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	Mythology - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The earliest attempts at a crude science of mythology were efforts to reconcile the legends of the gods and heroes with the religious sentiment which recognized in these beings objects of worship and respect.
		The new theories of mythology are based on the belief that " it is man, it is human thought and human language combined, which naturally and necessarily produced the strange conglomerate of ancient fable."' But, while there is now universal agreement so far, modern mythologists differed essentially on one point.
		But, while the possibility of the diffusion of myths by borrowing and transmission must be allowed for, the hypothesis of the origin of myths in the savage state of the intellect supplies a ready explanation of their wide diffusion.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mythology (16997 words)

	deer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In deer that lack antlers (the musk deer and Chinese river deer), long upper canines serve as weapons.
		The white-tailed deer that live in woodlands throughout the United States and in Central America and N South America was a source of food, buckskin, and other necessities for Native Americans and white settlers.
		The mule deer exists in reduced numbers from the Plains region westward, and the closely related fl-tailed deer is a Pacific coast form.
	www.bartleby.com /65/de/deer.html (400 words)

	ANIMALS IN SPIRIT at SpiritDiscovery.com
		Deer people (those that are born with characteristics of deer spirit and carry the gift of "deer medicine") are often described as being swift and alert.
		Deer's medicine includes gentleness in word, thought and touch, ability to listen, grace and appreciation for the beauty of balance, understanding of what's necessary for survival, power of gratitude and giving, ability to sacrifice for the higher good, connection to the woodland spirits, and alternative paths to a goal.
		DEER IN Deer in dreams may represent gentleness, healing and connection to the forest, which is said to symbolize the unconscious of the dreamer.
	spiritdiscovery.com /animalspirit.shtml (2653 words)

	Deer (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC.
		In Greek mythology, the deer is particularly associated with Artemis in her role as virginal huntress.
		Deer are considered messengers to the Gods in Shinto, especially Kasuga Shrine in Nara Prefecture where a white deer had arrived from Kashima Shrine as its divine messenger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deer_(mythology) (794 words)

	ChristStory Deer Page
		The stag was believed to pursue snakes into their holes or rock crevices, flush them out by flooding the hole with the breath or water from his mouth, and devour them.
		The deer is often found on baptismal fonts and Eucharistic cups, symbolizing the soul's desire for baptism and the Eucharist.
		Deer are attributes of several saints including St.
	ww2.netnitco.net /users/legend01/stag.htm (412 words)

	Deer Stags Resources & Information - deer stags and tribune
		Deer are widely distributed, with representatives in all continents except Australia, Antarctica, and Africa.
		A number of deer hybrids are bred to improve meat yield in farmed deer.
		In Canada, the farming of European Red Deer and Red Deer hybrids is considered a threat to native Wapiti.
	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-D---Ei/Deer-Stags.html (1208 words)

	Where the White Stag Runs by Ari Berk: Winter, Autum, 2003 Journal of Mythic Arts, Endicott Studio
		Though deer are certainly not rare (especially here in Michigan), their appearance brings the feeling of wilderness close, reminding me that we are only ever a few paces away from the forest, from the wild, from the edges of the living storied land.
		Deer is a common figure in American Indian myths, often appearing in stories that continue the focus on families, kinship, marriage, child-rearing, hunting and pursuit.
		Deer is their brother, and their pilgrimages follow Deer's tracks across the land in a mythic "hunting" of the peyote.
	www.endicott-studio.com /rdrm/rrstag.html (3554 words)

	Deer
		The size and shape of the antlers may be determined by the deers age, its condition and its place in the social hierarchy.
		In Celtic mythology, the deer is a magical creature, able to move between the worlds.
		In captivity, fallow deer may reach an age of maximum 25 years, in the wild their lifespan is 11-15 years.
	www.dierinbeeld.nl /animal_files/mammals/deer (2192 words)

	Coues- Mule Deer Hybrids
		In the case of whitetails and mule deer, courtship and breeding behavior is different enough that body language and scent cues given off by a female mule deer during rut are not "understood" by a male whitetail and vice versa.
		In the early 1980s, whitetails and mule deer in a 5-county area were tested using serum albumin and researchers found that on the average 5.6% of the deer they tested were hybrids.
		Early explorers, Lewis and Clark noted in their journal “the fl-tailed fallow deer are peculiar to this coast and are a distinct species, partaking equally of the qualities of the mule deer and the common deer [whitetail]”.
	www.coueswhitetail.com /coues_biology/hybrids.htm (2454 words)

