And, Wayne got me thinking about dream-catchers with all of his animal talk. I'm not sure if dream-catchers can be made into a paper topic or not. Maybe something along the lines that what the spider has made is more important than the spider itself...animals are representative of something else, and the web represents the spider, which represents something else... I did a little bit of reading on dream-catchers, and one site said that the dream-catchers aren't meant to last, reflecting the temporary state of youth. There comes a time when a child can't be protected from experience and, in fact, needs experience and knowledge to function in an adult world.
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Dionyisus is an interesting god; he is the only God with a mortal parent that is a member of the Greek Pantheon. Another interest note, he is also the God of the theatre and before a performance in Ancient Greece, they would slaughter a pig on stage and sprinkle the blood around to consecrate the ground to Dionyisus
How might the bridge be related to the idea of dreamcatchers? Perhaps, it represents a liminal space, as in a dream; not quite land, not quite air; not quite water, but part of all three. A transitional space between the dayworld and the dreamworld, but not quite in either. Perhaps it has a gatekeeper? A book I'm reading, "The Mourner's Dance," has spent some time discussing the mthological and ritual nature of and need for gatekeepers. Like a dreamcatcher?
By the way, that picture is incredibly beautiful.
Thanks for the compliment on the bridge-in-fog photo, ariana! - Kelly
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