Legend: Rabbit/Hare

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The Rabbit and the Hare are almost interchangeable for many, So they are listed here together. One of the animals on the Magical Mystery Tour was a Hare, the White Rabbit is core for my Wonderland angle, and then we have the line from Paul McCartney's Band on the Run, "Well, the undertaker drew a heavy sigh seeing no one else had come, And a bell was ringing in the village square for the rabbits on the run." 

Rabbit:"Incredibly fecund, the rabbit is a symbol not only of fertility, but also of sexuality and lust, personified by the "Bunny Girl." "Bun" is an old English word and refers to the distinctive circular shape of the animal's tail. Although the rabbit didn't make it's appearance in the British Isles until the twelfth  century, its prolific breeding habits meant that it was soon prevalent everywhere and it adopted some of the same symbolic meaning as the hare, minus the mystery accorded to the hare as the more elusive nocturnal creature.

Because of its fecundity and gregarious nature, the rabbit is a symbol for peace and love by some Native Americans. There is a courtship ritual called the Rabbit Dance." (ISS)

 Hare: "Because the Hare is a nocturnal creature, she carries all of the symbolism of the moon; light in the darkness, concealed wisdom, arcane information, intuition, and the Goddess. The moon is symbolic of rebirth and resurrection, because of its visible phases, and the hare shares these qualities, too. Significantly, in some parts of the world, the shape of the hare is visible in the face of the moon, further reinforcing the connection between the two.

The hare is renowned for its fertility, and it is in this guise that it is simplified as the Easter Bunny. The springtime goddess Eostre governed over the cycles of fertility, and so her symbol was the egg; hence the chocolate eggs given to children at Easter. [...]

The fact that the animal is not eaten is generally s sign that it has sacred status. [..] Pre-Christian Celtic people similarly regarded the hare as something too sacred to consider eating; they were kept as pets. [...]" (ISS)

" Rabbit, Hare- Guile, Quick-Thinking, Humility, Strengthening Intuition, Releasing Fear, Overcoming the Past, Resolution to Change, Fertility, New Life, Alertness, Nurturing, Rebirth, Balance." <Source>

P.S. I realize I'm getting a little out of order now and again, but I think I'm going to start being ok with a less than Virgo-perfect organization, as I'm coming to realize that this is going to be a set of living documents, and I will find more to add as time moves on, anyways, so, Please visit often! :)

Legend: Night

 Please see the Introduction To Rabbit Hole Legend A-Z post for information about sources and purpose

Night: The song John Lennon wrote for young Julian Lennon, "Good Night" (sung by Ringo Starr) from the White Album, Hard Days Night, The Night Before. Also in relation to Dark Horse, Paul McCartney's No More Lonely Nights, Every Night, Beautiful Night; Wings' When The Night; John Lennon's Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Sleepless Night> (How do you sleep? How?); George Harrison's Last Night, P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night), (Traveling Wilbury's) Where Were You Last Night , Ringo Starr's Night And Day, Woman Of The Night, Tango All Night, Mystery Of The Night (some authored, some just preformed by Ringo, but he was always more the performer than the writer, no? Ringo's music is all in his song choices). 

 "The Greeks personified night as a mother Goddess, Nyx, who was the mother of the sky as well as the daughter of Chaos. Nyx governed all things nocturnal: sleep, dreams, death, night-loving animals, and occult matters. She is depicted being drawn across the dark sky by four black horses, and followed by the Fates and the Furies. This may be the Greek representation of night, bits shared by the other cultures, too; the Mayans used the same hieroglyphic symbol to describe the concepts of night, death and darkness. Latterly, the night has become synonymous with matters belonging to the subconscious, and we speak of a difficult time as being a 'dark night of the soul."

Why is a two-week period known as a 'fortnight' rather than a 'fort-day'? We owe this term to the Welsh/Celtic word for a week, wythnos, which translates as 'eight nights.' According to Caesar, the Celts and the Gauls reckoned time in terms of nights, not days.[...]" (ISS)

"Night is a highly ambivalent symbol, but peace and refuge from care are among its positive emblematic meanings. In art its Greek personification, Nyx, is shown as a winged mother of two children, a white one representing sleep a dark one representing death. Sleep was personified in Greek mythology by a youthful god, Hypnos, who sometimes appears in art wearing a poppy in his hair, symbolizing the narcotic-like tranquility of deep sleep." (1,001S)