The Whole Rabbit The Spiritual Fool: Secrets of the Clowns!
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Pressurize the seltzer, polish up your big red nose and prepare your face for pie because on this week’s episode we’re discussing not just the exceedingly ancient history of clowns but their strangely coherent set of symbols and mythology spanning multiple time periods and cultures concluding with the Heyoka of the Native American Sioux tribes. In the extended show we discuss what clowns have to do with Egyptian deities, the religion of Thelema, Carl Jung and of course the Fool in the Tarot.
In this week’s episode we discuss:
Egyptian Dwarves
Occupational Hazards
Yu-Sze, Chinese Clown
Roman Clowns
The Circus
Catholic Feast of Fools
Juggalos
Kokapelli Man
Koshare of the Pueblo Indians
Heyoka of the Sioux
In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
The Egyptian Bes
The Stele of Revealing
Harpocrates, Divine Child
Ma’at, Goddess of Justice
0 vs. 1
Book of the Law Numerology
The Milk of Hathoor
Wepwawet, Opener of the Way
Hobo Clowns
The Hermit and Lamed
The Jungian Fool
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Sources:
Daneg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfs_and_pygmies_in_ancient_Egypt
Royal Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt:
http://www.saac.archeo.uj.edu.pl/documents/16319255/c7f6ef3e-6e4f-4065-83fd-654a821a294e
& https://www.academia.edu/30055582/Historical_Review_Dwarfs_in_Ancient_Egypt
& https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2ef5/d65cddfa49fe160de2520274d2272de24180.pdf
Stupidus:
https://books.openedition.org/pufr/8575?lang=en
https://www.clownbluey.co.uk/more-info/clown-history
Heyoka:
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=nebanthro
Koshare:
https://medium.com/dose/the-native-american-clowns-who-bit-the-heads-off-live-mice-ccc909123b97
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/37968#/summary
Tramp and Hobo Clown History:
https://michaelgiovinco.com/2016/05/12/hobo-and-tramp-history-