The Grouse and the Goddess

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Philosophy

4.8 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and we are taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival of the Northern Flicker mean, in augury? How has the Triple Goddess survived relentless persecution by the patriarchal religions of bureaucracy? And why did Benjamin Franklin adore the wild turkey? Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne.

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0:00.0	Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.
0:14.7	Night has fallen on the desert and is just one of those moments in time.
0:23.4	Moments in history.
0:35.0	When the world is shaking off all kinds of stuff that no longer has a will to exist.
0:37.5	It's cyclical, but nobody knows where we are in the cycle, and which cycle.
0:46.4	It becomes a little more clear about 15 years on the other side.
0:54.3	All we know for certain is that these are the days of the turkeys.
1:05.2	Which is an insult to turkeys, really.
1:14.2	Benjamin salt to turkeys, really. Benjamin Franklin said this about the turkey and a letter to his daughter, Sarah,
1:20.6	preserved in the National Archives.
1:26.5	For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country.
1:35.5	He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
1:45.4	The turkey is, in comparison, a much more respectable bird and with all a true original native
1:53.2	of America.
1:55.8	Eagles have been found in all countries, but the Turkey was peculiar to ours.
2:03.6	The first of the species seen in Europe being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada
2:10.6	and served up at the wedding table of Charles the Ninth.
2:20.3	He of Charles the Ninth. He, the turkey, not Charles the knife.
2:25.3	He is, besides, though a little vain and silly tis true,
2:30.3	but not the worst emblem for that.
2:33.3	A bird of courage and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British guards who should presume to invade his farm yard with a red coat on.
2:49.0	The proud cousin of the turkey is, of course, our own greater sage grouse.
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