My late Persephone’s death anniversary was this Tuesday. Though I believe she must be a princess somewhere, I still lament for her. I need a new cat; her absence is making me mad, I need to move on.
Once I’d died, Śiva, Brahmā too, / and Viṣnu sat to ponder so, |
Contemplating aloud how to / send me hither: a row fiery. ||
Lo: I was true to my dharma / and social debts so faithfully, |
I greeted every man alive / and paid each deity what he claimed. ||
Verily, I greeted every / person I met a-smiling so, |
Befriending all; alas, Viṣnu said / that yea, I should be born a man. ||
However, to a man what’s due / I gave, but while mocking foully, |
All that I could see in single looks, / and then went to gossip about. ||
In secrecy mocking every / rule and code of the great dharma; |
To gods and kings—purest, true scorn; / thus quoth Śiva: ‘He is a cat.’ ||
They argued on, egad, Viṣnu / insulting Śiva quite crudely, |
And Śiva Viṣnu, then: ‘Enough!’ / quoth Brahmā, and declared he thus. ||
‘Though he followed human traits, he / disrespected the great dharma, |
Shutting self from fellow humans / as many mysterious a cat.||
Thus I resolved: we give him due / reward at once—a soul manly, |
A spirit of a cat,’ so now / in this form I do roam the earth. ||
I shall now strive to splendid be / in moral codes and the right deed do, |
So that I shall be born again / as one, not a human feline. ||
An Cat Duḃ, 17.1.12
Recently I’ve been thinking about the Furry Fandom and came to the conclusion we don’t honour our origins enough. Look it up on Wikipedia: the origin on the Fandom is in arts, but now if one should sign up to FurAffinity or InkBunny (just visiting as a quest won’t do) will show one mind-boggling amounts of pornography, which is a shame, really. If I were an artist I’d draw more respectable art myself, but instead, I can make a list of ideas for Furry art:
Scenes from Ysengrimus. (In particular the scene when Reinardus and Ysengrimus talk after Reinardus fooled him for the first time.)
Interactions between anthropomorphic Hindu and Egyptian deities (Hanumān playing dice with Anubis while Ganeśa keeps records, for instance).
Artistic depictions of the roles of animals in human society via role reversals.
Depictions of historic, mythic, and literary characters as Furry ones, in the same manner humans are.
Fuck it, it’s too late now. I can’t think of anything properly. All I can imagine is the drawing I requested of my late Persephone as the Boddhisattva Avalokiteśvara.
Good night.
Unum diem...
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