This morning, I found myself browsing a website about donkey as a spirit animal. As I reading the page, it stuck to me that the donkey may be a powerful symbol for our emotional lives.
In Greek mythology, a braying donkey woke the goddess Hestia, thereby saving her from being raped by the god, Priapus.
Similarly, in Bamidbar, a donkey saves the Moabite prophet, Bilaam, from approaching an angel who is wielding a sword with the intention of killing Bilaam. Re-reading this story, I was struck, pardon the pun, by how the prophet kept beating his donkey-- his body wisdom-- while the donkey continued to try to warn him of the imminent danger.
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| Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836. |
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