The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

[Stuart]

[Martin]

Foxes are associated with guile and cunning, one could draw a parallel with Hermes the trickster. Guiding lights maintained by hermits come to mind.

Stars are also guides of course.

[Donna]

[hvered]

Foxes are usually associated with the colour red, but the tip of the tail (sorry, brush) is white. It's the tail that's kept as a trophy I think at the end of a hunt. Red and white are very Megalithic colours.

The emphasis on tails reminds me of ermine whose black-tipped tails feature in heraldry and royal robes.

[Donna]

Silver foxes have been studied by Russian scientists for several decades. A palaeontologist told me recently that due to the Russian breeding programme the foxes have gained (or lost) certain characteristics. He cited 'floppy ears' which are a characteristic of puppies. They seem to have regressed to cubhood. But they're not really white, as 'silver' indicates.

Whiteness tends to be associated with purity though other cultures such as the Chinese have different interpretations e.g. death.

[Maribel]

[Penny]

[Maribel]

Chalk is brilliantly white, some people claim that Albion or the old word for Britain means white land or somesuch, perhaps from the white cliffs on the south coast, a major landmark for travellers from the Continent. Interestingly the Greek word for bronze is chalko which is almost the same as chalk. The dictionary says chalk comes from khalix meaning pebbes and that the Latin for chalk is creta.

There may be a link between creta and Crete where chalk is still quarried.

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