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The eye-catching crows and ravens play a role in legends and fairy tales around the world. According to this, ancient gods and kings used their wisdom, intelligence and ability to fly. In parallel, these birds also play a role in popular belief and superstition. In many fairy tales, for example, there is often talk of the wise hiker "röiven" (old German), who shows stray hikers the right way (and often gives a few tips on the trip). Well known are the Grimm fairy tales The Seven Ravens and The Raven.
In Norse mythology the raven symbolizes wisdom, the god Odin always had the two common ravens Hugin and Munin with him, who sat on his shoulders and told him what was going on in the world. King Arthur is said to have been turned into a raven. The ravens were sacred to the Greek god Apollon (see Koronis). In the story of the Flood, Noah lets a raven fly (Gen 8,6-7 ELB). According to the Bible, the prophet Elijah is cared for by ravens during a time of famine (1 Kings 17: 6 ELB). In the Babylonian version of the Flood myth, the Atraḫasis epic, Atraḫasis sent three birds after the rain had ended: a dove, a swallow and a raven. The raven did not return, so Atraḫasis knew that the land was accessible again. In both the Judeo-Christian and the older Babylonian version, the earth “fell” after the flood, which contributed to the bad image of the raven as a bird of bad luck. With Christianization, the raven was increasingly seen in Europe as a demonic being or an evil animal, due to its mythological significance in previous cults (e.g. as a Wotans bird, battle leader and hunting companion), which accompanied the devil as a scavenger and announced damage as an unlucky raven. [24] The assumption of a connection between the raven and the devil goes back above all to the church fathers. [25] The corpses of the hanged were often not buried in the Middle Ages, when the raven, like the rook or carrion rook, was given an ambivalent interpretation, [26] and even later; so the raven even became a gallows bird. On the other hand, the tame, affectionate and speaking raven also plays a role as a pet. [27]
The raven also plays a major role in North American Indian and Inuit fairy tales, in which, in contrast to West African fairy tales, it plays a positive role. [28] In India, crows accompany the goddess Kali. In Christian legends, the crow is the messenger of Saint Oswald, and two ravens pursued the murderers of Meinrad von Einsiedeln and brought them to justice.
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