Forest Crows

The dark dancers of the night linger upon the branches, capturing within their bright black eyes everything that moves in the forest as if surveying their domain like kings. Not a moment goes by that these lords of the eve don't take targets of every undefended object, and break the silence so casually as if to proclaim themselves invulnerable to any possible predator lurking in the shadows. In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Crow is a trickster, culture hero and ancestral being. Legends relating to Crow have been observed in various Aboriginal language groups and cultures across Australia; these commonly include stories relating to Crow's role in the theft of fire, the origin of death and the killing of Eagle's son. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in classical Greek mythology, when the crow told the god Apollo that his lover Coronis was cheating on him with a mortal, he became very angry, and part of that anger was directed at the crow, whose feathers he turned from white to black. In the Story of Bhusunda, a chapter of the Yoga Vasistha, a very old sage in the form of a crow, Bhusunda, recalls a succession of epochs in the earth's history, as described in Hindu cosmology. He survived several destructions, living on a wish-fulfilling tree on Mount Meru. Crows are mentioned often in Buddhism, especially Tibetan disciplines. The Dharmapala (protector of the Dharma) Mahakala is represented by a crow in one of his physical/earthly forms. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=126283