-Kafka
Crow's hair is actually not pure black, but black with shiny dark blue and dark green. Whenever it flies in the evening light, its naked body is often painted with a faint metallic color. I think it is like a rusty cast iron suddenly solidified in the air, trying to open it in a particle state. But rust cannot be removed. It means birthmark, which makes us notice the depth of iron at the edge of the feather.
Throughout the ages, crows have generally appeared in the fields of poetry and philosophy, because they are always related to death, thoughts and ominous signs. In my eyes, crows are synonymous with heresy, hackers in the air, husbands at dusk and opium in the sky. Its wings are like boiling sadness, scattered with invisible smoke. So crows are also the chief managers of dreams. But before becoming this manager, Crowe must start from a humble position, such as doing intelligence, such as being a detective and so on. Crow is Apollo's favorite bird and God's eye. Its bad habit of lying has made it suffer from the scourge-it can never drink water, but can only bark. Odin, the "king of the gods" in Nordic mythology, usually stays on the throne, and he can see the every move of the gods, giants and human beings in the sky at a glance. There are two crows on Odin's shoulders, one representing thoughts and the other representing memories. These two crows are Odin's secret detectives, who fly to the earth every day to find out the news. This fully shows the crow's class origin. In the legend of the flood, it also shoulders the mission of spying on the situation. Because in the Bible, the Lord said, "Because man is flesh and blood, my God cannot live in him." In this regard, St. Ambrose commented: "This sentence means that flesh and blood contaminated with sin cannot accept God's grace. Therefore, in order to give people a holy favor, God called the flood and ordered Noah to enter the ark. After the flood receded, Noah released a crow first. The crow didn't fly back, so he let go of another pigeon. The dove flew back with an olive branch in her mouth. You see water, wood and pigeons. Do you still doubt their meaning? The pollution of flesh-and-blood crimes should be washed with water, and major crimes are buried in the water. Jesus was crucified and suffered for us. According to the Bible, the Holy Spirit of God came in the image of a dove, giving you peace of mind and spiritual peace. If you keep God's commandments and follow the example of the righteous, then the crow you let go and never fly back is a symbol of your sin. " This means that crows are also regarded as a dark metaphor-crows symbolize evil.
This view is like a shocking typo, which is hard for many people to agree with, even though Christianity itself has made some remedial measures in its later interpretation. According to the scripture, the Lord ordered the crow to be the wet nurse. "Elijah is by the stream, and the crow will give him food as his messenger." "You should drink the water from the stream, and I have ordered the crow to feed you there. ..... The crow brings him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he also drinks water from the stream. " So, "Did God send crows to feed Elijah?" Has become a famous debate. This at least shows that the cursed crows are still working silently for the righteousness. With this, the crows' morality is very noble.
In this way, crows bleed in the dark. Crow's blood has a pure black sadness and hesitation. It licks the wound. Crow blood is a poison handed down from generation to generation. For the enemy, for yourself, it indicates that countless beautiful nights are equal to the rest of dawn, and countless deaths are only due to sleep. Crow blood is the source of thought and the first driving force of heresy.
When it comes to ideas, we can't help talking about crows and owls. The intricate bad blood between them cannot be traced back to the source. In my opinion, they are all thinking animals. Owls hold their eyes high like coal in the dark and patrol the movements of things. They serve rational thinking. Crows, on the other hand, are like heretics, howling and flying back regardless of gains and losses to disturb and remind people of unusual discoveries under normal conditions. Every time the owl becomes the master of thought, the crow drives away the former's arrogant territory with the sound of cast iron friction, forcing it to accept another master. In this case, the situation of their fighting with each other is becoming more and more serious, and it is difficult to recover. According to the Buddhist sutra Zabao Jing, crows take advantage of owls' amblyopia during the day and go directly to their nests to fight and eat. At night, owls are blinded by crows, chasing, catching, plundering, and slitting open their bellies. In this way, I am afraid of the day and the night, and I am murderous and bloody for 24 hours. This hellish day has no end in sight, and the birds involved in the war are either killed or on the verge of collapse.
The result of this confrontation is not that the crow defeats the owl, but that the heresy is often Depth Charge who promotes the ideological expansion. Then, it disappeared, it was cursed, and it was sent to hell. These are the things that the guardians will do next.
