Cygnus Bewickii = Zwergschwan/= keltische Göttin./= Götter-/= Todesbote. Vögel.
Vergleich: Siehe: Aves: + Wasservögel: + Cygnus cygnus
Schwarzen Schwans so nennt man -seit dem gleichnamigen Bestseller von Nassim Nicholas Taleb- ein höchst unwahrscheinliches, kaum vorhersehbares Ereignis.
Name erinnert an den berühmten Beispielsatz des Philosophen Karl Popper »Alle Schwäne sind weiß«, der so lange gilt, bis ihn eine einzige Ausnahme falsifiziert.
[JJ Kleber]
Essenz: hat die Trauer bis tiefschwarze Verzweiflung aller Schwäne, aber im Gegensatz zu Cyg-c noch Anteile von Freude (sich schön Kleiden); auch Ursache der tiefen Trauer ist hier eher Abusus (sexuell/psychisch/Misshandlung), der nicht hinter sich gelassen werden kann; fühlen sich nicht akzeptiert (willkommen) in der Bezugs-Gruppe
o. Gesellschaft, aber auch Angst als Teil der Gruppe eigene Integrität (Wahrheitserkenntnis) und Macht zu verlieren.
Eingeschränkt: durch Bindung (nicht Vergessen) von Misshandlung
Leitsymptome: innerer Widerstreit von Wunsch nach Gruppenzugehörigkeit und dem Wunsch nach allein sein (auch Mod. > allein);
in traurigen Gedanken an frühere Misshandlung (Nat-m.).
Empfindungen: fühlt sich eingesperrt + erstickt im Haus und frei + entfaltet im Freien (DD. Cyg-n.); „Wie etwas verloren zu haben“ ohne genau zu wissen was;
„Als ob hässlich/schmutzig zu sein“ (DD.: Cygn-c. vor allem schmutzig, generell Anserinae), und deshalb von Gruppe nicht akzeptiert (nach dem Mittel findet sich schön)
Pathologie: Hals + Mund (Entzündung/Ulcera/“Wie Schleim“/Schwellung); grippale Infekte mit Gliederschmerz + Schwere; Abdomen (Auftreibung/Krämpfe)
Apollo/Eros
The Bewick Swan is smaller and lighter than the Whooper Swan. The beak is
yellower and Bewick Swans can be recognised as individuals from their beak
patterning,
which is highly characteristic.
Their migration pattern is similar to the Whooper Swans. Breeding
grounds are slightly further north, in the arctic tundra of Russia. From there
the Western population
migrate to England, Ireland, Denmark, Germany and Holland, and a few to
the Caspian Sea, while the Eastern population go to China, Korea and Japan.
Swans are long
lived, and the same swans have been observed to return to Slimbridge
annually for as long as 27 years, and in captivity they have lived for 34
years. Like their own space
and tend to avoid the more crowded winter resorts. They have recently
abandoned some of their former resorts which been taken over by Whoopers, who
tend to congregate in larger numbers.
The swans are gregarious during the winter months, congregating in
extended family groups. At Slimbridge, the larger and longer established family
groups occupy the best feeding positions on the lake. The most recent clutch of
cygnets tend to stay together with the parents, whereas older siblings will
roam further away, but if there is a fight,
all the family members will get together and support the male by
gathering round closely and gesturing and vocalising aggressively. These fights
are quite dramatic to watch, but subside a few weeks into the season, once the
pecking order is established, after which the flock appears to live together
comparatively peacefully. During the breeding season the paired birds need as
much as a square kilometre of space to themselves and again will defend this
territory aggressively.
Food was an issue in the proving. The Swans need to put on weight in the
winter to prepare for the flight to Russia and to be in good condition for breeding,
and in summer, the cygnets have only 2-3 months to grow big and strong enough
to survive the flight back to the winter feeding grounds. During winters, when
there is a swan catch at the beginning and the end of the season, they have
been observed to have put on about 2 kilos in weight, 1/3 of their body weight.
Swans live mainly on plants, water weeds and tubers growing around the water,
and they may also consume pond animals, such as tadpoles that live around the
weeds and crustaceans if they are feeding in the estuary. They particularly
love the mosquito larvae that abound on the tundra in summer. They are thickly
feathered and float quite high up in the water; their long necks enable them
to feed below water and occasionally they swim just below the surface,
but they do not dive. They need a certain amount of grit in their gizzards for
digestion, and this makes them vulnerable to eating lead shot lying on the
river banks or lead weights from fishing baits. Lead poisoning is one of the
greatest killers, after human hunters.
They may also be killed by cold, starvation, animal predators, such as
foxes, and overhead cables.
