Win Our Whale Tail Pendant
19 Mar 2014
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A Whale of a Tale Winner
Congratulations to Elizabeth Goggins, with this winning entry:
"For my 41st birthday I talked a friend of mine into joining me in Baha, Mexico to go whale watching. He came from Washington, DC and I, the US Virgin Islands. We had heated discussions the whole way there because many wanted to turn Leguna San Ignacio, the last place on earth grey whale could give birth in peace, into a salt factory. On my birthday I was petting a grey whale and they and their babies were all around us. On the second day as he, a trained opera singer, sang our little fishing boat was surrounded by a mother and calf playing, a school of dolphin and numerous birds flying overhead. Magical, mystical day and he gave up supporting the factory."
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I will share a story about a man called Johan Kaaven who was a Noaidi, who once met a troll whale (Noaidi is a shaman of the Sami people).
Johan Kaaven was fishing with his neigborh Amund Andersen. It was normal that other noaidies sent bad magick to each other. So there was one other noaidi who sent a troll whale towards him, cause he wanted a revenge of something Kaaven had done to him. The whale came faster and faster towards him and the boat. The neighbor Amund rows towards land and Kaaven tries to get the whale away with flailing an oar. Nothing helps! Then Kaaven, in the last hope, calls upon the powers and promises that he will be good and help other people with his powers if the troll whale disappear. And on the same time the troll whale disappeared! After that day, he became a christian man and he helped many people with their illness.
This is a true story of a man who lived from 1835 to 1918. I’ve heard this story from my grandmother. But it is writed in a book about him too.
I was stationed in the Navy up in Oak Harbor, WA. I loved going on the ferry and seeing the Orca whale pods, so magnificent and graceful for such large creatures. Beautiful, great times.
Whales are mystical animals, some Natice Americans of the coast say, the whale symbolizes the breathing of the earth. For me whales are mystical animals can one look into the soul like wolves. The whale stands for power but also for family. Whales are something special.
In a former life I was Napoleon
In 2007, I watched as a pod of whales frolicked there way past the Ferry terminal in Campbell River BC Canada. No fee was paid no boat created chaos as a spectator sport whale watching has become. Just grace and beauty and freedom to do as they pleased. I watched as a representative of the Campbell River Museum in awe and blessed the moment I saw them. I have been drawn to the whale as my totem for three decades now. I have drawn them, I have painted them in ceramic form and I never ever forget the gift of sight that one day as I watched them in the place they call home. Blessings <3