Post by Mrs. Darth Vader on Dec 27, 2006 19:29:22 GMT -5
Keynote: Primal energies of strenght, birth creation, destruction and intuition.
Alligators and crocodiles live in and around water. Water is symbolic of the mother energies of giveing birth. They are both associated with the Great Mother. Great Mother is an American Indian term for Mother earth. Water can swallow you up being destructive so again you have the idea of creation destruction. As with alot of totems you have the femine of Shiva. This theme predominates nature because balance and the life death cycles are always there in nature. Birth and death in esoteric terms can mean an initiation. Esoteric death can also be when the old dies makeing way for the new.
Alligators and crocodiles watch the shorelines. This is how they catch their prey. They hang near the game trail and at the water's edge. When an unsuspecting animal comes near the water's edge, both the crocodile and the alligator will jump up and grab the prey. They pull it under the water drowning it rolling it over and over. Some times they will knock out the prey by whipping the tail. Esoterically speaking this patroling the shorelines that seperate land from water also seperates birth from death. Here they are centeries at the gates of knowledge between the relms of birth and death.
Alligators are excellant mothers which is rare in the reptile world. When babbies begin to squeek telling the mother it is time to hatch the mother will actually help them hatch out of the shell. Then she wil carry the liveing young in her mouth to the water makeing sure that they get to the water bettering their chance at survival. The alligator makes a nest for the eggs of mud. The crocodile makes a nest in the sand.
Both alligators and crocodiles are cold blooded. Both balance their body tempetures by sunning themselves until it gets too hot and then they go in the water to cool themselves off. Both alligators are known for sunning themselves.
On the island of Madagascar the crocodiles do not bath in the sun like the rest. They live in these caves. The crocodiles were forced to move to the cave for two main reasons. 1, Madagascar is so dry and desert like the water that is not safely hidden in the caves from the sun simply have dried up. Man has cut down most of the trees. Trees provide shade and keep tropical areas tropical. Remove the trees from a tropical paradise and you turn it into a desert wasteland. Water is essential to the crocodile's survival. 2, The humans who live on the island of Madagascar hunt the crocodiles. So as an extream example of adaptation these crocodiles live in dark caves of Madagascar. Crocodiles have gone through great lengths in order to survive even more than any other animal. This is why crocodiles have survived the longest. According to some scientists, crocodiles were here at the times of the dinosours but are still here now and have survived extinction.
The crocodile is more aggressive than there cousins the alligator. Between the two the crocodile would be more Sith than there more passive cousin the alligator. The crocodile has a tooth on the bottom jaw that jets out. The crocodile has a more pointed jaw. The alligator is more rounded in the jaw.
Alligators and crocodiles live in and around water. Water is symbolic of the mother energies of giveing birth. They are both associated with the Great Mother. Great Mother is an American Indian term for Mother earth. Water can swallow you up being destructive so again you have the idea of creation destruction. As with alot of totems you have the femine of Shiva. This theme predominates nature because balance and the life death cycles are always there in nature. Birth and death in esoteric terms can mean an initiation. Esoteric death can also be when the old dies makeing way for the new.
Alligators and crocodiles watch the shorelines. This is how they catch their prey. They hang near the game trail and at the water's edge. When an unsuspecting animal comes near the water's edge, both the crocodile and the alligator will jump up and grab the prey. They pull it under the water drowning it rolling it over and over. Some times they will knock out the prey by whipping the tail. Esoterically speaking this patroling the shorelines that seperate land from water also seperates birth from death. Here they are centeries at the gates of knowledge between the relms of birth and death.
Alligators are excellant mothers which is rare in the reptile world. When babbies begin to squeek telling the mother it is time to hatch the mother will actually help them hatch out of the shell. Then she wil carry the liveing young in her mouth to the water makeing sure that they get to the water bettering their chance at survival. The alligator makes a nest for the eggs of mud. The crocodile makes a nest in the sand.
Both alligators and crocodiles are cold blooded. Both balance their body tempetures by sunning themselves until it gets too hot and then they go in the water to cool themselves off. Both alligators are known for sunning themselves.
On the island of Madagascar the crocodiles do not bath in the sun like the rest. They live in these caves. The crocodiles were forced to move to the cave for two main reasons. 1, Madagascar is so dry and desert like the water that is not safely hidden in the caves from the sun simply have dried up. Man has cut down most of the trees. Trees provide shade and keep tropical areas tropical. Remove the trees from a tropical paradise and you turn it into a desert wasteland. Water is essential to the crocodile's survival. 2, The humans who live on the island of Madagascar hunt the crocodiles. So as an extream example of adaptation these crocodiles live in dark caves of Madagascar. Crocodiles have gone through great lengths in order to survive even more than any other animal. This is why crocodiles have survived the longest. According to some scientists, crocodiles were here at the times of the dinosours but are still here now and have survived extinction.
The crocodile is more aggressive than there cousins the alligator. Between the two the crocodile would be more Sith than there more passive cousin the alligator. The crocodile has a tooth on the bottom jaw that jets out. The crocodile has a more pointed jaw. The alligator is more rounded in the jaw.