The symbolism of the Deer

Deer include muntjac, red deer, fallow deer, elk , reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose. The stag, doe and fawn each have their own symbolism. The symbolism is very different from a wolf's, where the wolf acts as a pack animal, the stag always works alone. In Native American Indian cultures, the person who took on the role of the stag was known as an "Elk Dreamer", but in general the deer is, for nearly all shamanic cultures, the symbol of "ecstatic flight". The Sami people for example, "become" reindeer in their minds, hence the myth of Father Christmas. One of the oldest traditional dances of modern day Scotland represents this symbolic flight - the "Highland Fling" - once a wild and vigorous dance of sympathetic magic. But to really ancient peoples, the deer was also a "god". Cernunnos was a horned stag god and he is shown on the Gundestrup Cauldron, on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
But perhaps the most important symbolic deer of all is the White Hart - a White Stag that was seen as a messenger from the Otherworld. For those humans who encountered a white stag, there were often profound consequences, sometimes stimulating great spiritual changes within a person.
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CREDITS
The link for the entry on our website is
https://allaboutheaven.org/symbols/deer/153/main

PHOTOS
Emma Pearson - taken on Burwell Fen: Instagram: emmas.nature.photography
National Elk Refuge in Wyoming. Photo by Alex Lennon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Majestic moose at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan
Male deer - Jason Palmer
Doe- Curtis Smith
Stag during rut - Gary and Mitch Bainter
Fawn - Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge by Tom Koerner
Group of deer - Robina Elizabeth Fry
Emily Hodapp - U S Fish and Wildlife Service
Samen Risten Per Ante Oskar Maze 4O9A0861 indigenous people Maria-Haas 2019
Samen Kautokeino Rentier-Herder indigenous-people -Maria-Haas 2019
Stag - Bob Gjestvang

PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
The Sorcerer - Sketch of Breuil's drawing. Photograph. Wellcome - The Sorcerer is one name for a cave painting found in the cavern known as "The Sanctuary" at the Cave of the Trois-Frères, Ariège, France, made around 13,000 BCE.
Johannes Schefferus - Lapponia sami shaman with drum
Catrin Welz Stein
Frederick Remington – The Love call
Edmund Dulac – The Lapp Woman And The Finn Woman
Salvador Dali
Johan Tiren – Boy And Wolf
Lascaux Caves, French: Grotte de Lascaux, Montignac, France - Megaloceros
Georgia O’ Keeffe – from the Faraway, nearby
John William Waterhouse - The Mystic Wood [1914 - c.1917 ], Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane, Australia

SCULPTURE
Gundestrupkedlen/Gundestrup Cauldron showing Cernunnos

VIDEOS
Red Stags Fight For Females In Rutting Season | Scotland Wild Travel | Robert E Fuller
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZZPdZD06VjM
Roaring Red Deer Stag at Tatton Park Cheshire.
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=JJiF42aguYY
Shaman Drums share Love in Finland
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Rr3044DtOhw
Gareth Mitchelson - World Champion Highland Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=vP4N33dZLM0
Soldiers doing the Sword Dance
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=LmjmEdiEX_4

VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE

Deer Green Screen Video
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GuS5Z78bfX0

Impala Deer Green screen video
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ACWXGoZ-SlM

Deer
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=C4T4SF8lkWY

Mots Deer Video No Copyright Ep6
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=8OONLUBcppI

Deer Free Stock Video in 4K
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=3MbO1M7QFGA

Bull Moose Rut
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=xHfsuTzvOm0

House of the Dragon
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lbuMc4dAg4I

Great Highland Fling performance by competitors at Kenmore
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CfE7jHThiUc

Film of Kenmore Highland Games 2018 with bagpipes
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=X06oTyF52hI

Moose - Sounds
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2thxtUzAtVk

MUSIC

00:00 Home for the Holidays - Chris Haugen
01:57 Riding Into The Sun - Telecasted
03:44 Landing - Godmode
05:44 Tibet - HOVATOFF

08:12 Healing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Artist: http://incompetech.com/

10:36 Great Highland Fling performance

11:32 Anguish by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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13:48 Soothsayer - John Patitucci
16:00 Home for the Holidays - Chris Haugen