DEUS PASCIT CORVOS
God feeds the ravens.
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God feeds the ravens.
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“Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?”
LUKE 12 : 24“You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there. And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening.”
1 KINGS 17 : 4–6“Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?”
JOB 38 : 41“He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.”
PSALM 147 : 9“And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.”
GENESIS 8 : 7Two ravens fly for Odin over the whole of the world each day. Huginn is Thought, Muninn is Memory. Every evening they return and tell him what they have seen. The old verse has Odin fearing most for Muninn: that memory might not come back.
At the Tower of London, ravens have been kept for centuries under a standing order, guarded by the Ravenmaster. The legend says that if the ravens ever leave the Tower, the kingdom will fall.
Ravens mate for life, hold grudges, use tools, and recognize human faces across years. They gather at dusk in great numbers and no one fully knows what they are saying. They were here before us and will be here after.