Neolithic Shamanism by Raven Kaldera & Galina Krasskova

Author:Raven Kaldera & Galina Krasskova [Kaldera, Raven & Krasskova, Galina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Shamanism
ISBN: 9781594775048
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2017-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

Horse

Raven: Three waves of people passed through northern Europe over the many thousands of years. First were the hunters and herders who wandered north as the glaciers receded; we can tell from the creation myth—which has the snows melting from the mountains through the warm winds of the Place of Fire—that they saw the ending of the Ice Age. They had stone tools and lived in a cold world with wolves, frost, fire, deer, and the open sea. Then the first wave of conquerors—and intermarries—came, with their oxcarts and their agricultural Gods, settling in one place and farming instead of wandering. At this point the Mesolithic gave way to the Neolithic, and the hunter-gatherer Gods and goddesses of the first pantheon were relegated to “giants” by the new Indo-European-speaking peoples, who still feared and respected them, however, as the embodiments of wild Nature. The second pantheon of Gods were agricultural and oversaw farming and fishing rather than hunting and herding.

Then, thousands of years later, the latecomers rode in. While they spoke a branch of the same language as the earlier arrivals, they were warriors rather than farmers, and their Gods were warrior-Gods. They swept in on horseback—a sea of horses and armed people—and as it was said of the much later Huns, “their country was the back of a horse.” It was with the horse that they conquered the lands in front of them, and then they settled down to rule those lands. Three waves of people, three pantheons: Rökkr, Vanir, Aesir, as we call them today. But it is to the third wave that we look to celebrate this animal spirit—the third pantheon, and the beauty of its favored animal . . . pounding across the land like water and fire, bearing the amazed human on its back with speed he would never otherwise know.

Galina: My sister has a powerful Horse spirit, and from her I have learned two important things: that horses measure our capacity for kindness and that they will not tolerate being bound. Horse, more than any other animal I have encountered, detests and adamantly resists binding ties. It will enter into a relationship freely and willingly, but insists on freedom to come and go as it wishes, and equal partnership rather than subjugation. Horse is cagey and would rather hedge and dance away than commit to the exclusion of escape. Horse can teach one to work without the comfort of self-imposed limitations, as this spirit possesses a tremendous core of self-confidence and ease of being. Horse is a particularly good ally for those struggling with codependent tendencies. Horse dismisses that behavior with a toss of its head, a stomp of its hoof, and a disdainful neighing cry. It is a glorious animal, and one more than willing to partner with humanity, but it partners as an equal, not a servant.

Love not the world unless it runs like horses. Love not the wind unless it ripples wild manes. Love not the Sun if it cannot gallop, nor find hope in paradise if there be no pasture.

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