Tonight I walked around for a looooong time. I walked around Kanazawa Castle and found the night-time resting place of every single crow in the city. It was an eerie walk through a path lined with bronze sculptures every ten feet. And the crows seemed like leaves on the barren trees when I looked up, blinded by the bright light of the full moon. I swear there must have been hundreds of them — thousands of them even!
Monday, November 06, 2006
sculptures and sleeping crows
Tonight I walked around for a looooong time. I walked around Kanazawa Castle and found the night-time resting place of every single crow in the city. It was an eerie walk through a path lined with bronze sculptures every ten feet. And the crows seemed like leaves on the barren trees when I looked up, blinded by the bright light of the full moon. I swear there must have been hundreds of them — thousands of them even!
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Hey Graeme,
What a poignant moment! Crows are intriguing, because as I have discovered, humans have a long history with crows, developing legend, myth and spiritual rites around these creatures. Some suggest that crows are the arch-nemeses of human beings! Inuit lore has the crow as the bearer of light; eventually, the crow has evolved from a handmaid to humanity into a threat to our survival (apparently this demonization grew exponentially in accordance with our aggrarian culture).
I like to think that you happened upon a senate of the crows, the sacred site where they congregate before bringing light to the world.
Another cool thing: I was reading Discover magazine, and there is an article about the Milky Way and that fact that there are certain bodies in space that we only ever see ONE side of. The moon is an example of a planet that we only see one "face" of. Here is a quotation about the Milky Way from the article: "Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has interesting things hidden behind its farside too. One of the nearest galactic neighbors—the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal—lurks invisibly behind the Milky Way's center. (It was discovered only by tracking the occasional stars that peek through.) When our solar system swings around in 100 million years, the curtain will rise and this billion-solar-mass galaxy will appear as the largest entity in the night sky, 40 times wider than the moon. By then, the beautiful Andromeda galaxy will be obscured and go unseen for tens of millions of years."
Too bad we won't be around to see that, eh?! Oh well.
I guess this comment should have been an email. Well... booyah.
Erin,
if the Earth is still around (which it probably won't be, because our sun will be in a stellar retirement home, or because we will have destoryed all life before that), then we might be able to witness it in re-incarnated forms, living as a different Erin and a different Graeme in such an unimaginably distant future.
But, it would be spectacular to see that show in geological time; imagine what the planets must witness looking out into the universe with their time-lapse eyes.
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