Arkadia

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Arkadia

Where The Wild Things Are!

Is there a part of you that runs free beneath the moon on all fours? Celebrate your inner animal in the tangled forests and mountains of Arkadia.

Arkadia is the home of all therianthropes. Here, the werecats of Sabertooth's Pride prowl the night. Whether you roar, purr, or howl, Arkadia welcomes you!

That Animal Connection

In ancient times, Arkadia was the home of humans who could assume the shapes of beasts. This territory is where our therianthropic community thrives. The Pride rule through Thor and Muninn, but were-beasts of all types are welcome here.

What is your connection to the Beast Within?

A study of religion and ritual suggests that such things are hard-wired into human beings. Some of the reasons cited were the pervasiveness of religion and that some form of religion or myth has been around as long as there have been people. This can also be said to be true about therianthropy. Every culture on earth has a were-animal legend. Animal-headed figures have been depicted on the earliest known cave paintings. The idea of a beast within, of humans who can become animals, is hard-wired into us.

In Arkadia, we honor the goddesses Artemis, Freya, Bast, and Sekhmet as well as all the gods and goddesses who have that link to the wild forces of nature.

Yet not everyone acknowledges their inate Animal Nature. The connection to the Inner Beast can be weak or else ignored.

What is your connection to the Beast Within? We ask this in all seriousness, knowing that the answers will be varied. Some of you find your beast through meditation or dream while still others of you routinely shift. The shift can be physical or psychic (perceptional) as long as there is a definite change from the ordinary human. You are the beast and the beast is you. No matter what, the animal is always beneath the surface. This is what makes you part of Arkadia.

Song of the Wereocelot

by Muninn

On the surface, there is freckled flesh,

Beneath there is spotted fur.

Blue eyes beneath black lashes

Hide green slit pupil eyes

Gleaming in the darkness.

When I speak words,

A throbbing purr resonates,

Sometimes becoming a snarl when

The passions shift their context.

I have a human existence,

I have an ocelot life.

Two beings yet

Never separate,

We are comfortable in each other’s skin.

In this savage harmony,

I am content.

And as I sleep in a soft bed,

I am running through the rainforest

Bounding along thick tree branches.

One with the night,

I am on the prowl

Looking for prey.

Pleasant dreams

The Age of Thaar: A Therianthropic Myth

In the first age, the sun was a mighty sabertooth named Thaar and the moon was a sleek ocelot-like cat named Maushesat. Thaar stalked the daytime skies restlessly, for he could smell the scent of Maushesat and he was lonely. Maushesat raced across the nighttime skies searching for a mate as well, but Thaar was always tantalizingly out of reach.

In those days, people were not like they are today. What was human was curled inside beasts and all reason was hidden beneath fangs, fur, and claws. The beasts feared Thaar and kept hidden in the forests. Only at night, beneath the eyes of Maushesat, would the beast-folk venture from the forests.

But Maushesat was not pleased with the beast-folk. She clawed at the sky and left little rips in the blackness. These stars left a message for Thaar.

Thaar saw what his mate had clawed into the sky. He gave a mighty roar. Some of the beasts were so frightened that they ran from the forests. Thaar gobbled them up. Then he roared again and some were so frightened that they turned inside out. They became the first therianthropes: human in appearance but with their beast curled inside them.

At sunset, Thaar roared a third time. He left scat on the western mountains. The scat reformed into humans, but the beast-part of them had been thoroughly digested by the Great Sabertooth. Thus were the first true humans brought into the world.

When Maushesat looked down, she saw the two kinds of humans and was pleased. Her purring excited the therianthropes and they found that they could change back into beasts whenever there was moonlight. She marked them as her own, blessed by the glow of her eyes.

But when the day came, the therianthropes took human form again...for they were still frightened of Thaar.

by Muninn

All text content and research on Sabertooth's Pride and the SP linked sites were created by Muninn of Hercules Invictus unless otherwise credited.

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