mongolian creation myth

in the wors of the mongolian creation myth, there came a wild dog who was blue and grey and whose destiny was imposed on him by the heavens. his mate was a roe deer.

thus begins another love story. the wild dog with his courage and strenght, the doe with her gentleness, intuition and elegance. hunter and hunted meet and love each other. according to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love, there is neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. and loves changes the laws of nature.

in the steppes where i come, the wild dog is seen as a feminine creature. sensitive, capable of hunting because he has honed his insticts, but timid too. he does not use brute force but strategy. courageous, cautious, quick. he can change in a second from a state of ocmplete relaxation to the tension he needs to pounce on his prey.

and what about the doe?

the roe deer has the male attributes of speed and an an understanding of the earth. the two travel along together in their symbolic worlds, two imposiibilities who have found each other, and because they overcome their own natures and their barriers, they make the world possible too. that is the mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures, love is born. in contradiction, love grows in strength. in confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.



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