Why “raven”? Symbolic of raven is very lodged, particularly among the family of indo-European people. It is substitutable, that raven is very often attributed differently and has contradictory meanings. You can simply notice, that this bird is symbol from India god of wind, storm, wars called Indry and Nargala - Sumerian god of hell. As it is written in “The symbols dictionary” of Władysław Kopaliński, the raven is a symbol of upset, diseases, spoiling, sin, heresy, wars, deaths, atrocities, wildness, greed, looting, benefits, schedule of the corpse, bad divination, falsity, bad presage, devil, soul of bad person, solitude, longevity, thought, memory,  all of  the knowledge, prophecies, hope, providence, enlightened, dawn and sun . Wide interpretation capabilities make raven so frequent hero risen in human culture from - epos about Gilgamesz, through Talmud, bible, Greek myths, German, Chinese, Eskimo, Indians of north America, to modern times, with indication even of Shakespeare, Poego, Krasicki, Mickiewicz and Sienkievich. Raven is also hero many proverbs.

Ravens were always connected with Odin - the leader of Scandinavian gods pantheon. Everywhere he goes two of them accompanied him and on sited on his shoulder. One of them Hugin is personalizing thought, the other Munin - memory. Their task was bring Odin, every news that happen in the world.

Usually pre-Christian world connected a long range of positive features with the symbolic of a raven so we too perceive this noble bird. Besides, ravens accompanied people from the beginning of their history, which is one great pile of thread, war, carnage and deaths. They are exclusively wise, so many of us remembers the connection of certain activity of human kind with their results in the form of food abundance for ravens. There is only a puzzle, that ravens always distinguished, if it is only a march of troop as well as it will come for overflow of blood. So why the raven is our symbol? We are yet warriors!

Based on "Opowieści o Kruku" Lech Wilczek, Prószyński i S-ka, 1996 r.

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