	1.1. Barbarous Europe, and it cultural worlds.
		Such association could arise and because of similarity deer horns with branches and consequently, that the deer dumps horns an autumn, and new at it grow is similar to annual revival of vegetation " (Holan, 1992, 40) in the spring.
		From a deer bearing from under the ground the sun, nearby and up to a boat transporting souls died and up to a horse, carrying out the same function.
		And more and more late female characters of mythologies of Barbarous Europe (and the Indo-European mythologies as a whole) are derivatives from an image of the Great Goddess.
	earth.prohosting.com /history3/mythology2.htm (3014 words)

	Artemis, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Theseus believed her, for those who are given to excesses are not deemed to be reliable, and having prayed to Poseidon that Hippolytus 4 might perish, obtained his wish.
		Accordingly, when the Achaean fleet was at Aulis, the goddess kept it wind bound until the Achaeans sacrificed Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter, as a remedy to that inconvenience.
		In this barbarian country, which today is called "Crimea" and is the large peninsula in the northern coast of the Black Sea, Iphigenia lived several years sending strangers to the altar, where they were butchered by attendants in the course of nonsensical rites supposed to honour the goddess.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Artemis.html (1137 words)

	Stag - Deer
		The deer was said to be a fairy creature that could pass between the world's.
		The Hopi deer dance was to bring the rain, the California Yurok White deer dance was for a bountiful wild crop and the Zuni deer dance was to bring a cure for illness.
		Deer Antler Velvet is also a safe and natural treatment for boosting the immune system by increasing the production of white blood cells.
	www.druidry.org /obod/lore/animal/stag.html (5533 words)

	Whitetail Mythology
		Like "deer never look up." Though the animal's last natural enemy from above was likely the flying dinosaur, pterodactyl, to say that deer never raise their heads to study the landscape is a stretch.
		As hunting pressure intensifies, the more deer look up; it's a good idea to inch up that tree higher than normal wherever deer are accustomed to human intervention in their back yard -- 25 feet, or more, might be necessary.
		While it's always a good idea to err on the conservative side when in doubt, I've had ample opportunities in recent years to experiment on enough deer to conclude that the odor of human urine is not an automatic alarm signal.
	www.finesthuntingsupply.com /whitetail-mythology.html (1051 words)

	Deer: Albino Deer - Persian Fallow Deer - Prophecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fallow deer was completely wiped out in Palestine by hunting, deforestation and the spread of towns and villages.
		In 2003, two male fallow deer wee located in a German zoo and brought to Israel in a complex, expensive operation.
		In Persian mythology, he is the saviour who will come to renew life at the end of time.
	www.crystalinks.com /albinodeer.html (902 words)

	Stirrup-spout bottle: figure with deer [Peru; Cupisnique] (67.239.16) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cupisnique potters depicted a broad range of animals on their ceramic vessels, usually those that figured prominently in their mythology.
		Deer, widely distributed on both American continents, were an important food source and a favorite in myth and art.
		On this burnished flware vessel, a small, naturalistically rendered deer is being carried on the broad shoulders of a heavy, seated man. The man's head, covered with a conical cap, leans forward with his load.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/04/sac/hod_67.239.16.htm (215 words)

	Xcaret Cancun Mexico Eco Park - Deer Shelter Species at Xcaret white tail
		Among the diversity of fauna at Xcaret one that had to be present was the deer, a cultural symbol of the Yucatan Peninsula and an important representative of its biological richness.
		Deer were animals Mayans greatly valued as they were the symbol of all things sacred.
		In Mayan mythology it was the deer that created the moon´s sexual organs with its hoof, it was also admired because of its beauty and its agility.
	www.xcaret.com /park-attractions/deer-shelter.php (286 words)

	Ireland's OWN: Celtic Symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The deer was the principal animal hunted by the Celts for food.
		One day, while hunting, Finn encountered a young woman in the form of a deer; her name was Sava.
		Sava produced a son, Oisin (Little Deer), who had a close affinity with stags and may himself have been a skin changer.
	irelandsown.net /deerstag.html (233 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		Deer are widely distributed, with representatives in all continents except Australia and Africa.
		Antlers are bony growths which develop each year (usually in summer) and, in general, it is only male deer that develop them (although there are exceptions).
		There are about 43 species of deer worldwide, divided into two broad groups: the old world group includes the subfamilies Muntiacinae and Cervinae; the new world deer the subfamilies Hydropotinae and Capreolinae.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Deer (529 words)

	Indonesia Mythology - Trickster Tales
		As soon as he had put a safe distance between himself and the tiger, he gave the signal, and the tiger struck the nest, only to be beset the next instant by a swarm of angry wasps.
		When the latter came back with him, he was appealed to as a judge; but saying that he could not decide the case unless the circumstances were made quite clear to him, he demanded that the whole affair be repeated for his enlightenment.
		One day the cat reproached the deer for having stepped on the ear of one of her kittens, but the deer excused himself, saying that he was startled by a bird and ran, and that the blame thus rested with the bird, who, by flying up suddenly, was the real cause of the accident.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles29/mythology-13.shtml (4928 words)

