Another day in the fight against size, species and gender bias!

Image: “Simi Hills, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 11 May 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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• INTRODUCTION
• VIDEO BY ALICE
• SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • A Conversation with Five Handsome Ravens
  • My Initial Impression of the Ravens I Met on the Trail
  • Story of the Ravens Swooping Down and Herding Me Away from a Danger
  • Thoughts on Raven Family Groups
  • Maybe Ravens Think of Us as Animals to Herd Since Our Language Is So Different from Their Own
  • The Sign-Off
• VIDEO CREDITS

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

This video is about my encounter with four raven herdsmen of the wilds. (It was me they were herding.) I also got multiple raspberries from a songbird that was tickled pink by something I said.

Right after the conversation of the songbirds, as I was sitting in the woods, the angry Ravens dive-bombed my head one by one. Each Raven shouted: “Walk!” one time as it swooped down on me.

Later on, for a number of cogently compelling reasons, I came up with a darker and more staid analysis of what went on in the below video. This later discussion is here …

Link: “Songbirds Warn Me That Ravens Are Angry,” by Alice B. Clagett, excerpted on 16 May 2024 from “Raven Herdsmen of the Wilds” by Alice B. Clagett
which was filmed and produced on 11 May 2024 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-xB7 ..

I note that just yesterday … 21 May 2024 … there was a similar incident. I was in my vehicle at an ATM in the San Fernando Valley. An angry Raven … whose tone of voice was like that of the Ravens in the video “Raven Herdsmen of the Wilds” that is referenced below … swooped down over my head.

On 19 May 2024 I outlined a soothing Salutation … the words “I LOVE youuuu” spoken in certain tones … at this link …

Link: “How to Assuage Hostile Birds,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed and published on 19 May 2024; revised on 22 May 2024 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-xEr ..

I used that Salutation when the angry Raven swooped down yesterday (and also at the restaurant by the ocean as described at the above-referenced link). In both cases, the angry Ravens went off right away, and no harm was done me.

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The video is below. After the video is an edited Summary.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

A Conversation with Five Handsome Ravens

Three handsome Ravens are perched on top of a dead tree next to the trail.

Middle Raven, sounding harsh and angry: “Hawk hawk hawk … Hawk hawk hawk …. Hawk hawk hawk hawk hawkhawk hawwwk hawk!

Me, happily: “Wow!”

Same Raven: “Hawk hawk hawk!”

Me, imitating their tone of voice: “Hawk hawk!”

Same Raven, sounding harsh: “Hawk!”

Me, happily: “Yeah!”

Same Raven, sounding harsh: “Hawk!”

Me, imitating the Raven’s tone of voice: “Hawk!!”

Same Raven, sounding harsh: “Hawk!”

Me, in a voice that is too high-pitched: “Hawk!”

Same Raven, sounding harsh: “Hawk hawk hawk!”

Me, happily: “Well spoken!”

[Two more Ravens swoop past in the sky.]

New Raven, harshly: “Hawk!”

First Raven, grumpily: “Eh!”

Me, happily: “Are they coming back over there?”

[The two new Ravens land next to the others on the dead tree.]

First Raven, harshly: “Eh hawk hawk … Eh!”

Me: “There you are! There you are!”

A Raven, harshly: “Hawk!”

Me, happily: “Wow!”

Me, attempting to sound harsh: “Hawk hawk!”

A Raven, half way between angry and bemused: “Hawk hawk!”

All the Ravens are facing towards a group of school children approaching from the other direction. I wonder if the angry Raven had an insult tossed its way by one of the children? I read that Crows have long memories, and will hold a grudge. I wonder if the angry Raven is remembering something one of the children did that the Raven took as an insult?

Me to Ravens: “Hawk hawk.”

Raven: “Hawk … hawk.”

Me to Ravens: “Dudes, how cool you are! Wow! Look at you! Wow!”

Raven, sounds a little harsh and a little amused: “Hawk, hawk.”

Me: “Wow!”

A Raven, muffled: “Hawk.”

Another Raven, muffled: “Hawk.”

