KAKKA- THECROW- PART 2 Dearfriends, This ispart 2 of the posting about crow.Part1 was posted yesterday. I am thankful to allthe members who responded to part 1 of the posting with lot of added information.I have added them to my posting. Let me continue more about crow.
Sincerely, Gopalakrishnan 12-1-2022. 8. Origin of the river -Kaveri. Once sageAgasthia was travelling towards South India. He transformed his wife LOPAMUDRA in to water,and poured in Kamandalu and was carrying her holding in the hand. Lopamudra desiredalways to become a river. So she had no objection for transforming her intowater. When itwas about sunset, sage kept Kamandalu on a rock, went to a small pond near it to perform sandhya. Lord Ganesha took the form of a crow. He came near the kamandalu. He tilted it. Through the spout waterstarted flowing like a river. This is the legend about the origin of riverKaveri. 9. Lord Saturn and the crow. Lord Saturnholds a crow in his hand. It is told to feed crows as a remedial measure toward off any ill effects occurring during Saturn’s period or Saturn’s subperiod. It isgood to feed crows. It is good to give them water to drink. Water in a small potcan be kept on terrace over parapet wall; it can be kept on compound wall orany other convenient location, where they could easily access. Many days I hadseen the crow’s drinking water falling from outlet of O/H tank. Withoutswitching OFF motor, I continue falling of water, till they fly off afterdrinking water. Beforecorona, when crows appeared more in the morning, I used to keep large biscuitpieces and water on compound wall. Most crows dipped biscuit bits in water andate. Now half the bits remains and eaten by ants. Crow is told as representingpithrus. 10. Crows and cawing In the pastwhile crows cawed, it was usual to say an indication of guests arriving or getting some letters. 70% this was correct at that time. Nowadays also I hear crows caw in the early morning. Afterwardsthey are mostly silenttill evening. Evening again they caw while going to nests. If I was awaken andsimply lying in bed, I too used to get up and start my posting works to groupshearing the cawing of crows in the morning. A lot ofcrows cawing together mean something serious has occurredto one among them. Mostly we could see a crow lying dead fallen from electricallines. Whilefinding good food, they caw a few times nowadays. Mostly they also would have changed theirpattern of living. The crows like eatables like salt biscuits , pappads, vadaetc. if we keep rice and biscuit bits crows will first consume biscuitsand not rice. Furtherthey estimate the quantity, caw once or twice only if the quantity is less.Silently as in a queue, they take biscuit bits and fly. Some take two in the mouth,if they were hungrier. The abovetold way of eating was before the Covid 19 began. 11. Kakka kan (Alert eyes) The eyesof the crows will suitably rotate to see everywhere. The crow is said to bevery vigil. Persons more vigil are said to be having eyes similar to crow. 12. kakkayutae svabhavam (Behaviour of crows) The crowwill not show intimacy or attachment with humans. There are some people, notbad, but would not show any intimacy. 13. Kakka karumbi. Thecolour of most crows is black. When a girl is black complexioned she is told as kakka karumbi. 14. Papads drying Whiledrying eatables like pappads, if we keepa black umbrella or hang a black cloth, crows do not come to eat it . Probably thecrows may be taking the cloth as a harmed crow. Exceptions are also there. 15. Kakka kuli. (Hurried bathing) It hasgot two meanings- one is taking bath in a hurried manner. If anybody finishbath hurriedly it is often told as kakka kuli. There isa belief - We should not watch the crow-taking bath. In-auspiciousinformation may come if we watch crow taking bath . It is not seeing, but watching. 16. Crow flying over the head. Normallycrows would fly at a height well above our height. But sometimes, it so happen,they may fly around a person without leaving him. I have read elsewhere, oneman used to wear helmet where ever he go to escape from crow hitting the head. I had an experienceof this type about a decade back. If I went to nearby park for morning walk, acrow might fly close to me. I felt some times its leg touched my head, and wings moved above me. It got repeated next day also.Without making trials, I stopped going to park for morning walk . The crownormally flies straight. Hence many times straight direction is told as crow flying direction. Crow willtake rest after flying for certain distance. Sometimes it is told as crowflying distance. I will continue in next posting -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/135895803.262918.1641995337608%40mail.yahoo.com.
