{roe} deer           
                                
                                
                                    
                                          
                                          
 [picture of a deer  head,  in a  garland 
         woven of various grasses.        
 the  deer has  a  crown of rowan, and is 
         looking at the viewer.]          
                                          
                                     
                               
                                     
                                          
 in  the north, the deer is often used as 
 a  symbol  for the  forest's  agency, or 
    its self-knowledge. watching eyes.    
                                          
 warmer regions  instead  ascribe it  the 
 knife  (teeth, rumors  of violence),  or 
    obsession (unblinking eyes, always    
      awake, scrapie-like behavior).      
                                          
                                     
                               
                                     
                                          
 the deer is a cross between a  horse and 
 a  dog.  it  bears  a resemblance  to  a 
 young    salix   tree,   and    has    a 
     sweet-smelling nose, like honey.     
                                          
 the horns of  a deer is called  antlers. 
 they have  a  complex fractal shape, and 
 are  believed  to  enable  the  deer  to 
 "fold" through passages which should  be 
 too  narrow for  them. antlers from dead 
 deer   seem   to   lose   this    power. 
                                          
 a deer's heart has  two chambers,  where 
 it stores  all the  secrets it might see 
 during the  course  of it's  life.  with 
 age  the  secrets  will  harden  into  a 
    caramellized structure, which will    
 eventually block the  flow of blood, and 
              kill the deer.              
                                          
                                     
                               
                                     
                                          
 [picture of a  deer head.  from  the far 
 side,   looking  the  other   way.   its 
          antlers are bloodied.]