It takes up to five years for the cygnets to reach sexual maturity,
during which time they may start to make "alliances" but these do not
necessarily last. Mating takes place
on the flight back to Russia This involves an elaborate dance, during
which they bob their heads in and out of the water, rub necks and make a lot of
noise. Actual copulation
is relatively short and is followed by a "triumph dance"
during which the birds lift up in the water and arch their necks towards each
other. Swans who live freely pair for life, never changing partner unless their
spouse dies. An exception to this has only once been observed in free swans in
the last 20 years, when a pair failed to breed consistently
for seven years, after which the female took a new partner and bred
successfully. They tend to breed more successfully the longer they have been
together. On arrival in the breeding grounds, the female builds a nest straight
away on a base of reed stems, lined with moss, feathers and down. Often, they
will repair last years nest. Even if there
is still snow on the ground when they arrive, they will sit and wait for
the thaw in almost exactly the same spot where their nest was the previous year
They continue to fly around while they are laying, flying in circles as a pair,
morning and evening, but once the eggs are laid they brood continuously for
28-30 days. The swans lay up to five eggs which are much larger than those of
other swans Both partners will brood the eggs, but it is more commonly the
female, while the male guards the territory. Swans show great dedication as
parents. They brood with persistence. Mute swans have been persuaded to sit on
an abandoned clutch of eggs, after brooding their own, for a total of about
50 days. At Slimbridge, a young bird crashed into a tree while landing
after the flight from Siberia during storms one winter and was badly injured in
the chest, breaking its sternum. The parents took it in turns to sit with it
constantly until it died about 10 days later. After the cygnets are hatched,
they are brooded until their feathers have dried and then led to the water.
During this time, adult swans moult their feathers. Bewick pairs both moult at
the same time, which leaves them relatively unprotected, as they cannot fly.
The swans fly back to the wintering grounds together as a family group,
flying in a V formation with the strongest bird at the head of the V. They fly
mainly at night and make habitual stop in certain places, where again they are
observed year after year. They stop mainly to rest and feed only briefly,
though they will feed more as they approach their destination. They are thought
to orient themselves by the stars as well as coastlines.
The Bewick swans have frequented the wildfowl reserve in Slimbridge ever
since Peter Scott encouraged them to settle there by feeding them regularly in winter
and preventing the lake from freezing over. Slimbridge also acts
as a centre where data is collected about the swans during their journey
to the breeding grounds and from Russia. Every year the swans are caught during
the coldest part
of the season. They are accustomed to being fed morning and evening in a
certain part of the lake where there is a large netting funnel. On the day of
the catch they are driven into the narrow part of the funnel and then it is
closed off. The swans are then caught by helpers who put them
in straight jackets which pinion their wings to their sides, thus
immobilising them. Then they are ringed, weighed, measured, x-rayed (to detect
lead shot) and blood samples are taken. Then they are released. The feather for
the proving was left in her jacket by a female swan named Chirpy, whose mate,
Laugh, is one of the swans that has been coming to Slimbridge the longest.
One of the provers had a dream of driving fast up a road where the walls
either side became narrower and narrower, and finally the end was blocked.
Another prover had
a dream of a house where the door had been walled up and she was
indignant about it. I wondered if these dreams were a reflection of the way the
swans were caught.
Repertory:
Mind:
Ailments from cares, worries
Anger [< full moon/with herself/with enjoyment/at trifles/violent
(shrieking and biting)]
Anxiety (about travelling)/Fear (of opinion of others/of work)/Fearless
in spite of danger
Ardent
Awkward (strikes against things)
Desires to remain in bed
Biting
Brooding
Bulimia
Busy
Censorious
Chaotic
Cheerful [and sadness (with weeping)]
Clarity of mind (as to his identity and personal boundaries)
Company aversion to (and desire for solitude)/desire for (of the group)
Concentration difficult
Confident/want of self-confidence
Confusion of mind [as to his identity (and personal boundaries/sense of
duality)/loses his way in well-known streets]
Contemptuous
Content
Cursing
Defiant
Delusions - she were an outsider/hills are steeper when walking/her center
is full of relentless hatred and blackness/is not appreciated/being beaten/is a
bird flying and wheeling/under a thick blanket/body looks [hideously ugly (for
one split second she saw herself in the mirror and was normal quite slim and
