Balder started
an IPS thread on totem candidates for trans-lineage spiritual practices. He started with the magpie with good justification. Another possibility, though not as aesthetically pleasing, is the bottom
feeding flounder. They take the left overs from all the others and
therefrom make sustenance. Leftovers metaphorically might be the
marginalized, what is left out or ignored, including the waste. Perhaps the ugly is better to indicate this is not a pretty
affair?
Speaking of waste, I'm reminded of those that collect garbage and therewith make art objects. Like
this page.
One example: note the shadow. I like the metaphor of the shadow here
being what is beautiful underneath the appearance of outward ugliness, the mysterious
withdrawn.
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