Turtle Dreaming
Turtle Dreaming
Turtles symbolize the feminine energy of water and have an important role in mythologies around the world. In most ancient cultures sea turtles were revered and sacred symbols of the feminine and fertility. They are often in creation myths regarding the origin of the earth.
Turtles have lived through the age of the dinosaurs. They survived the earth’s age of ice. Sea Turtles, the true ancients of the world, have been swimming in the oceans for over 2million years. For the first time in all millennia, six out of 7 species are either endangered and or on the verge of extinction, or threatened to become endangered.
As David Tacey, Associate Professor La Trobe University writes,
“When all that is sacred is no longer revered, when the feminine is devalued and the masculine overvalued, we are then an endangered species.”
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Turtle Dreaming #1
EnquireThousands of years ago, in many different cultures in different places on our planet, the turtle was seen as a ‘medicine’ for fertility, associated with the power to heal female diseases.
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Turtle Dreaming #2
EnquireFor many native Americans the thirteen patterns on the turtle’s shell are the thirteen cycles of thirteen moons, the natural rhythms of the planet, the fertility periods of females.
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Turtle Dreaming #3
EnquireIn the Far East, the turtle was considered an animal whose magic united heaven and earth. The turtle as a creation of nature carries its round shell over the ground, like heaven, and has a flat bottom, like earth. With a profile like mountain and the turning motion of its toes, it seemed to be a depiction of heaven and earth changing constantly through the seasons.
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Turtle Dreaming #4
EnquireIn Asia, according to the Hindus, the land on which they lived was the back of a huge ‘Mother Turtle’ floating in a vast primal sea.
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Turtle Dreaming #5
EnquireIn West Africa’s tribes the turtle originated ju-ju and appears in fertility rites representing the feminine to the serpent’s masculine power.
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Turtle Dreaming #6
EnquireAccording to some Chinese legends the divine tortoise Kwei spent 18,000 years directing the formation of the universe, the creation of the earth and the location of the sun, moon and stars.
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Turtle Dreaming #7
EnquireTurtle represents the feminine energy of water. The magical spawn of a sea turtle is a mystery to science. The female sea turtle returns to her birthplace after many years at sea.
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Turtle Dreaming #8
EnquireIn the West, early Christians didn’t like turtles and they viewed them as symbolising evil forces during the war.