
This is a Peregrine Falcon someone owns named after the Norse Goddess Freya. She is so soo sooo pretty!





She chases ducks, pheasants, and quail and her and her owner go hunting together. They make great pets. If I had one I would name her Isis after the Egyptian Goddess with Hawk wings , wife of Osiris (god of the underworld).

I identify all my Capitol Hill Queens as as "Golden Hawks of Genghis Kahn, Tengri sky Girls". Whoever is their companion and devotee gets to be the "Great Kahn". Genghis Kahn was orphaned at a young age an an escaped slave living off berries that Sky God Tengri provided for him, and he learned how to hunt and train Hawks.
He relied on Sky God Tengri to provide for every meal, and then unite Mongolian tribes who saw something Divine in the Great Kahn. Before each battle or military campaign , Genghis Kahn would spend all night in his tent praying to Tengri.

When people asked him about his military success, Genghis Kahn always said it wasn't him, but his love for Tengri that was responsible for all his military success. He went from being an orphan and escaped slave, having nothing, and being uneducated and illiterate, to being the greatest conqueror in the history of humanity. With roughly 100,000 uneducated poorly armed men, he toppled far more advanced civilizations, conquered millions, and created the first Empire where all Religions had to be tolerant of each other, he didn't force conversions to his faith, and he said everyone must choose their own Religion and others must respect it by law.
Kahn killed many people, but he wasn't a bigot, and way ahead of his time for a deeply religious man who didn't tell others to convert to his Religion. He had a very diverse Empire of Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and he got them all to basically get along. It's what I love about him, not how many people he killed. Apparently Tengri doesn't have the bigotry and jealousy, the Bible and Qur'an attribute to Allah and Yahweh to have.
Another thing I like about Kahn is that many of his officers were former enemies. He let POW's be officers in his military. One POW stepped forward and took accountability for shooting Genghis Kahn's horse out from under him. Admiring his courage, the Great Kahn nicknamed him "Arrow" and let him be a right-hand man who was very useful in military campaigns.
Another thing I like about the great Kahn is that he adopted enemy orphans as his own children, rather than kill them as Yahweh commanded Israelites to do to enemy cities.
There is also a story of one of Genghis Kahn's Hawks that kept knocking water out of his hand. Kahn in anger and frustration drew a sword and swung at the bird, accidently striking it , and it died. Turns out the water was poisoned by a venomous serpent. The bird was trying to save his life. Kahn told his men after that instant to control their anger and never make decisions when one is full of rage.

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