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Crows

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Meaning of Crows in Creation Myths

It's so interesting that Crows are significant in so many creation myths. And I have to wonder if it's because people would observe intelligent behavior in Crows. So they were open to like, oh, look at this brilliant bird. That is so smart. Like they will scavenge. They might eat a carrion. But we just like basically put on them that this means that they're creepy or that there's some kind of badOh man. It's not nothing malicious. Yeah. There's a bunch of other traditions here about other crows stuff. The Hopi nation has a central crow mother figure in their traditions. Who's the maternal ancestor of all kachinas

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