This is Huginn. Or Muninn.
It seems that I cannot make my mind so I will let you be the judge here.
A little bit of context might help you with this decision.
Huginn and Muninn are a pair of ravens originating from the Norse mythology.
Every day they fly all over the world in order to collect and gather pieces of information for which they later pass on to Odin, their master and main god in the Norse mythology.
In Old Norse:
- Huginn means thought
- Muninn means memory or mind
Let me break down all the elements in the picture.
1. The key in Huginn/Muninn’s beak symbolises all the knowledge they collect throughout the day and then disclose to Odin.
2. The left side of the picture, the blue sky and the clouds, shows the bright side of their daily work. Free birds wandering around the world as they please.
3. The right side of the picture, the wire mesh and the red color, shows a darker side of their daily flights.
The wire mesh has two meanings:
3.1 Even though they are free birds that get to travel the world every day and wander around, they still have to obey to Odin's commands and collect all types of information. In a way, we could say that they are prisoners in the skies.
3.2 It is also meant as a trap they might fall in or have to deal with during their journeys, hence the color red.
Indeed, during these adventures of their own, Huginn and Muninn face all kinds of danger that might lead one of them, or both, to death. It is important to keep in mind that they might not come back alive from these series of reconnaissance flights.
In the Poetic Edda (a collection of Old Norse anonymous poems), Odin, very much fear that something would happen to them.
November 16th 2018.
Michael.
