Keep giving plenty of rein to that imagination, Mike - this is a poem to come back to again and again. Thanks for putting it on here, and for persevering with the site.
I wonder how Neolithic people saw the ravens. It seems that at the Sanctuary near Avebury, corpses were exposed to be stripped of the flesh before the bones were deposited in West Kennet Long Barrow. I imagine that ravens, crows and red kites were involved in that - which could make them harbingers of doom, but could equally make them sacred, just as vultures are in some cultures. It might have been a rather different scenario from the status of the raven, personified in the bloodthirsty Morrigan, in later Celtic cultures where the birds must chiefly have been observed in the aftermath of battles!
... written by Mark Rhodenbaugh,
November 14, 2011
The Raven stands for many Things, Unknown though to most Modern Men. They only see it as a Carrier of Souls, But as an Agent of Deep Healing do not Know.
Keep Rockin, ZZ (The Wandering One)
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I wonder how Neolithic people saw the ravens. It seems that at the Sanctuary near Avebury, corpses were exposed to be stripped of the flesh before the bones were deposited in West Kennet Long Barrow. I imagine that ravens, crows and red kites were involved in that - which could make them harbingers of doom, but could equally make them sacred, just as vultures are in some cultures. It might have been a rather different scenario from the status of the raven, personified in the bloodthirsty Morrigan, in later Celtic cultures where the birds must chiefly have been observed in the aftermath of battles!