@indi I think culture is also a big and unignorable part of it. Like you said in the post we're working as much off of cultural constructs of animals as much as of the animals themselves.
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@starkatt This has been a conundrum since the early days of therians; and coyotes and foxes are the poster species for it. ;)
I would argue that we can't NOT experience it through a cultural lens, and cultural constructs are totally valid things to base even a spirituality off of.
Having strong cultural-species-trait ties only really become a problem when you're trying to argue for things like p-shifting or very essentialist implementations of reincarnation. And those have other problems. ;)
