Back to Nature

It’s been a long time, but I think it is time to get back to where I truly belong. Mt Katahdin is a great place to push yourself both physically and spiritually, and I think it is time to pay our old friend a visit.

This Saturday myself, as awell as a group of friends that I consider to be family went to Moncton to be tattoo’d. Mine is below as well as a brief description of what it is meant to represent.

The Knotwork in the centre represents inner strength. The Three Ravens are for Life, Death and the Unknown.

Ravens have been viewed in many ways by many different cultures, but consistantly it is believed that they bring with them a deep and powerful magic. The celts believed this to be a healing power and the power of prophecy.

The Raven is the bringer of life aswell as death, and is considered to be one of the oldest and wisest animals.

Symbolism

Raven is a contrary spirit. On the negative side, Raven represents the profane, the devil, evil spirits, the trickster and thief, war and destruction, death and doom, the void.

Yet in many cultures Raven also represents deep magic, the mystery of the unknown, death and transformation, creation, healing, wisdom, protection, and prophecy.

Raven is both the symbol of the sun, and the symbol of a moonless night. She is the birth giving light in the center of our galaxy, and the black hole in the center of the universe, to which we are all traveling to our eventual extinction.

Raven is the fatal touch of the Calleach in winter, the wisdom of Odin, the vessel of prophecy given to a seer, the mighty protector of the Western Isles, and the healing message of an Indian shaman.

Raven is a complex bird, both in nature and in mythology.

~ by senjion on October 21, 2008.