Lichtasenland Edition 1/2021

C R E A T I V E F O R C E
Projects
at Lichtasenthal
The animals inside
the valley
FALLOW DEER
The white stag pleases the eye anew every day.
The group of deer looks over to visitors and are
also interested in people. Sometimes they are a
little shy, but this passes after a few minutes.
They are the typical representatives of the game
in the Thuringian Forest. They enliven the
meadows with their noble gait and upright
heads. When the stags shed their antlers, they
can be used for buttons, decorative carvings and
many other things. The stag itself gets new
antlers, which become larger than the previous
ones. The white stag is also a mystical deer.
THE SHEEP
They work diligently at "mowing" (= "mähen" -
like the sound of a sheep in German) and
keeping the meadows in the nature reserve in
order. In spring around Easter there were lambs
to greet. The woolly helpers can be noisy at any
age. They enrich the soil organisms. With them
come the dung beetle and help to create good
soil.
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS
The "Indian runners" in a colourful troop are now
waiting to be used as assistant gardeners. They
are good snail eaters and help to make the salad
and vegetable harvest bigger. They love a pond
to splash around in and are otherwise very
independent in their search for food.
"But everything he had seen strengthened his conviction: That man - on the
one hand related to the beasts of the field, on the other to the higher beings
and the Godhead itself - was just as incapable of being a mere animal as a
mere spirit; but that he only lived according to his nature when he always
rose upwards. "
Christoph Martin Wieland
(from "Stories of Agathon")
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