The Symbolism of the Magpie

The magpie was originally called maggie pie or mag pie and the term mag is a root word, from which derives "magician, learned magician". There is some conjecture that the nursery rhyme “Four and twenty black birds baked in a pie” actually refers to the mag pie. The ‘pie’ in this context is a collection of 24 divisions based on Constellations and thus a measure of time. As measures of time, the rising and setting of 'decans' marked 'hours', but the hours were not of fixed length. It was Hipparchus [the Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician] who gave us the “Equinoctial hours” by proposing the division of a day into 24 equal hours. But Hipparchus could not have achieved what he did without the aid of Babylonian astronomy, of which he displays a knowledge far deeper than any Greek before or after him. The rich blue colour of a magpie's feathers, indicates very advanced spirituality – blue is the colour of spirit. So when the term ‘ruler’ is used to describe these Constellations, it was meant literally, these men were ‘god’ like rulers in their wisdom and knowledge. Overall, any magician who used the magpie as his emblem was both a black and a white shaman, capable of shape shifting or going out of body, and a healer and prophet - a very powerful person.
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CREDITS

8th August 1918 – Will Longstaff
Monet – Magpie
Kirk Reinert
kernspalt deviant art
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Journey of the Magi – James Tissot
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magpie-in-flight-By-Rafal-Szozda

VIDEO AND AUDIO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE

Eurasian Magpie Call & Sounds
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=y4pbkXIQyyg

Magpie Sound - Pica Pica
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=UqloxMJzxQw

Bird magpie laughs
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=7tAak98cFGU

Magpie Bird Black And White Feeding Tree Flapping No Copyright Video
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=BzKm4xBUKMA

Magpie Death Ritual
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=60Zg9sGnQf8

Magpies Playing With Windmills! | Australia
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=G7sT3WLId6Q&list=RDEV4qZ_lgStw

Elster(Eurasian magpie) || No Copyright || free to use by copyright free vf
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=dvgAmX2816w

Magpie Hangs Upside Down
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=EV4qZ_lgStw

Training with the British Army in Picardy, May 1918 77th Division
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WJiwyjI3X38

Eurasian Magpie Calls
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=AERiozW_KrU

A magpie caught stealing our candles
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=L9BDrHEO9zs

MUSIC

00:00 Birdseye Blues - Chris Haugen
01:50 Gently, Onwards - ELPHNT

05:10 Forest Walk by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

08:02 Celtic Raven Legend by Ean Grimm
09:18 Birds in Flight - Dan Lebowitz
10:48 Island Summer Breeze - Coyote Hearing

12:03 "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" classic
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Dksg19eCAv0

12:39 Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100181
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

13:43 One For Sorrow (HD) | Mambo Musical Style | Nursery Rhymes | Popular Kids Songs
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=eOneAz62aAA