on hawk

some anthropologists have suggested that the dragon is a psychic merger of the three great predators ancient humans were afraid of: serpents and crocodiles, big cats, and birds of prey. so it makes sense that hawk would round out my list of secondary associations, but this one's a little different. for whatever reason, raptors are nearly exclusively an allegorical experience for me.

i'm very interested in falconry and raptor husbandry. to me, the falconer's hawk is another metaphorical tool for coming to grips with existing in human society as i am. cat is when i find it easy, hawk is when it's hard.

in daemonism, i see the eurasian sparrowhawk as being my overall form. it's not all the way there in analytic, it's not all the way there in pullman, but it's strong in both, and in a bunch of personal symbolism, and it's an animal local to me to boot. it's holistic.