Crane Goddess please??

[Willow Rosette]

A crane Goddess?? I know she came to me as a crane today while at work. I saw her with y own two eyes, I blinked and the bird was just poof gone. Does any one know of a Goddess that has a magical animal of a crane? I know it was her. I was having a horrible morning and I said please Goddess I need you. I blinked and there she was. But I cant gind any Goddess' in my book associate with cranes. Any ideas please??

[cinatus]

Look in japanese mythology. Lots of cranes there.

[Willow Rosette]

Thats what I figured but I couldnt find any in my book.

[tarotgirljess]

googled real quick and got this:

The crane was sacred to Delian Apollo and, before Apollo, to the Sun-hero Thesus.
Celtic:
The gods fled, disguised in bestial forms: "Mercury into an ibis, Apollo into a crane, a Thracian bird, Diana into a cat."

CORRA : Scottish, A Goddess of prophecy who usually appeared in the form of a crane.
African
Kono
A bird goddess, she is the ancestor deity of the Senufu people of the Ivory Coast and Mali. She is worshipped in teh form of a large crested crane.
AIFE: Scottish Warrior Goddess who stole a magick alphabet from the deities and gave it to humans. For this act and her meaness she was turned into a crane. Sacred to Aife: The crane, the lance.
Many birds and orther creatures were sacred to Brigid,

Additionally, because migrating cranes often fly at night, by the light of the moon, they are also associated with the Moon Goddess Artemis. The Crane also is sacred to Apollo, who once changed into one.

Hope thyat helped or at least gives you a place to start.
Jess

[Willow Rosette]

Thank you so much. Im going to look them up and see what I find. Why is it anyone else can find something on google except me? LMAO Thank You Thank You

[Philosophia]

Aife: Scottish Warrior Goddess who stole a magick alphabet from the deities and gave it to humans. For this act and her meaness she was turned into a crane. Sacred to Aife: The crane, the lance.
From: http://inanna.virtualave.net/celtic.html


CorraScottish, A Goddess of prophecy who usually appeared in the form of a crane.
From: http://www.rac-usa.org/wau/celticgoddess.html

Myth and Lore
The cranes' beauty and their spectacular mating dances have made them highly symbolic birds from earliest times. Crane myth is as widely separated and universal as the Aegean, South Arabia, Japan and Amerindian North America. In northern Hokkaido, the women of the Ainu people, whose culture is more Siberian than Japanese, performed a crane dance that was captured in 1908 in a photograph by Arnold Genthe. In Korea, a crane dance has been performed in the courtyard of the Tongdosa Temple since the Silla Dynasty (646 CE).
In Mecca, in pre-Islamic South Arabia, the goddesses Allat, Uzza, and Manah, who were believed to be daughters of and intercessors with Allah, were called the "three exalted cranes" (gharaniq, an obscure word on which 'crane' is the usual gloss). See The Satanic Verses for the best-known story regarding these three goddesses.
The Greek for crane is Γερανος (Geranos), which gives us the Cranesbill, or hardy geranium. The crane was a bird of omen. In the tale of Ibycus and the cranes, a thief attacked Ibycus (a poet of the 6th century BCE) and left him for dead. Ibycus called to a flock of passing cranes, who followed the murderer to a theater and hovered over him until, stricken with guilt, he confessed to the crime.
Pliny the Elder wrote that cranes would appoint one of their number to stand guard while they slept. The sentry would hold a stone in its claw, so that if it fell asleep it would drop the stone and waken.
Aristotle describes the migration of cranes in The History of Animals, adding an account of their fights with Pygmies as they wintered near the source of the Nile. He describes as untruthful an account that the crane carries a touchstone inside it that can be used to test for gold when vomited up. (This second story is not altogether implausible, as cranes might ingest appropriate gizzard stones in one locality and regurgitate them in a region where such stone is otherwise scarce)
A crane is the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for the letter "B." Also, the word "pedigree" comes from the Old French phrase, "pie de grue", which means "foot of a crane", as the pedigree diagram looks similar to the branches coming out of a crane's foot. The historical Aztec people of South America get their name from cranes. Aztecs are people from the region Aztlán which literally means "near the cranes" (azta cranes, tlan near).
A pair of Red-crowned Cranes in the Tokyo zoo.A crane is considered auspicious in Japan, as one of the symbols of longevity and represented with other symbols of long life, the pine and bamboo, and the tortoise. In feudal Japan the crane was protected by the ruling classes and fed by the peasants. When the feudal system was abolished in the Meiji era of the 19th century, the protection of cranes was lost. With effort they have been brought back from the brink of extinction. Japan has named one of their satellites tsuru (crane, the bird). If one folds 1000 origami cranes, according to tradition, one's wish for health will be granted. Since the death of Sadako Sasaki this applies to a wish for peace as well.
For traditional Chinese 'heavenly cranes' (tian-he) or 'blessed cranes' (xian-he) were messengers of wisdom. Legendary Taoist sages were transported between heavenly worlds on the backs of cranes.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_(bird)