A Raven: “Hawk.”

Another Raven: “Eh!”

Me, happily: “See you later! Bye bye! Bye bye!”

Raven: “Wawwk.”

Me, happily: “Ok get ready. Here I go again.”

Raven: “Wawwk.”

Me, happily: “That’s right!”

Ravens are discussing, in lower voices, the word “Wawwk.”

Me, happily, while walking: “Walk walk walk walk. Walk walk walk walk.” [I am hoping the Ravens will use the word ‘Walk’ when they talk to me, as do the Ravens that live near my house.]

Then I turn to see if the Ravens will say anything, but they do not. Then I start walking again. The schoolchildren are approaching single file; their teacher is at the front of the column of walking people. The people appear not to be paying much attention to the Ravens. One or two of the Ravens fly off.

Me, happily, while walking: “Walk walk walk walk.”

[The schoolchildren are walking past me.]

Raven, sounding a little sarcastic, and amused: “Hawk.”

Me, happily: “I heard that!”

Raven, bemused: “Wawwk.”

My Initial Impression of the Ravens I Met on the Trail

The next clip is where I am incorrectly analyzing what just happened. A Songbird in a bush nearby is trying, over and over again, to set me straight on what just happened.

After I figured out I had got it wrong in the video “Raven Herdsmen of the Wild” I made an excerpt of that video with new captions. The excerpt can be viewed here …

Link: “Songbirds Warn Me That Ravens Are Angry,” by Alice B. Clagett, excerpted on 16 May 2024 from “Raven Herdsmen of the Wilds” by Alice B. Clagett
which was filmed and produced on 11 May 2024 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-xB7 ..

The excerpt has more Songbird conversation than the clip in the original video. For that reason I advise looking at that.

For the sake of verisimilitude, Here is the transcript of the clip …

I was just teaching the Ravens “Walk walk walk walk.” One of them learned it. When one of them learns it, everybody learns it. But they did not want to admit it, maybe because it might be a sign of social stigma to talk to humans, do you not know? … as with the Nanday parakeets.

Two of the Ravens flew way off up the hill. While they were flying at a very safe distance from me, one of the Ravens … a kind of a ‘macho’ Raven … speaking out loud said roughly: “Ehhhhhhh!” And speaking telepathically he said sarcastically: “She teaches us, but she doesn’t know any Raven at all!”

So on the vocal plane I used one of the signs for water … three clucking sounds, like drops of water falling onto the ground or into a stream.

And the Raven signaled back telepathically, quite condescendingly: “All right then. She might know a little Raven.” [I laugh happily.]

I was all envy for the beautiful way the Ravens were flying around and spiraling around. One of them was spiraling on a thermal. and on the telepathic plane I was telling them how great they were … what great fliers they were. And the one that had learned “Walk walk walk” went on up there to show its ability to fly … which of course I admired very much.

And as the Raven flew up, it said vocally: “Walk walk walk.”

I laugh happily.

Story of the Ravens Swooping Down and Herding Me Away from a Danger

To continue with that Raven story about the “Walk walk walk,” I came down to a shady area here, and I thought I would just rest for a minute. As I sat down to rest, I heard something a little bit like a snarl. So naturally I was on the ‘look-out’.

I was just sitting there. And then the biggest Raven came along. It swooped down over my head. As it swooped it said “Walk!” in the most stern and danger-producing voice!

Two other Ravens came along very close. The big Ravens swooped down on me one by one, each one barking the command: “Walk! Walk!” … Exclamation point, “Walk!”

And so I got up and I started walking away very fast. The Ravens followed me along, and they urged me to walk faster. “Walk, walk walk!” So I did walk right fast.

The Ravens were herding me! They were shepherding me away from the animal that had snarled, which the Ravens said telepathically was “not too big … not too small.” What did that mean, I wonder?

Then in case they were not just playing games, I said, “Thank you very much! Thank you very much!” Then I said, “Bye” … because back at my house the Ravens have learned to say “Bye bye.” Then one of the Ravens that were following me said: “Bye.” [I laugh happily.]