	Mythography \| The Greek Goddess Artemis in Myth and Art
		She was known as the "Mistress of Animals" and the protectress of children, but she was also a huntress and the goddess who could bring death with her arrows.
		Her independent nature is further reinforced in a very important way, for in mythology and religion, the goddess remained eternally a virgin.
		The goddess Artemis was known as Diana in Roman mythology.
	www.loggia.com /myth/artemis.html (464 words)

	GURPS Celtic Myth Bestiary
		Deer will occasionally fight by kicking or trampling (1d crushing damage), or by butting with the antlers (1d impaling damage).
		RED DEER are a reddish brown in colour, and stand four feet high at the shoulder.
		Finn's wife in Celtic mythology is turned into a deer while pregnant, and later gives birth to a human child (Oisin, Finn's son) while living in deer form in the forest.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/books/CelticMyth/celtic-bestiary.html (1532 words)

	Trees for Life - Mythology and Folklore of Deer
		In Irish mythology Finn mac Cumhail, the legendary leader of Ireland's heroic band of warriors known as the Fianna, cornered a beautiful white deer, which his hounds then refused to dispatch.
		That night Finn was visited by the goddess Sadb, who explained that a spell had turned her into the deer Finn had chased, a spell from which his love could release her.
		Though different species of deer, as well as wholly magical versions, played their part in different mythologies, in northern Europe the reoccurring theme of the deer as animal of the hunt, and specifically the chase, revolved around the red deer.
	www.treesforlife.org.uk /forest/mythfolk/deer.html (825 words)

	The characters of "Blanco's Magic Tails" - Stag and Vayu, the Deer
		If a deer comes to you in a dream, meditation, or everyday life, it could
		Deer also represents the cycle of transformation between death and rebirth.
		Male deer (or a Stag) bring messages from your 'spirit guides'.
	www.magictails.com /CP/deer.html (175 words)

	Deer Tracking Article
		As Valerius Geist explained in the June 1995 issue of (Deer and Deer Hunting), the whitetail's key to escaping is speed.
		Mitochondrial DNA analysis of hybridization between sympatric white-tailed deer and mule deer in west Texas.
		Hybridization of free-ranging whitetail and mule deer in Texas.
	www.deertracking.com /library/dec2001_tails_dark_side.html (2554 words)

	Kiki Smith Born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In works of art such as Born, Smith moves beyond the body to incorporate a complex personal symbolism, which addresses the role of humans in the wider context of nature and the universe.
		In Classical Greek mythology, a deer accompanies Diana, Goddess of the Hunt.
		The Panche Indians of Colombia believe that human souls pass into the bodies of deer after death, and in many European traditions, the male deer is a symbol of renewal and rebirth.
	www.fantasyarts.net /Kiki_smith_born.htm (352 words)

	Oisin
		Surprisingly, the dogs did not attack the poor deer; instead they began to play with her and even to lick her.
		She revealed to him that she had been turned into a deer by the spell of an evil druid and that this spell could only be broken if Finn MacCool came to love her.
		He also said that a tall dark stranger came to see his mother every now and again but that she was afraid of him and when he tapped her with a magic stick she was made to follow him.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mythology/15653/1 (475 words)

	Mythology Page
		The study of mythology is the interpretation of myths -- traditional stories that serve to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.
		As Kenati lifted the deer on his back and started his journey home, the boys said "We can do that!" and made plans for the next day.
		A deer ran out and the boys ran after it, but in their excitement they forgot to cover the opening of the cave.
	home.earthlink.net /~eclecticcoven/data/Mythology.htm (8219 words)

	Tuan - The Deer - Gemini
		In Irish mythology the Deer is a very magical sign and is most often associated with the Fianna.
		Fionn's wife, the mother of Oisin was in the form of a deer due to a curse upon her by a magician.
		Then he awoke in the form of a Stag, and he became king of all the Deer in Ireland.
	www.carrowkeel.com /art/prints/tuan.html (168 words)

	Yggdrasil
		In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil ("The Terrible One's Horse"), also called the World Tree, is the giant ash tree that links and shelters all the worlds.
		Three wells lie at its base: the Well of Wisdom (Mímisbrunnr), guarded by Mimir; the Well of Fate (Urdarbrunnr), guarded by the Norns; and the Hvergelmir (Roaring Kettle), the source of many rivers.
		Four deer run across the branches of the tree and eat the buds; they represent the four winds.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/y/yggdrasil.html (173 words)

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