RAVEN STATUE 12"

Description: #A-Sr543 This statuette of a Raven has been created from cold-cast resin and delicately hand-painted. It measures approx. 12.5" x 6.5" x 14".Payment is due within seven days. If you would like to purchase more than the quantity shown, please contact me. USPS Priority Mail, FedEx, and UPS are available; insurance is included.Shipping may only be combined with other items whose # starts with A, and which are paid for at the same time and delivered to the same address; please wait to pay until I send you your combined invoice to ensure that you have the correct amount.Please double-check your delivery address. If package is returned due to an inaccurate or incomplete address, Buyer is responsible for cost of reshipping.It is only in relatively recent times that some have believed the raven to be a bird of ill-omen, but it has not always been so. Besides being the subject of a very famous poem, the beautiful black winged creature has been of significance in many cultures and religions, including Greek, Roman, Norse, Native American, and Celtic. It was associated with such gods as Odin, Morrigan, Athena, Apollo, Amatrasu and Brahma. Ravens are very intelligent and can be taught to speak.The Celts connected the raven with battle and the goddess Morrigan. In Japan and India, Amatrasu and Brahma are said to take the form of the Raven.Countless cultures point to the raven as a harbinger of powerful secrets. Moreover, the raven is a messenger too, so it both keeps and communicates deep mysteries.Raven symbolism of wisdom and knowledge-keeping is connected with the Welsh god Bran the Blessed, whose name means raven. Bran was the holder of ancestral memories, and his wisdom was legendary. So much so, that he had his head (the vessel of his powerful wisdom) removed and interred in the sacred White Mount in London. Ravens are still roosting there (in the Tower of London), and they're thought to keep Bran's wisdom protected and alive by their presence. Legend has it that the Kingdom of England will fall if they are ever removed.The name of the god, Lugh, is also derived from a Celtic word for "raven."In Norse mythology, Huginn ("thought") and Muninn ("memory") are a pair of ravens that belong to Odin. They fly over all of Midgard (our world) and report back to him everything they see and hear. Odin was also known as the Raven God. He had many daughters known as Valkyries who could transform into ravens. Historically the raven was a common device used by the Vikings, and on coats-of-arms in many countries.According to the Icelandic Landnámabók, Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson used ravens to guide his ship from the Faroe Islands to Iceland. The raven was a solar animal to the Greeks and Romans, and was associated with both Athena and Apollo. Apollo was also a major oracular god, which makes its connection with the chatty and (and alarmingly human-like) conversational raven a logical match. There are some Greco-Roman legends that say ravens were once all white, butecause the raven couldn't keep a secret to save its life, Apollo punished the raven by turning its bright white feathers black after it divulged too many secrets. There's also a version that said the owl replaced the raven by Athena's side as her associate of wisdom because of the raven's blabbermouth tendencies.According to Livy, the Roman general Marcus Valerius Corvus had a raven settle on his helmet during a combat with a gigantic Gaul, which distracted the enemy's attention by flying in his face.Ravens are mentioned on numerous occasions in the Bible and Christian lore. Noah first sent a raven, then glossy white, to see if the floodwaters had receded. When the raven did not return, it was said God turned its feathers black. Ravens brought food to the prophet Elijah. A raven is said to have protected Saint Benedict of Nursia by taking away a loaf of bread that had been poisoned.In the Fourth Century A.D. they protected the body of the martyred St. Vincent from being eaten by wild animals and guarded his shrine. The Arab geographer Al-Idrisi noted this constant guard by ravens, for which the place was named by him كنيسة الغراب "Kanīsah al-Ghurāb" (Church of the Raven). King Afonso Henriques had the body of the saint exhumed in 1173 and brought it by ship to Lisbon, still accompanied by the ravens.The Hindu deity Shani is often represented as being mounted on a giant black raven or crow.The raven god or spirit Kutcha (or Kutkh, Russian: Кутх)) is important in the shamanic tradition of the Koryaks and other indigenous Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples of the Russian Far East. Kutcha is traditionally revered in various forms by various peoples and appears in many legends: as a key figure in creation, as a fertile ancestor of mankind, as a mighty shaman and as a trickster. The raven also has a prominent role in the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including the Tsimishian, Haida, Heiltsuk, Tlingit, Kwakwaka'wakw, Coast Salish, Koyukons, and Inuit..The Inuit believed the raven tricked a giant sea monster into submission, and to this day its body serves as the Alaskan mainland. The Tlingit believed that when the Great Spirit created all things, he kept them separate and stored in cedar boxes. The Great Spirit gave these boxes to the animals who existed before humans. When the animals opened the boxes all the things that comprise the world came into being. The boxes held such things as mountains, fire, water, wind and seeds for all the plants. One such box, which was given to Seagull, contained all the light of the world. Seagull coveted his box and refused to open it, clutching it under his wing. All the people asked Raven to persuade Seagull to open it and release the light. Despite begging, demanding, flattering and trying to trick him into opening the box, Seagull still refused. Finally Raven became angry and frustrated, and stuck a thorn in Seagull's foot. Raven pushed the thorn in deeper until the pain caused Seagull to drop the box. Then out of the box came the sun, moon and stars that brought light to the world and allowed the first day to begin.Other Native North American tribes also saw the raven as the bringer of light. In fact, southwestern