These Ravens I encountered today are right wild. They are not used to human beings. But maybe they warned me. On the telepathic plane they said: “Something really bad is going on over there sometimes.” I do not know what it was.

Thoughts on Raven Family Groups

A few more thoughts on that Raven encounter: I was walking along after the “Walk WALK!” and the snarl episode. I got to thinking about why the Ravens scared me so, you know? They were so loud, and so close. Wow!

I heard the Mother Raven off in the distance … really different, very maternal, very loving … soft-voiced ,,, as is the case with the Nanday parakeet babies and their mothers and teachers. The Nanday babies are really loud and raucous; and the Mothers are ever so sweet … burbling and chirping … like that. And so I wondered why the Mother Ravens teach their babies to be so loud … so scary.

The Mother Raven was dreaming along with me. And I was thinking and dreaming that maybe they had to teach them that way so that they would appear to be fierce and so that no one would attack them while they were still young ones.

It seems to me that in the Raven clans … at least in Cheseboro and Palo Comado Canyon, California, for instance … there is one great leader of the clan … an ancient, very wise Raven … the very Eldest One. Then there are lots of Raven people in the clan. Then there are the young ones that are just learning to talk. And it is the Eldest that is teaching them to talk most of the time, because they cannot go on the great Hawk Soars most of the time.

In Cheseboro Canyon the Hawks soar way high and the fights are high up in the sky. The babies cannot go there, so they are left with the Elder … the Eldest … the Ancient One. He teaches them how many hawks there are in the conflict that is underway … things like that.

In the case of these Ravens in the Simi Hills it is a different situation, it seems. There is a group of Ravens. There are some fully grown, and then there are some young ones. It is a very successful group of Ravens. Then there is the Mother Raven who is very sweet. No doubt there are other Mother Ravens too. But those young ones there were in the Mother Raven’s charge. Maybe there is communal charge of the young.

Maybe Ravens Think of Us as Animals to Herd Since Our Language Is So Different from Their Own

In my Raven Speak dream, this Mother Raven had told the young Ravens that they should talk very loud. And then the young Ravens chimed in: “… to scare you. To get you to go fast” … like they would any other animal. You know?

So I got the feeling that the Ravens think we are right dumb, like all the other animals, because we do not speak Raven, don’t you know? I can certainly understand that, because all around the world the peoples of the human race … those that speak one language … without a doubt think that all the other peoples are right stupid because they do not speak that very language.

You can imagine the disparity between Raven and Hawk … in fact, between all the bird languages and, say, the language of the young mountain lion, which may be what I encountered today.

[Now you can hear the sound of a dog panting.] Approaching are two mammals: A man and his dog. I have to hang up!

The Sign-Off

I filmed this Sign-Off earlier, at the end of the section “My Initial Impression of the Ravens I Met on the Trail.” Then I moved the Sign-Off to here because so much else happened betwixt and between while I was on the trail.

That is all the Raven Speak for now.

God bless you all,
And keep you safe
And be with you
Through all your days.

See you at my website “Awakening with Planet Earth.”

[A Songbird is having a field day with this sign-off. Goodness is it laughing at me!]

They are laughing at me over there! I don’t know why!

I say: “https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com”

[Songbirds continue laughing uproariously.]

Did that Songbird just say: “Because we think you are pretty stupid!” ??

[To Ravens] “Dudes, Ravens! Stop! Wow! Soaring on the thermals! You guys are terrific! Look at you!” [Songbirds continue laughing uproariously. I am ignoring them right now, so that I can speak to the Ravens.] “Four Ravens soaring on the thermals! … five! … Wow!”

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Interspecies communication is a little bit tough to establish at first, don’t you know? It is a rocky road, but it is worth it!

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 11 May 2024 and published on 12 May 2024; transcribed on 23 May 2024

VIDEO CREDITS

“Raven Herdsmen of the Wilds”
by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 11 May 2024 and produced on 12 May 2024
Location: Simi Hills, CA
CC BY-SA 4.0 International

 

Music by Dmitrii Kolesnikov from Pixabay
“Inspiring” – Pixabay License

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