the crow
animal · 5 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages
a crow · crow · a cawing crow · congress of a crow · eye-plucking crow · son of Indra in bird form · son of Śakra · that bird
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (English) · Orations (Greek) · Works and Days (Greek)
*, with the head of the one towards the feet of the other and carry on this congress, it is called the "congress of a crow.
in the texts
Birds
The other guide-bird bought from Philocrates, used by Pisthetaerus to try to find the way to Epops, and lost when it flies away in the panic.
To his crow.
It flew away.
By Zeus, it no longer croaks the same thing it did.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A crow, said to be the son of Indra, that pecked at Sītā at Citrakūṭa and was struck with Brahmā's weapon by Rāma but spared.
"You hurled that blazing reed at the crow;
'Brahmā's weapon cannot be made fruitless;
"Then he struck out the right eye of that crow.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
A crow used both as a purity example and as the namesake of an inverted-position congress.
*, with the head of the one towards the feet of the other and carry on this congress, it is called the "congress of a crow.
A bird is clean when it causes a fruit to fall from a tree by pecking at it, though things eaten by crows and other birds are considered unclean.
*, the Indian Cupid), and offer oblations to other Deities, and having caused a pot filled with water to be brought by her friends, she should perform the worship in honour of the crow who eats the offerings which we make to the manes of deceased relations.
Orations
A crow used by the Phrygian man as a source of an omen, later inadvertently causing his injury.
And when he saw a crow, drawing an omen from it — for the Phrygians are clever at such things — he throws a stone and somehow hits it.
Works and Days
A crow whose cawing presence on an unfinished house is treated as an ill omen.
When you are building a house, do not leave it rough hewn, or a cawing crow may settle on it and croak.