Deerpocalypse

I think this is the right board for this kind of thing. It didn't seem like it'd fit neatly anywhere else so here's hoping!


So, there's some kind of wide spread event going on that's caught some attention around Tumblr, which a user named skadisman began calling Deerpocalypse. Basically it all started with a sudden, conspicuous influx of deer imagery both on- and offline right around Christmas and it hasn't quit yet. Once attention was brought to this event more and more people began chiming in with a similar experience an it wound up becoming a thing around Tumblr.

Skadisman put together a pretty decent list of common themes seen in their personal Deerpocalypse that were also shared by some other people. It might be a bit out dated by this time but it's still a good list. The largest themes that I've noticed are the deer, kingship, and death. There are others on the list that I haven't personally picked up on and I'm sure there's more elements being seen in other people's personal 'pocalypses that haven't featured in skadisman's.

There's multiple pantheons and cultures that seem to be involved. The deities that are most heavily involved that I've seen people pointing fingers at are Odin, Freyr, Loki, and Cernunnos. There seems to be quite a bit of blurring and uncertainty when it comes to correctly pinning certain aspects of the event on a certain deity and the group has been accused of mantle swapping and borrowing symbolism and such from each other to keep people guessing.

Cernunnos was only relatively recently identified as the horned deity associated with all of the antlered imagery and a Tumblr user named Deuognaton made a very awesome, informative post about him and the different symbolism involved in Deerpocalypse.

No one really seems to know why this event is happening and none of the deities involved appear to be willing to give anyone any kind of clear cut answers. I tried getting some answers for myself with my tarot cards about the reason behind this event and it all boiled down to "be patient".

On top of the deer imagery some people are starting to get other animals invading their dashboards and popping up outside of the internet that seem to be involving themselves in Deerpocalypse somehow as well, myself included. On top of the deer my dash is being plagued by imagery of owls, ravens, wolves and foxes, and most recently snakes seem to be working their way in as well. I only work with Cernunnos and Loki and for me all of these animals link back to them somehow. With the exception of the owls. Me and a user called lokiwtf have both been seeing a large influx of owls and neither of us seems to have been able to figure out who is sending them or why yet.

In general it seems to be agreed upon that these deities are using our dashboards and real life experiences to gain attention for themselves, but no one seems to be exactly sure why they're trying to get this attention.

I figured this might be an interesting topic to discuss and speculate about. Is anyone else wrapped up in this odd event or noticing influxes of certain animals or imagery? Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? I'm not very good at problem solving or subtle clues but I'd like to see what other people might pick up.