Image: “Raven Sweet Water Courtship Dance,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 September 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

• INTRODUCTION
• VIDEO BY ALICE
• SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • The Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance (uncut)
  • The Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance (clips)
    • Clip 1 (which is repeated once)
    • Sidebar: How the Meaning of the Raven Words ‘Walk, walk, walk!’ Changed from Raven to Raven
    • Clip 2
    • Clip 3 (which is repeated once)
    • Clip 4 (which is repeated once)
    • Clip 5 (which is repeated once)
    • Clip 6 of Hummingbird (regular speed)
    • Clip 6 of Hummingbird (at speed 0.125x)
  • Comments
  • Conclusion
• VIDEO CREDITS

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

Here is an extraordinary HD video that documents the Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance.

It could be that the Ravens began this Courtship Dance because of a pool party that was taking place at the residence down the hill from where I live. It could have been the music that was being played at the party, or maybe the sound of happy conversation amongst the young people at the party.

There is a Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

NOTE: There is another version of this video that may be SD at this link … https://youtu.be/cZeOVHQtUoo ..

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

The Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance
By Alice B. Clagett

Hello, Dear Ones, This is Alice. I Am of the Stars.

This video is called “The Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance.”

The Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance (uncut)

[You must view this video to see the action-packed Dance performance.]

Alice to Readers: Father Raven is on the right. Mother Raven is on the left.

Alice to Ravens: Whoa! Beautiful! New Hrafns! Very famous Hrafns!

[Father Raven, who was sitting on the telephone line next to Mother Raven, wipes his beak on the telephone line, then walks away from her and up the telephone line.]

Alice to Ravens: ‘Bye, you guys! Bye!

Father Raven says telepathically to Alice: Follow me, not her!

Alice: Bye!

I pan to Father Raven. He pecks slowly, over and over again, in a formal manner, on the telephone line.

I pan to Mother Raven. She bows her head so that her beak touches the telephone line, makes a water gulping ‘Woof’ sound, then lifts her head, ripples her neck muscles, and fluffs her head and neck feathers as if she were drinking. She does this over and over again.

Father Raven backs back down the telephone line. When he gets near Mother Raven he wipes his beak off several times on the telephone line.

Alice to Readers: Father Raven rejoins Mother Raven on the telephone line. He begins to say: CLUCK-cluck-cluck CLUCK-cluck-cluck CLUCK-CLUCK.

This is not really the phonetic pronunciation of his song; it is just a distant approximation. You need to listen for slight variations in rhythm, enunciation, and melody. These variations convey different verbal messages.

Father Raven to Mother Raven: K-k-k-k-k-k-k-p!

Alice to Readers: Father Raven says to Mother Raven one more time: CLUCK-cluck-cluck CLUCK-cluck-cluck CLUCK-CLUCK.

Hummingbird flies past the dancers zip zip!, while vocalizing.

Mother Raven opens her beak as she gazes at Father Raven, who lifts his head upward a little.

The Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance (clips)

Clip 1 (which is repeated once): Father Raven pecks slowly, over and over again, in a formal manner, on the telephone line.

Alice to Readers: This is Father Raven. You see how he is using his beak? That means he is walking around. The Raven word for that today is: Walk, walk, walk! He is walking around. He is looking around for a Raven friend.

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Sidebar: How the Meaning of the Raven Words ‘Walk, walk, walk!’ Changed from Raven to Raven

Hawk Fighter, the Father Raven that used to be in this locale used the term ‘Walk, walk, walk’ when he saw a Mother Hawk nearby. He wanted me to walk outside and ‘start’ the Hawk from its perch so that he could engage the Hawk in aerial combat. His intention was to upset the Hawk so that it would disgorge its food. Then the Raven or his wife would grab the food in midair so that they could eat it or feed it to their nestlings.

But this Raven pair you are viewing today use the term ‘Walk, walk, walk’ differently. They speak these words when they are leaving their tree, or when they are approaching my house. That gives me a ‘heads up’ that they are awake early in the morning, and then later that they are visiting me.

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Clip 2: Mother Raven bows her head so that her beak touches the telephone line, makes a water gulping ‘Woof’ sound, then lifts her head, ripples her neck muscles, and fluffs her head and neck feathers as if she were drinking. She does this over and over again.

Alice to Readers: Mother Raven makes the sound of a Raven gulping water.

Clip 3 (which is repeated once): Father Raven backs back down the telephone line. When he gets near Mother Raven he wipes his beak off several times on the telephone line.

Alice to Readers: Father Raven backs down the telephone line till he gets near Mother Raven. Then he wipes his beak on the telephone line a few times, as if to say ‘Stop walking’ … or in modern English, ‘I stop walking.’

Clip 4 (which is repeated once): Father Raven (on the right) says to Mother Raven: CLUCK-cluck-cluck CLUCK-cluck-cluck CLUCK-CLUCK.

Alice to Readers: That is the male Raven on the right. The sound of his voice means ‘You are my Sweet Water’. That is the sound of water running in a brook in the mountains: “You are my Sweet Water.”

Clip 5 (which is repeated once): Father Raven says to Mother Raven: K-k-k-k-k-k-k-p!

Alice to Readers: Father Raven says ‘Drink!’ You can hear him speaking it phonetically. He is speaking English: Drink!

Clip 6 of Hummingbird (regular speed): Hummingbird flies past the dancers zip zip!, while vocalizing. She says to the Ravens:

Alice to Readers: Father Hummingbird zooms past, saying very quickly: So GOOD! So GOOD! So GOOD! So GOOD!

Clip 6 of Hummingbird (at speed 0.125x): Father Hummingbird to Ravens: Father Hummingbird: Aw, SO GOOD! … Ohhh, so GOOD. Aw, so GOOD!

I’ll fly by. I’ll talk soft talk. I’ll FLY BY!

Alice to Readers: Hummingbird just let me know that what it meant (in vernacular English) was: REAL good, real good, real good!

Alice to Readers: That is the cheering audience there!

Comments

You know, this is an incredible performance. It really points out how deep dance goes in portraying the mythology of a species’ tradition. It truely does. It is the same with human dance.

You can learn so much about the fundament of a civilization by viewing their dance.

The Ravens’ dance form expresses their deep connection with Earth herself … with the sacred import of the simple things of their existence.

How import the water is for survival of the Ravens! How important love is!

To the Ravens, courtship and mating have the same amount of longing in them as does the desire for water. It is that deep. It is that great!

It is not a matter of small import … of choosing this Raven one day and another Raven the next. The Raven Father and Mother are bonded as deeply as our physical beingness is bonded to the need for water in order to survive.

Pretty cool, huh? Very cool. I mean, what could humans learn from that, in these days? It might save our lives to learn what the Ravens know! Don’t you feel it to be so?

Conclusion

[I am sitting on the roof of my house.]

Alice to Readers: This is a rooftop view. I almost feel like a Raven.

Songbird expresses shock and surprise.

Alice to Readers: The Ravens are up here every morning. When they land, right at dawn, I hear ‘Thump!’ They are the first folks to wake up in the morning.

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

Filmed on 1 September 2024 and published on 2 September 2024; youtube transcripts for both the HD and the SD version were edited on 10 September 2026

VIDEO CREDITS

“The Ravens’ Sweet Water Courtship Dance”
Video and commentary by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 1 September 2024 and produced on 2 September 2024
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA

CC BY-SA 4.0 International

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