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Guardian of the Dead by ~snowfly:iconsnowfly:

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©2005-2010 ~snowfly
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Photo taken at Yellowstone Park this past summer. The Ravens in the park are huge.

Playing around with the burn tool again and some filters.
Burn tool for edges.
Filter used: Diffuse Glow

•In Celtic myth, the raven was one of the most important symbols of the Terrible Mother, for the raven is a scavenger that devours corpses on the battlefield. Fighting Celts would find ravens eating the flesh of fallen warriors, thus adding to the bird's mystique as guardian spirit of the dead.

Common Raven
(Corvus corax)

I am the Voice of the Raven Upon Wind.
My harsh cries echo long upon the Earth and Air:
Nothing is Forever, Not Life,
not Love,
not Death,
nor Loss.
Only change is eternal,
and only destruction
can the seed of creation form.

My wings bear me between
Darkness and Light,
Land and Sky,
the Garden and
the Wildwood.

I perch upon the Threshold
of the Worlds,
both flesh and spirit,
gifting the Brave Seeker
with Visions and Magick of the Otherworld.

To face me
is to face your greatest terror,
the Shadow of yourself,
the unknown and dangerous.
In chancing destruction,
your fear loses it's power to destroy.
For only in acceptance
of Mortality will you learn the ...
Secrets of Immortality as I,
the Raven,
possess.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
author unknown

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~AragwenElessar Jan 13, 2005, 10:44:08 AM
i love ravens they are so cool....awesome pic!

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~Oh Rly eh?~
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~snowfly Jan 13, 2005, 10:58:14 AM
Thank you so much.
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~charcoaldust Jan 13, 2005, 10:58:38 AM
This is absolutely breathtakeing! My mouth dropped open when I saw it. :clap: beautiful I love the border it gives it that eerie old tin plate effect!

:heart:
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~snowfly Jan 13, 2005, 11:00:31 AM
Thanks!
The boarder happend by mistake :giggle: but I liked it.
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~AragwenElessar Jan 13, 2005, 11:03:18 AM
anytime :)

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~Oh Rly eh?~
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*AnnaMT Feb 19, 2005, 10:27:26 AM
great picture....i tryed to get a pic of a raven..i jumped over fences and crap like like...only to get a pic of it flying away...its still pretty cool, its in my gallery, but i like urs better!

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- anna...
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=Athansor Feb 19, 2005, 1:12:33 PM
You certainly do take evocative images! :-) This reminds me of the obvious--Poe's "The Raven"... I'm sorry--but I simply have to say it-- "Quoth the raven--'Nevermore!'"

Whew! Glad I got that out of my system! ;-)

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I wish you didn't grow up so quickly. Oswald can see that ere long he will be too old for the kind of games we can all play, and he feels grown-upness creeping inordiously upon him. But enough of this.
-The Wouldbegoods- E. Nesbit
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~snowfly Feb 21, 2005, 9:03:42 AM
Thanks for your comment :hug:
And I checked out your raven on your page and I think it is very good. :nod:
:iconsnowfly:
~snowfly Feb 21, 2005, 9:07:25 AM
"And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"

:giggle:

Thanks for your sweet comment. :glomp:
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