tribes (Hopi, Navajo, Zuni) believed the raven flew out from the dark womb of the cosmos, and with it brought the light of the sun (dawning of understanding). Consequently, the raven is considered a venerated bird of creation, for without the raven, humans would forever live in darkness.Another raven story from the Puget Sound region describes the "Raven" as having originally lived in the land of spirits (literally bird land) that existed before the world of humans. One day the Raven became so bored with bird land that he flew away, carrying a stone in his beak. When the Raven became tired of carrying the stone and dropped it, the stone fell into the ocean and expanded until it formed the firmament on which humans now live.One ancient story told on the Queen Charlotte Islands related: "Long ago, near the beginning of the world, Gray Eagle was the guardian of the Sun, Moon and Stars, of fresh water, and of fire. Gray Eagle hated people so much that he kept these things hidden. People lived in darkness, without fire and without fresh water.Gray Eagle had a beautiful daughter, and Raven fell in love with her. In the beginning, Raven was a snow-white bird, and as a such, he pleased Gray Eagle's daughter. She invited him to her father's longhouse.When Raven saw the Sun, Moon and stars, and fresh water hanging on the sides of Eagle's lodge, he knew what he should do. He watched for his chance to seize them when no one was looking. He stole all of them, and a brand of fire also, and flew out of the longhouse through the smoke hole. As soon as Raven got outside he hung the Sun up in the sky. It made so much light that he was able to fly far out to an island in the middle of the ocean. When the Sun set, he fastened the Moon up in the sky and hung the stars around in different places. By this new light he kept on flying, carrying with him the fresh water and the brand of fire he had stolen.He flew back over the land. When he had reached the right place, he dropped all the water he had stolen. It fell to the ground and there became the source of all the fresh-water streams and lakes in the world. Then Raven flew on, holding the brand of fire in his bill. The smoke from the fire blew back over his white feathers and made them black. When his bill began to burn, he had to drop the firebrand. It struck rocks and hid itself within them. That is why, if you strike two stones together, sparks of fire will drop out.Raven's feathers never became white again after they were blackened by the smoke from the firebrand. That is why Raven is now a black bird."The raven is the national bird of Bhutan, and adorns the royal hat, representing the deity Gonpo Jarodonchen (Mahakala with a Raven's head; one of the important guardian deities). It is the official bird of the Yukon and of the city of Yellowknife, Northwest territories.Another raven story from the Puget Sound region describes the "Raven" as having originally lived in the land of spirits (literally bird land) that existed before the world of humans. One day the Raven became so bored with bird land that he flew away, carrying a stone in his beak. When the Raven became tired of carrying the stone and dropped it, the stone fell into the ocean and expanded until it formed the firmament on which humans now live.One ancient story told on the Queen Charlotte Islands related: "Long ago, near the beginning of the world, Gray Eagle was the guardian of the Sun, Moon and Stars, of fresh water, and of fire. Gray Eagle hated people so much that he kept these things hidden. People lived in darkness, without fire and without fresh water.Gray Eagle had a beautiful daughter, and Raven fell in love with her. In the beginning, Raven was a snow-white bird, and as a such, he pleased Gray Eagle's daughter. She invited him to her father's longhouse.When Raven saw the Sun, Moon and stars, and fresh water hanging on the sides of Eagle's lodge, he knew what he should do. He watched for his chance to seize them when no one was looking. He stole all of them, and a brand of fire also, and flew out of the longhouse through the smoke hole. As soon as Raven got outside he hung the Sun up in the sky. It made so much light that he was able to fly far out to an island in the middle of the ocean. When the Sun set, he fastened the Moon up in the sky and hung the stars around in different places. By this new light he kept on flying, carrying with him the fresh water and the brand of fire he had stolen.He flew back over the land. When he had reached the right place, he dropped all the water he had stolen. It fell to the ground and there became the source of all the fresh-water streams and lakes in the world. Then Raven flew on, holding the brand of fire in his bill. The smoke from the fire blew back over his white feathers and made them black. When his bill began to burn, he had to drop the firebrand. It struck rocks and hid itself within them. That is why, if you strike two stones together, sparks of fire will drop out.Raven's feathers never became white again after they were blackened by the smoke from the firebrand. That is why Raven is now a black bird."The raven is the national bird of Bhutan, and adorns the royal hat, representing the deity Gonpo Jarodonchen (Mahakala with a Raven's head; one of the important guardian deities) It is the official bird of the Yukon and of the city of Yellowknife, Northwest territories. Cold-cast resin is a term used generally for sculpture, and means that the material is cast without the need for the extreme heat of a foundry. Many different additives can be used (stone, metal, glass, etc.) to give it different properties. The piece will look like solid marble, bronze, gold, etc., but be much more affordable. For example, in the case of cold-cast bronze, actual powdered bronze is usually added to the surface of the material, while the center is simply resin or resin with some sort of filler added. This gives the product the weight, look, and feel of bronze, but at a fraction of the cost of a foundry bronze. It also allows for great detail. Most of the major lines of figurines on the market today (Hamilton, Enesco, etc.) are made of cold-cast resin.

Price: 165.99 USD

Location: Middlefield, Massachusetts

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