East and west have different views on crow's cry. The ancient book Ya Ya thinks that crows make trouble when they see something different, so they spit at it fiercely, which shows that it is not the crow itself that is ominous. It just makes a sound when it sees something different, so people will spit on it because of its sound, so those who spit on it are not for crows. In this case, it is quite an excuse for crows, but the folklore that has been passed down to this day is obviously disgusting because crows are unlucky. But there are always exceptions, and it is not known whether this exception is some kind of hint from crows. As heretical crows, perhaps we can only incline to this speculation. Westerners believe that crows make loud cries with their unique nasal sounds and "cut!" ... cut it off! ... chop it up! The suggestion was compared by American ornithologist audubon to "the sound of clarinet out of tune". To me, it should be the sound of cast iron being torn by different forces. Dry, hard and stubborn enough to penetrate the shell and essence of things.
The earliest secret sect in the history of China was the White Lotus Sect formed at the end of Yuan Dynasty. Mao Ziyuan, the founder, heard the crow's cry during "meditation" one day, and suddenly realized that he had recited four sentences casually: "For more than 20 years, I have searched, searched and pondered on paper; Suddenly, I heard a kind cry. I believe I had the wrong intention before. " From then on, it broke with the original pure land Sect of Buddhism and established a new Sect. He extracted useful contents from the Buddhist scriptures "Tripitaka", compiled "Morning Confessions of Bailian Sect", founded "Bailian Sect Confessions Hall", "persuaded all men and women to practice pure business", called himself "Bailian Sect Instructor" and became a living Buddha worshipped by believers. In this way, Mao Ziyuan broke away from the pure land Sect of Buddhism and became the leader of a heretic Sect. This legend at least makes us pay attention to a focus, that is, the heretical crow opened the heretical trend of thought. For crows, does this mission come from the arrangement of heaven or from the induction of people and birds? It's hard to say. If we go back, by the time Dong Fangshuo wrote The Crow Classic of Yin and Yang Bureau in Han Dynasty, the research on crow's bark pedigree had been generally complete. This is not a mysterious move, because we can find that, for example, Bonism regards crows as divine birds and conveys the will of the gods, so Bones often uses crows' cries to judge good or bad luck. Similar records can also be found in the preface of Dunhuang Tibetan Writing Volume P.T. 1045:
1. Crow is the master of human beings.
2. Pass on the immortal will.
3. Northern Tibet is the hometown of yak.
4. In the center of this place,
5. She conveyed a sacred message.
This method of bird divination has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people after being controlled by Wu Zhu for a long time. What people perceive from the crow's cry is not only evil, but the advantages and disadvantages of various things. The crow pulls out its dark wings, and its wings spread out at the edge of dusk, just like the ripples of a mirror, becoming a thermometer to identify the essence of things.
Crow's prediction is always accurate, and rational people can only accept it, because it pulls up a corner of the real picture and is not credible. A few months before St. Titus Flavius Domitianus was killed, a crow on Mount CaPitor shouted, "Everything will be fine!" " Someone once explained this sign: "There is a crow screaming' Everything will be fine' on the top of the rock in the tibia. It can't say' everything is fine now'. " It is said that Titus Flavius Domitianus himself dreamed that he had a golden tumor on his back, which was an unquestionable omen: after his death, the state of the country would be more prosperous than when he was in office, and it did happen soon.
According to edgar allan poe's creative philosophy, when reading the last two verses of the poem, readers will "begin to regard the crow as a symbol, but it is not until the last line of the last verse that readers can understand the exact meaning of this symbol-the crow symbolizes endless grief and death." We might as well read the last poem again:
"The light that shines on it casts its shadow on the floor;
My soul will float on the floor from the darkness.
Promotion-gone forever! "
There is actually a little hope in this despair. The crow deliberately lowered the temperature of a feather, so we used it to plow deeper darkness.
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams once mentioned that flying in dreams symbolizes "sex", but does the description of birds also imply the subconscious confession of "sex"? Shelley's To the Lark, Keats' To the Nightingale and edgar allan poe's The Raven are all poems sung by the author to suppress love. Then, when Snow White was lying in the transparent coffin, three birds-owl, crow and pigeon-mourned her in turn, which seemed to imply a subconscious sexual symbol. In this way, the crow is the poet's depressed body. It is black because it dreams of white skin in the dark. It is called metal because it is eager to penetrate everything. Contact Kafka, what I want to say is that crows are cards displayed in the sky.