Kynes - Bird magic: wisdom of the ancient goddess for pagans and wiccans

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Bird Magic: Wisdom of the Ancient Goddess for Pagans & Wiccans 2016 by Sandra Kynes.

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Names: Kynes, Sandra,

Title: Bird magic : wisdom of the ancient goddess for pagans and wiccans / by

Sandra Kynes.

Description: First Edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2016. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015037456 (print) | LCCN 2016006256 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738748641 | ISBN 9780738749310 ()

Subjects: LCSH: Goddess religion. | Birds. | Witchcraft. | Wiccans. |

Neopaganism. | Magic.

Classification: LCC BL473.5 .K96 2016 (print) | LCC BL473.5 (ebook) | DDC

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Contents

PART ONE: THE PRACTICES

: Birds and Divinity

: Birds in Spiritual Practices and Symbolism

: Come from Her: Life-Giver and Creatrix

: Connecting with the Life-Giver and Creatrix

: Return to Her: Death-Wielder and Regeneratrix

Connecting with the Death-Wielder/Regeneratrix

: Are Her: Transformer and Eternal Spirit

: Connecting with the Transformer and Eternal Spirit

: Bird Guides and Messages

: Feathers

PART TWO: THE PROFILES

Black-Footed Albatross, Snowy Albatross

Brewers Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Red-Winged Blackbird

Eastern Bluebird, Mountain Bluebird

Northern Cardinal

Black-Capped Chickadee, Carolina Chickadee, Mountain Chickadee

Domestic Chicken

Double-Crested Cormorant, Great Cormorant

Sandhill Crane, Whooping Crane

American Crow

Black-Billed Cuckoo, Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Mourning Dove

American Pekin Duck, Mallard, Wood Duck

Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle

Great Egret, Snowy Egret

American Kestrel, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon

House Finch, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch

American Flamingo

Canada Goose, Snow Goose

Dusky Grouse, Ruffed Grouse

Coopers Hawk, Red-Tailed Hawk

Great Blue Heron, Green Heron

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird

Glossy Ibis, White Ibis, White-Faced Ibis

Blue Jay, Stellers Jay

Belted Kingfisher

Horned Lark, Eastern Meadowlark, Western Meadowlark

Common Loon

Black-Billed Magpie

Northern Mockingbird

Common Nighthawk, Eastern Whip-Poor-Will, Common Poorwill

Red-Breasted Nuthatch, White-Breasted Nuthatch

Baltimore Oriole, Bullocks Oriole

Barn Owl, Great Horned Owl, Long-Eared Owl, Snowy Owl

African Gray Parrot, Yellow-Headed Parrot, American Parakeet

Gray Partridge

Blue Peafowl

American White Pelican, Brown Pelican

Blue Penguin, Emperor Penguin

Ring-Necked Pheasant

Rock Pigeon

California Quail, Northern Bobwhite

Common Raven

Greater Roadrunner

American Robin

Least Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Killdeer

Herring Gull, Ring-Billed Gull

House Sparrow, Song Sparrow

European Starling

Wood Stork

Barn Swallow, Chimney Swift, White-Throated Swift

Mute Swan, Trumpeter Swan, Tundra Swan

Wild Turkey

Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture

Bohemian Waxwing, Cedar Waxwing

Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker

House Wren

: Chronology

: Sabbats and Deities

There is nothing separate from her;
All things come from her, return to her, and are her.

. Wendy Doniger, ed., Earth Mother, Merriam-Websters Encyclopedia of World Religions (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1999), 308.

Introduction

The ancient goddess-worshipping cultures of Europe have fascinated me for a long time, and I have spent more than twenty years researching them because they speak to the root of my beliefs as a Pagan. Throughout the years, the intention of my reading and research has been to personalize the essence of the Great Goddess for my own spiritual practice. Books about the Goddess by archaeologist and professor Marija Gimbutas sparked a major shift in how many of us regard the Divine. Even though scholars debate about the civilization of Old Europe as portrayed by Gimbutas, her work is far from romantic mysticism. She brought to light the fact that civilization started long before the time of the Greeks and the Egyptians, and that it was centered on the concept of a Great Mother Goddess.

Part of this book actually started out as a workshop that I presented in the late 1990s that was based on the work of Gimbutas. Although I had wanted to turn the workshop material into a book then, I felt something was missing. I had a sense that there was a basic, important connection that I had not made.