This is such an amazing post filled to the brim with such interesting information! Do you know the poem “Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde” by Sir Tomas Wyatt? I’m sure you will do but it follows so many of the themes set down here and is very interesting to read with all this context!
So pleased to find your work, Melinda, by way today of Caitlín Matthews' note. I was interested enough to look through your past posts and then find this one. Finding your image of the white deer in the Wilton Diptych sent me right to my Greenwood Tarot, where the same image was adapted to become Queen of Arrows (Swords), one of my favorite images in the deck. So I've spent a happy hour here and at Wikimedia Commons and look forward to reading more of your writing, for I seem to be "weird in the way" you are, and love what you are writing about and the pictures you use. Thank you!
Oh! This is such a welcome place. Deer people saved my soul a few years back and I think you may have written the book I looked for but couldn't find. I managed to dig up Esther Jacobson-Tepfer's stuff and the anthro ork of Willerslev and Vitebsky but nothing convincing on Elen or any thing into the West of it all. I just yesterday, in the name of financial solvency promised my partner a limit to book purchases. Already I see some oaths must be broken immediately. So glad to have found this substack. Thanks for it.
Thank you for your kind words, Andrew. It means a lot to me when people let me know that my writing touched them and reminds them of sacred encounters.
In The White Deer, I barely mention Elen of the Ways, but there's a long article about her here on the blog.
So well researched but your links were not working, I didn’t find the previous essays via the links
Wonderful to stumble upon this post, after having seen two white deer in the woods above our valley the other evening!
This is such an amazing post filled to the brim with such interesting information! Do you know the poem “Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde” by Sir Tomas Wyatt? I’m sure you will do but it follows so many of the themes set down here and is very interesting to read with all this context!
So pleased to find your work, Melinda, by way today of Caitlín Matthews' note. I was interested enough to look through your past posts and then find this one. Finding your image of the white deer in the Wilton Diptych sent me right to my Greenwood Tarot, where the same image was adapted to become Queen of Arrows (Swords), one of my favorite images in the deck. So I've spent a happy hour here and at Wikimedia Commons and look forward to reading more of your writing, for I seem to be "weird in the way" you are, and love what you are writing about and the pictures you use. Thank you!
Thank you for your kind comments, Cari - it's wonderful to be able to connect through these timeless images.
Oh! This is such a welcome place. Deer people saved my soul a few years back and I think you may have written the book I looked for but couldn't find. I managed to dig up Esther Jacobson-Tepfer's stuff and the anthro ork of Willerslev and Vitebsky but nothing convincing on Elen or any thing into the West of it all. I just yesterday, in the name of financial solvency promised my partner a limit to book purchases. Already I see some oaths must be broken immediately. So glad to have found this substack. Thanks for it.
Thank you for your kind words, Andrew. It means a lot to me when people let me know that my writing touched them and reminds them of sacred encounters.
In The White Deer, I barely mention Elen of the Ways, but there's a long article about her here on the blog.
Have a beautiful Autumn!