attractive even)]/conspiracies against him (by God)/is despised/hears Lucifer
chuckling/is dirty (is cruel and unworthy)/everything will fail/fingers are
shrunk, short and stubby/floating (away from herself/in air)/flying (and
wheeling)/is forsaken (and is an outsider)/is friendless/ground closer when
walking/heart is giant and/is a hunter/is insulted/one's space is being
invaded/is lost (in the woods/”As if in a crowd”)/is ostracized/is deprived of
sleep/is trapped (in a spider's web/about to be/in the underworld)/was turning
in a circle/world is a brick wall on which she is hanging by her
fingernails/looks wretched [looking in a mirror (but for a split second she
looks beautiful)]/has suffered wrong
Desires unattainable things
Despair
Detached
Discouraged
Wants to dress ridiculously
Dullness
Ecstasy [sublime (in nature)]
Ennui, tedium
Attempts to escape (wants to get out of the house)
Estranged from - friends and relatives/society
Exaggerating
Excitement (on waking)
Exhilaration
Fastidious
Forgetful
Forsaken feeling (> solitude)/sensation of isolation (and of being an
outsider/in company)
Frivolous
Hatred (of men)
Haughty
Hurry/haste
Hysteria
Indignation (with rage)
Industrious (mania for work - desire to finish his work)
Insightful
Introspection
Irritably (in the house/towards own children/from noise/travelling)
Jealousy
Joy
Lascivious (lustful attracted to everyone)
Longing for - intimacy/when alone for communion with God
Looking at the stars in the night sky (Venus)
Exalted love
Ludicrous, things seem
Magnanimous
Malicious
Weakness of memory
Merging of self with one's environment
Mood changeable (sudden)
Loves Nature
Obstinate, headstrong
Playful (dressing up)
Positiveness
Quarrelsome
Quiet disposition
Rage, fury (with biting)
Remorse
Restless (night/busy)
Sadness (after excitement/as if she had lost something/before
menses/with weeping)
Selfishness, egoism
Sensitive - to emotions/to all external impressions/to all internal
impressions/to nature and natural objects
Shrieking (during rage)
Spaced out feeling
Everything seems strange
Suspicious
Taciturn
Thoughts - move in circles/sexual thoughts at every person he sees
Time - appears shorter; passes too quickly
Tranquility, serenity, calmness (while hurried)
Unfeeling, hardhearted (with own family)
Everything seems unreal
Vivacious
Desire to wander
Weeping (evening/>/after anger/with remorse)
Wildness
Wretched - unhappy with her body
Head: Congestion + nausea
Pain - > open air/pressing
Eye: Pain in margin of lids (< closing)
Vision: Yellow before the eyes
Ear: Pain - pulsating/aching - right
“As if stopped”
Nose: Discharge - clear/thick/white
Pain - Inside/aching in bones > pressure/burning, smarting - nostrils
Face: Heat - flushes
Stiffness in lower jaws
Mouth: Flabby tongue
Pain ext. ear.
Ulcers [painful (ext. ear)/white/yellow/on tongue]
Throat: “As if mucus internal”
Pain - sore (evening/ext. ears)
External throat: Pain ext. upward
Pulsation in glands
Stomach: Appetite - increased/ravenous
Vomiting after eating
Abdomen: Gurgling at night
Pain - cramping, griping (ext. upward)/wavelike
Rectum: Urging sudden
Male organs: Sexual desire increased
Female organs: Pain in r. ovary (cramping)
Back: Itching in lumbar region
Pain - “As if as if menses would come on”
Limbs: Awkward (lower limbs - knocks against things)
Contraction of muscles and tendons (joints/hollow of knee/l. foot)
Rash on leg
Itching - Nates/thigh outer side
Pain - aching (in hip > dancing)
Restless legs
Stiffness
Sleep: “As if drugged”
Little need of sleep
Sleepy
Unrefreshing
Dreams: Amorous (dark and sadistic)/anger/colourful
animals/anxious/being attacked/naked or dirty
children/purple/danger/disease/sealed up o. closing
doors/embarrassment/failures/ being fat/fear of high places/flood (streets
flooded)/food (insufficient)/friends (house full of/group
of/meeting)/hiding/high places (looking
down from)/coming home/homosexuality/house (damp and dark/wooden)feels
inadequate/infertility treatment/knives/being laughed at/being a
leper/masturbation/ mirrors/monkeys/nakedness (people)/nightmares/being
ostracised/being an outsider/people [changing into animals/of crowds (and
food)]/playing/being pursued/being pushed out/road o. tunnel narrowing/sexual
(taboos being broken/perversity)/shameful/sleepless/snakes/snow/soldier/being
stabbed/stealing/strange/threatening/travelling through time/being
trapped/traffic jams/being in tune with the universe/unremembered/desire to
urinate/vivid (could not remember)/(openings in) walls/being watched/water
[running (through the house)]/women full of energy, life and power
Chill: “As if internal coldness in bones”
Skin: Dry
Itching morning (on waking)
Generals: (morning on waking)
> open air
Cold feeling (in bones right side)
Energy - changeable/excess of energy in bursts
Food and Drinks: Desires: alcoholic drinks/coffee/farinaceous food/juicy
things/lemonade/mutton/stimulants;
Sensation of heat
Desire to lie curled up
Numbness externally
> rubbing
> short sleep
Stiffness
Stoop shouldered
Desire for tobacco
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum