[minxoto]

Hi everyone :-)

I tend to pull the card "Bat" when I use the Medicine Cards that I have.

The keyword is rebirth, but I wonder if that really is right?

In my opinion The Bat never really gets born, since it returns to it's safe cave (womb, uterus), every morning.

Or is it a symbol of eternal life?

I'm thinking of the ritual words that the priests in Norway says during funerals: "From earth have you become. To earth you will be. From earth you will resurrect."

I wonder if that is so? I don't understand this.

I'm also thinking of the hindu ritual from the city of Varanasi in India where they set dead people and their corpses on fire on a raft on Ganges river - to prevent the dead person from getting reborn so they get out of the circle of incarnations.

Is that to burn in hell? Is the option a bat and rebirth?

I wonder if the one is no better than the other?

It makes me think of the song "Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd:

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
And how we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here