#Harbors

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Yakutat, Alaska and the Tsiu River

[sumbluespruce]

Colorful places

9/24

[postingcards]

ss kaiser wilhelm ii in new york postmarked 19 sept 1909

[atheostic]

How traditions often begin. lol

[thebowynntradition]

Bowynn Gods: Dylan

Dylan  (Dil-lan)  Dylann is the God of harbors, shores, ports and beaches. A sea god he is the protector of boaters and fishermen and anyone that depends on the sea for livelihood or entertainment.

     Son of Tane and Kauldra, Dylan is seen in one of three forms; either a bash handsome young man; A horse; or what is known as a Hippo-Ichthiocampus (The torso and head of a man, lower part of a dolphin and the front legs of a horse.) Dylan is the supplier of fish for those that are fishermen and shells for those that use them as craft. He is also the controller of tides and waves. One sacred tale speaks of a witch that stole Dylan’s powers to metamorph into his sea forms and he was kidnapped as a boat hand to row and maintain the large vessel. However, he fell into favor with the ship's captain, and they sailed to the island where the witch lived to steal his powers back. This they accomplished but at the cost of the mortal fishermen’s lives. Once he had his immortality back, Dylan changed all his friends into Dolphins and thus populated the sea. Dylan is also the herdsman of Lord Tane's sacred steeds, which are horses of the sea.

     Sacred to Dylan are all the abundances of the ocean; fish, shells, coral, sea mammals, sea birds, sea plants and these all make wonderful offerings to him, as well as incense, of course. Often Dylan is seen enjoying his days on the beach, fishing, swimming and running about, either in human or horse form. At evening Dylan sometimes can be seen camped on the beach by a bonfire, feasting and watching the boats and sunset.

[jscolman]

...the view from lunch.....

Seattle, Winter, 2024.

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Defeated...

[danielkang3397]

[heartnosekid]

a boop from a california harbor seal 🦭 | jays_visions on ig

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Tallinn, Estonia

Taken May 2024

[wuntrum]

the work is mysterious AND important

[dndsettingsinfo]

Airship Harbor [Close-Ups] by Birdie Maps

[postingcards]

"but? it's a ketchikan halibut!" postcard ca. 1930s

[fyanimaldiversity]

Albino harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)

@ René Pop

[tenth-sentence]

That in some cases the sea, instead of spreading out sediment in a uniform sheet, heaps it round submarine rocks and islands, it is hardly possible to doubt, after examining the charts of the West Indies; and that the waves have power to form high and precipitous cliffs, even in land-locked harbours, I have noticed in many parts of South America.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin