Huginn and Muninn are the most renowned raven pair. In Norse mythology, these two ravens accompanied the god, Odin. Huginn represented the power of thought and active pursuit of knowledge, while Muninn represented the intuitive part of the mind.
Every morning, Odin would send these two ravens out into the world, and each evening they returned to tell him of the many things they’d seen and learned.
Many scholars believe that Huginn and Muninn’s role as Odin’s messengers are symbols of his shamanic practices. Odin sending his thought (Huginn) and mind (Muninn) into a trance-state journey into the Underworld by way of the Norse concepts of “fylgja” (the animal spirit) and “hamingja” (the altered appearance of a shape-shifter).
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