Mahavidya Bagalamukhi. The crane-headed devi is a cruel (krura) aspect of the goddess and this hymn is used to paralyse the prattling speech of enemies, or disconnected parts of the psycho-physical complex.
From: http://www.shivashakti.com/goddess.htm

Last in the row of gods sat Hermes, a son of Zeus. Hermes was the god of merchants, bankers, thieves, fortune tellers, and heralds. His throne was cut out of a single piece of solid grey rock, the arms shaped like rams' heads, and a goatskin for the seat. On its back he had carved a swastika, this being the shape of a fire-making machine invented by him - the fire drill. Hermes also invented the alphabet; and one of his emblems was the crane, because cranes fly in a V - the first letter he wrote. Another of Hermes's emblems was a peeled hazel stick, which he carried as the messenger of the Olympians.
From:
http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/BLP/websites/ROBMATULEWICZ/gods.html

The Crane -- One late Celtic tradition (apparently originated after the arrival of Christianity) stated that Cranes were people paying penance for wrong-doing. The Crane was associated with Lir, the Celtic Sea-God, who made his bag from the skin of this bird. The Crane was also sacred to the Triple Goddess and sometimes known as the "Moon Bird." It symbolized shamanic travel, the learning and keeping of secrets and the search for deeper mysteries and truth.
From: http://www.novareinna.com/constellation/rowan.html

Links:
http://www.blueroebuck.com/crane.htm
http://www.clannada.org/animals_birds.php
Athene: http://www.fjkluth.com/minos.html
http://www.fjkluth.com/pasiphae.html
http://www.novareinna.com/constellation/rowan.html
Demeter:
http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/goddess_symbols_demeter.htm
Brigit: http://www.mythicimages.com/printbrigit.htm
http://www.purplegoddessinfrogpyjamas.net/?p=319
http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/legend01/crane.htm

[Theres]

how about Lilith...

Lilith Crane? :hehehehe:

[Willow Rosette]

LOL Im not sure if she would exactly be considered a Goddess. LMAO maybe more like ummm a maltious (sp?) sprite or something. Thank you all so much for all the love and support you have given me. I really dont know what I would do with out you.

[adazakura]

i know the crane definately had something to do with egypt.....

erm.. and wasnt it the symbol of astrology...and the letter B?


and the crane symbol of mercury translates to Thoth and the ibis in Egypt...

intersting random crane fact i found on wikipedia:
Aztecs are people from the region Aztlán which literally means "near the cranes" (azta cranes, tlan near).

this site tells you about the korean crane dance
http://web.archive.org/web/20041010053428/http://www.yscity.or.kr/yangsan-city/sub_1doc/e_sub/sub4/main_01_4.htm

random i know but good to research the animal if it relates to your deity...

if you ever need to look something up i recommend you use wikipedia as it tells you lots and links you to other places on the web to use!

[Willow Rosette]

"Near the cranes" That is beautiful. Thank you so much. I used to be a huge cow person and in the last year or two have veered away from that. I thought I was going to butterflies, since that is what I have a tat of on my back. But last night Galena sent me a link that had crane songs on it and I knew I would be learning from this beautiful bird. Their song was so magical and musical I couldnt believe it. Short of my daughters voice I have never heard a sound so beautiful and touching. Thank you so much.