Falcons are Natures perfect creatures. All falcons are she, just as ships, motorcycles and aircraft. Their calm, noble, cool appearance and reliability is what sets the falcons apart from all others; Noisy, spectacular, beautiful and exciting. No falcon regards you as a master. At the best, they regard you as an ally, who will provide for them and take care of them and introduce them to some good hunting. The sound of a falcon stooping from a towering pitch across miles of sky can be awe-inspiring: a unrepeatable, tearing noise like ripping cloth. The Falcon has perfect proportions and finely cut features, daring and intelligence, spectacular performance in the air and matchless execution in the chase – it has them all, a natural aristocrat. The name Peregrine comes from the Latin Peregrinus ‘wanderer’; if we measure success by the extent of territory held, Falco pereginus is the most successful bird alive. Ancient myths associate falcons with the human soul; they see falcons as messengers between heaven and earth and between humans and gods. Falcons are conceived as pushing the outside of the envelope of physical possibility; often considered perfectly evolved objects in which form and function mesh so precisely that there is no room for redundancy. The falconer's first impression of a new falcon, sitting, hooded on her perch, is one of unalloyed wildness. The slightest touch or sound and she'll puff out her feathers and hiss like a snake. Falcon training is a form of psychoanalysis, the falconer treasuring the notion that he might become a feral creature, like the falcon he trained. Like Horus, the ancient Iranian fie-and water-god Avestan Xvaranah was depicted as a falcon. Like Horus he was synonymous with the celestial fortune of kings and their divine right to wield authority. After months of preparation, a falconer's duty is above all else, to provide an opportunity for his falcon to demonstrate it's natural abilities to the fullest extent possible,. Genghis Khan’s future mother-in-law dreamt that a white falcon holding the sun and moon in its talons flew down from the sky to her hand. She took the vision as a sign that her daughter would marry the future conqueror.