YEEESSSS!!!!

[niankhsekhmet]

A'a Mut!

Mut! Mut! Mut!!!

The Vultures are back!!!! *does the happy dance*

I know most of you who know me do not understand my fixation with these large, soaring, oft-considered-ugly-but-to-me-they-are-gorgeous birds. In the area in which I live. The certain arrival of warm weather is marked by their reappearance in the skies. By my experience, they are far more reliable than Phil, the Groundhog - or the Farmer's Almanac.

Vultures are also symbolic of the Ancient Egyptian Goddesses Mut, which intimately ties to Sekhmet. The reappearance of the vultures in the skies also interestingly coincides with the Return of Sekhmet and HetHert to the Two Lands.

and there was much rejoicing

Yay!!!!

Comments

[maai.livejournal.com]

OH beleive me sis, I understand!!!! They are so magestic. I didn't know they came alongside the warm weather.

I used to be able to tell when it was getting cold inland in SoCal because the seagulls would come in from the beach! Noone beleived me, but that pattern held with every passing year.

[ikhet.livejournal.com]

I agree Vultures ate qwught Magestic birds and are Undoutuntly have been placed in the came catagory as the equly Majestic Domestic Corvid (crows) Becuse both have the diatary Propencity towards Carieon it always seems as if out most majestic creatues are loked down upon

Ikhet

Oh I agree

[niankhsekhmet.livejournal.com]

And jackals, as well, are considered carrion eaters- but they all three serve a necessary function in the wild. Can we imagine the horrid state of the environment, if we didnt have these beasts helping break down the dead things that lie around?

I once saw a very large turkey vulture dining on a raccoon that had been hit by a car, and it was in the middle of the road. She was 'cloaking' her breakfast with her wings, and I swear, with her wing span, she was bigger than the black Geo Metro that I was driving!! I passed within ten feet of her before she took off, only to come back again after I had passed.

[bellacrow.livejournal.com]

*delighted laugh*

I *heart* the vultures, always have since I first met them here in the bay area.

Just watching them soar makes me smile

[shannybug.livejournal.com]

Hi! I found your journal via bellacrow's and djedet's journals and I like what you have to say. I'm adding you to my frinds list. I hope you don't mind.

We have plenty of beautiful vultures down here where I live. We have a water tower where they congregate late in the day. It always loks like they are holding a secret council up there. They are very wonderful birds!

[niankhsekhmet.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't mind at all! Thank you for adding me to your friends! :-) I will add you, too.

One morning I was driving one of our dogs to the vet, and I saw like three vultures sitting along the fenceline on the fence posts about 10 feet apart, their wings outstretched to dry or warm in the sun, it was just so cool!