Birds of a feather

We were discussing the Christian characteristic of turning the other cheek when Mary mentioned that cultures in the Middle East tend to be very scorpion-like, meaning, you step on my foot and I cut yours off. That got me thinking about the relationship between humans and the indigenous animals in that particular area, namely the scorpion, which thrives in abundance in that region. Of course, she was talking about Scorpio, the astrological sign, and how cultures seem to resonate to a particular sign. Perhaps Middle Eastern desert-dwellers subconsciously emulated the scorpion for its fierce ferocity, overcoming the massive size of its enemies. A scorpion sting will kill you no matter how big you are, and fits in nicely with the David and Goliath story, which still remains popular in Judeo-Christian mythology.

This got me thinking about other indigenous peoples and the creatures they cohabited with, such as the American Indians' relationship with bears, eagles, deer, wolves, etc. A bear can represent balance between work and play and hibernation during winter months with a new awakening in spring. Deer maintain their population in balance with food supplies. Eagles show how to hunt quietly and efficiently and how to stay above the common herd, and wolves teach the value of teamwork in the community. All these aspects are an encapsulation of the American Indian. and to understand these people you need to look no farther than the indigenous creatures in their area.

You can expand this concept of indigenous humans/animals to nearly every area on Earth. from the Japanese hot spring bathing monkeys to the sure-footed, 14,000-foot mountain-climbing Incan Llamas. It's as if humans, as a group, seem to emulate the characteristics of specific indigenous animals, adapting to their positive traits like a subconscious survival mechanism.

But what about indigenous city dwellers? Rats, pigeons, alley cats and dogs, and falcons inhabit most of our sky-scrapered habitats, and the indigenous people of these places emulate the characteristics of these creatures in a beautifully orchestrated social tapestry. Ratso Rizzo, stool pigeon, and Fritz the cat are only a few examples of indigenous urban human/animal relationships at the lower-class level. Bums could be considered cockroaches. The falcons that inhabit the highest part of the skyscrapers, that pinnacle pie-in-the-sky for the extreme social elite, can be inhabited only by the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and the rest of their NWO festering ilk with Wall Street executives, bankers, and assorted financial leeches represented by sparrows.

Shit, I can write a whole book on this stuff!