The Relations
The Relations are the physical living beings that share this planet with humans. While mountains, winds, rivers, etc., may certainly be considered as having spirit or being en-souled, they do not live and die the same way mortal persons do.
This page holds information concerning the native species that cohabit the Catskill Mountains/Hudson River bioregion with humans. The base Waincraft model only deals with particular animal groups, called the Tribes. These Tribes are delineated as such due to their traditional European importance and as a physical-world mirror to the hierarchy of the main Otherworld. However, in the glorious and immense diversity of this world, there are certainly going to be spirits and animals that are important to a bioregion that are not one of the main Tribes, and conversely, one of the delineated Tribes may have no species in a particular bioregion (for example, there are no cranes in this bioregion, so the place of Crane is filled by their distant cousin Heron).
Catskill Mountain Waincraft terms this multitude of animal and plant spirits as the Relations, inspired by the Lakota Sioux phrase mitakuye oyasin, "all my relations," recognizing that everything that exists is our kin.
This page holds information concerning the native species that cohabit the Catskill Mountains/Hudson River bioregion with humans. The base Waincraft model only deals with particular animal groups, called the Tribes. These Tribes are delineated as such due to their traditional European importance and as a physical-world mirror to the hierarchy of the main Otherworld. However, in the glorious and immense diversity of this world, there are certainly going to be spirits and animals that are important to a bioregion that are not one of the main Tribes, and conversely, one of the delineated Tribes may have no species in a particular bioregion (for example, there are no cranes in this bioregion, so the place of Crane is filled by their distant cousin Heron).
Catskill Mountain Waincraft terms this multitude of animal and plant spirits as the Relations, inspired by the Lakota Sioux phrase mitakuye oyasin, "all my relations," recognizing that everything that exists is our kin.
Animal KinWaincraft native animals:
White-tailed Deer Snowshoe Hare Black Bear Bobcat Coyote Bullfrog Timber Rattlesnake Red Fox Bald Eagle Great Horned Owl Canadian Goose American Crow Brown Trout Garden Spider Great Blue Heron River Otter Non-Waincraft native animals: Mammals Raccoon Mouse Beaver Bat Shrew Mole Squirrel Woodchuck Weasel Opossum Porcupine Skunk Birds Bluebird Meadowlark Woodpecker Sparrow Turkey Reptiles and Amphibians Turtle Skink Salamander Insects and Others Many numerous species, notably: Butterfly Mayfly Mosquito Ant Beetle Snail Mussel Pike Bass Perch Herring |
Plant Kin
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