Where thought has carried us
BLACK RAVEN
~Thought~
LEGEND
On a cold, wet day in the ‘distant time’ when the earth was beginning to dry out after the great flood, Raven was flying above the shore wishing for something to relieve his boredom. He noticed a bright shiny object on the beach partially embedded in the mud. It was emitting strange squeaking sounds. Swooping down to investigate he found a clam shell filled with tiny wiggling objects. Raven helped free these struggling creatures. Helpless, two-legged, pale, bent, cold, wet, hungry and quite afraid of this towering dark object in front of them- the first first humans emerged. In the beginning Raven had to help them with everything but eventually they became hardworking, productive people.
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(image: Raven and the First Men by Bill Reid. Story: Haida)
Ah…would you like me to send you another picture or two of this photo?
Comment made on January 20, 2008 @ 4:40 am
Looks a lot like one of yours (not surprising eh?)- this photos was taken early 1990’s. One of its mates was included in my doc dissertation- Patterns of the Spirit a Homeopathic Medicine Wheel
The symbolism of the “first man” emerging from the clam shell fits the archetypal image of the “first” medicine on my homeopathic medicine wheel; Calcarea Carbonica.
The medicine’s general characteristics, susceptibilities and association of the direction; East are shared with the myth of Haida “First Man” legend.
As if remembering being deposited by the moon’s water on the earth’s shore we find these qualities in the homeopathic medicine derived from clam shell: worse full moon, important remedy for infants and children, bent legs, crooked spine, cold damp flabby bodies, ravenous hunger, slow to mature…..
Patterns of the spirit, an endless fascination.
Comment made on January 27, 2008 @ 9:44 pm