Centaur Near Mt Shasta


Line drawing, acrylic wash, 1986, by Chris Wayan.

Mt Shasta, the huge volcano dominating the skyline of Northern California, has been my personal holy mountain since childnood; only later did I learn of the Native American legends around it (not to mention the extraordinary number of modern cults).

I always associated Shasta with centaurs and talking horses because of Shasta, the hero of sorts in C.S. Lewis's THE HORSE AND HIS BOY, one of the few Narnia books I liked (less preachy, or maybe just because it wasn't set in Narnia).

Anyway the sparsely-settled, iron-soiled hills around Mt Shasta feel like centaur heaven, though the centaur girl I saw guiding me had California attitudes about sex and democracy and such-like decadent notions that old Aslan the jealous lion-god (aka C.S. Lewis) would probably claw her butt for having.

A blonde/roan centaur girl from the back, turning to smile. Flowering grass hills, Mt. Shasta on horizon.


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