in milk products...has been shown to leadin some cases to severe endometriosis and increased rates of breast cancerin women....She concludes on a note of mixed hope -- here is part of it:...LIVE as ifthere's a point to it all, as if a healthy lifestyle is actually makinga difference not just to yourself, but to your loved ones, and to all humanity.HOPE that our frenzied consumer culture will evolve and start to see theproblems with going too fast, buying too much, and not cleaning up afterourselves. But this takes WORK. Study alternatives to the status quo. Walkor bike to school or your job. Find a farm in your state that raises naturalpoultry and see if your local stores will stock their products. Turn offyour cellphone. Turn off the computer. Take a walk. Smile up at the sky.Hug a tree. Love your Mother.... Related Pages from Myth*ingLinks:To Common Themes: Water: Sacrality& Lore (Wells, Springs, Pools, Lakes)To Common Themes: Land: Sacrality& LoreTo Common Themes: Earth Goddesses& GodsTo Common Themes: Green MenTo Common Themes: Tree & PlantLoreTo Common Themes: AnimalDeaths in Europe: Of Cows & MadnessTo Current Springtide Greetings,Lore, & CustomsTo Eastern & Western Europe: Earth-BasedWays (Wicca)To the Wheel of the YearTo the Archived EarthDay 2001 PageTo the Archived EarthDay 2000 PageMenu of Common Themes, East & West:Animal GuidesAnimal Deathsin Europe: Of Cows & MadnessArtists & Muses: TheCreative ImpulseCreation Myths ICreation Myths IICrones & SagesDragons & SerpentsFood: Sacrality & LoreTHE FOUR ELEMENTSEARTH: Land: Sacrality& Lore (mountains, caves, labyrinths, spiral mounds,crop & stone circles, FengShui) Earth Day& Environmental Issues EarthGoddesses & GodsAIR: Air: Sacrality& Lore (air, wind, sky, storms, clouds, weather lore) Sky Goddesses& GodsFIRE: Fire: Sacrality& Lore (fire, northern lights, green-flashes, Elmo's Fire) Fire Goddesses& GodsWATER: Water: Sacrality& Lore (water, wells, springs,pools, lakes) Floods &Rainbows: Mythologies & Science WaterGoddesses & GodsGreen MenMusicNature Spirits ofthe WorldRituals of Birthing [forthcoming]Rituals of Marrying [forthcoming]Rituals of Death &DyingRituals of PubertyRituals of Devic Weather-Working:Anexperimental, on-going ritual in cyberspaceSacred Theatre & DanceShamanismStar Lore & AstrologySymbols, Signs, & RunesTime(Calendars, Clocks,Natural Temporal Cycles, Attitudes toward Time, & Millennium Issues)Trees & Plant LoreTricksters, Clowns, Magicians,Jesters & FoolsWars, Weapns & Lies: TheDehumanizing ImpulseWeaving Arts & Lore(Cosmic Webs, Spinning, Spindles, Clothing) My complete Site Map is on the Home Page.If you have comments,my e-mail address will also be found onthat page near the bottom.© 2000-2008 by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.Page originally created 4 April 2000 & published5-6 April 2000. Latest Updates:2000: 19 April 2000.2001: 11-12 April 2001: archived last year'spage;wrote new introduction for this year; checked alllinks; added a few new ones: 14 April 2001;14 May 2001 (added new menu); 11 July 2001 (Ned3.0+ added a link).2002: 7 April 2002: link check; minor textrevisions; reorganized some sections;shifted 3 Foot & Mouth links to their own page;changed some images; deleted music.7-8 April 2002, 3:15am: launched.8 April 2002: minor tweeking.2003: no updates as I was in the midst of movingfrom California to Michigan.2004: 20 April 2004 -- keeping opening essayfrom 2002 since nothing's changed;did links-check; shuffled around order of links; addedfactory-farm link.22 April 2004 - 1-2pm-ish: added 3 more must-see links;re-fonted all quoted passages.2008: 10 April 2008, 4:45am: added Christ Weepingimage; keeping opening essay from 2002.Still need to update all links for first time in 4years!19 April: I intended to update this page before theMay Day/Beltane page,but an email telling me about obnoxious pop-up adson the Beltane page changed my mind. Thus, Idid that one first.Tonight, I added a new Earth Day link to this page& updated a handful of broken links, thanks to my Links-Elf, Michaela-- still about 8 to go. Hopefully, I'll be able toupdate these links before 4/22.The kaleidescopic "Ann-i-mations"are provided by Ann Stretton at: |
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