Bird Watching: Daily Pics #7, 1 by Grasmussen

Grasmussen wrote:
Resin:
I'm not well enough versed in the Raven Mythology myself to discuss it, even though half of this household is Alaskan Native, Yup'ik Eskimo. Alaska's Native people are divided into eleven distinct cultures, speaking twenty different languages. However, there is a web site page: Raven in Mythology @ http://www.ravenfamily.org/nascakiyetl/obs/rav1.html Quoting from it: "Whereas ravens appear almost exclusively as signatory animals for deities in Europe, in the shamanic cultures of aboriginal North American tribes Raven appears as deity himself."

The Eyak, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian share a common and similar Northwest Coast Culture with important differences in language and clan system. The raven is prominent in these cultures. Oh ladies, these were matriarchal cultures power and property where held by women and handed down through matrilineal descent.

Gary




This message was edited Apr 3, 2007 8:23 PM