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Her face is barely visible in the cold and barren landscapes. She sees through the wings of the Ravens and her lips curl out from the bare branches of the tree, Water of Air. They fly in the realm of the mind, across the river to the Underworld that becomes obscured by mist – water vapour. Only she can see clearly. This Queen is the “Liberator of the Mind” (Crowley).
The use of the Ravens – Odin’s Ravens – make complete sense to me here. They are the shamanic shapeshifters, they are the mind freed from the body and the danger is that they never return.
Her face is barely visible in the cold and barren landscapes. She sees through the wings of the Ravens and her lips curl out from the bare branches of the tree, Water of Air. They fly in the realm of the mind, across the river to the Underworld that becomes obscured by mist – water vapour. Only she can see clearly. This Queen is the “Liberator of the Mind” (Crowley).
The use of the Ravens – Odin’s Ravens – make complete sense to me here. They are the shamanic shapeshifters, they are the mind freed from the body and the danger is that they never return.
Wikipedia said:Scholars have linked Odin's relation to Huginn and Muninn to shamanic practice. John Lindow relates Odin's ability to send his "thought" (Huginn) and "mind" (Muninn) to the trance-state journey of shamans. Lindow says the Grímnismál stanza where Odin worries about the return of Huginn and Muninn "would be consistent with the danger that the shaman faces on the trance-state journey."