Sacred Flora and Fauna

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Sacred Flora

Rose

Lavender

Oak

Holly

Cannabis

Psychoactive Mushrooms

Peyote

 

Sacred Fauna

Cats, both wild & domestic

Squirrels

Owls

Crows & Ravens

Butterflies & Moths

 

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