The Linnunraata, a Finnish folktale, describes the Milky Way as the migratory path of white swans, also known as “Soul Carriers” who bring a human soul to the body at the moment of birth, and carry the soul away at the moment of death towards Lintukoto, the home of the birds. A beautiful story that folds us back into the feathered wings of a universe that mothers us.
Read MoreBear Mother's Arms: Where Elder Hands Cradle Cubs & Kinship Blossoms
The story of how hunter and prey, human and wild, soften into kinship is as old as time, carried quietly through our many lineages and held deep within the marrow of our bones. This Inuit telling lives as a relic of our shared humanity, and a sacred act of remembrance: of mothering the wild, and being mothered in return, in a world that has long since forgotten how.
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