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the goth genius of the sky, holding grudges and funerals and your gaze just a little too long
means A large, glossy black bird of the crow family, known for its intelligence, deep croaking call, and long association with omens and the macabre.
from From Old English 'hræfn,' a word echoing across the old Germanic tongues — Old Norse 'hrafn,' Old High German 'hraban' — all likely imitating the bird's harsh, throaty cry. That same root flaps through Norse myth, where Odin kept two ravens, Huginn and Muninn ('thought' and 'memory'), who flew the world each day and whispered its news back to him.
- face memory
- Recognizes and remembers individual human faces for years
- tool maker
- Bends wire and fashions hooks to fetch food
- funerals
- Gathers around dead ravens, studying the danger
- play
- Slides down snowy roofs purely for fun
- vocabulary
- Mimics speech and over 30 distinct calls
edgar allan poe's raven — the 1845 narrative poem featuring a talking raven visiting a grieving man at midnight
baltimore ravens — nfl team based in baltimore, maryland, named after poe's poem and the city's connection to him
common raven — corvus corax, found across the northern hemisphere, known as one of the most intelligent birds