Saturday, October 6, 2007

Elephant, Fish, Goose

I see I have not reported on the last few chapters of The Wise Enchanter. E is for Elephant. This was very funny because they brought in the silent E this way. :-) The picture is somewhat strange though (it came to one of the children in a dream) -- an elephant is shown from the side climbing up a tree. His body forms the main upward thrust and the three spokes are, respectively, the trunk, the front leg, and the back leg.

F is a Flying Fish. He is leaping out of the water with his fin making the little spoke. I believe that F is Fish in The Waldorf Alphabet Book as well.

G is for Goose. In this case, the Goose does not make the G with his entire body; the G is the upper curve of the goose (neck and upper body) and the inward spoke is the goose holding his front leg out in front of him, like a hand, and he is holding a gemstone on it. G is for Goose is one of the most common Waldorfisms (unlike some letters, where you see a lot of variety in how it is interpreted) and if you are doing Grimms' Fairy Tales, you almost always do "The Goose-Girl" for this one.

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