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Cultural Myths About Herons
Celtic: In Welsh the heron, crane and stork were all called creyr. These birds were seen as a symbol of life and death. They brought` babies, like the stork of the Netherlands, but Also were an ill omen of death. Warriors would put heron images on Their armor to scare the enemy. Crane-headed goblins were thought to haunt marshes. Some heron images show up on pre-roman celtic coins. They are shown riding or perching on ponies. This could be That in Africa similar to egrets perch on water buffalo to eat the insects stirred up by them. In the Irish legend of the Cailleach an Teampuill (the hag of the temple), her four sons Appear as cranes who can only regain human form by a sprinkle of bull's blood.
There was a taboo on the eating of cranes and herons, for the birds might be the souls of the departed, and by eating anything linked to death, you would soon die or at least be forced to stay in the otherworlds.
Egyptian:
Phoenix (Bennu, Benu) Appearance: The Bennu bird was a large imaginary bird resembling a heron. The bird may be modeled on the gray heron (Ardea cinera) or the larger Goliath heron (Ardea goliath) that lives on the coast of the Red Sea. It had a two long feathers on the crest of it's head and was Often crowned with the Atef crown of Osiris (the White Crown
with two ostrich plumes on either side) or with the disk of the sun. Meaning: The Bennu was the sacred bird of Heliopolis. Bennu probably derives from the word weben, meaning "rise" or "shine." The Bennu was associated with the sun and the Represented or ba Soul of the sun god, Re. The Bennu was Also associated with the inundation of the Nile and of the creation. Standing alone on isolated rocks of islands of high ground During the floods the heron Represented the first life to appear on the primeval mound Which rose from the watery chaos at the first creation. This mound was called the ben-well. It was the Bennu bird's cry at the creation of the world That marked the beginning of time. The Bennu was Also Considered a manifestation of the resurrected Osiris and the bird was perched Often shown in His sacred willow tree. The Bennu was known as the legendary phoenix to the Greeks. Herodotus, the Greek historian, says the Following about the Bennu: "Another sacred bird is the phoenix; I have not seen a phoenix myself, except in paintings, for it is very rare and only visits the country (so they say at Heliopolis) only at intervals of five hundred years, on the occasion of the death of the parent bird. " Herodotus goes on to record That the Bennu bird came from Saudi every 500 years carrying His father's body in Embalmed an egg of myrrh. However this Arabian bird was said to resemble an eagle with brilliant gold and red plumage. Before the phoenix It died it built a nest of incense twigs and laid down in it and died. From its body a small worm Emerged That the sun's heat Transformed into the new phoenix. Another story says That the phoenix rose again from the burnt and decomposing remains of His old body and took to These Heliopolis, where he burned them. The planet Venus was called the "star of the ship of the Bennu-Asar "(Asar is the Egyptian name of Osiris). The Bennu was Also sometimes associated with Upper Egypt.
Shamanic Meaning of the Heron
Some people think the heron's spiritual qualities include strong independence, patience, determination, keen alertness, success in the hunt, aggression, and the ability to walk in two worlds, along the edges of things magical. A heron is comfortable in water, mud, sunlight and the offshore wind, so the elements are at its disposal. Fairy folk who love the fringes will honor this totem. The creator gods and goddesses who needed assistants to find the earth When all was hidden under the waters of chaos in trans-siberian lore, used diving birds such as loons, eider ducks, and cranes.
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