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9. The Crone, one of whose symbols is the Crow or Raven, is very powerful...
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 02:04 AM
Mar 2022

(I say this in case the confused poster wanders back.)

She has many aspects — the wise grandmother, midwife, but also death and decay, which completes the circle and allows renewal.

She is not evil in her dark aspect, any more than a storm at sea is evil — but like that sea-storm, she can be terrifying.

A warrior who sets forth at need to defend hearth and home might well call on the Crow Goddess for strength to do the necessary, and what is necessary will be bloody and dangerous. Is that man or woman evil? No. They stand between their loved ones and the foe who would slay or enslave them.

This too is the Hag.

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