What’s the Deal With all the Crows on the UW Bothell Campus? – “The Myth of the Crows”

For the past week, I have had the opportunity to create a unique myth with a few of my fellow classmates. Our task was to create a myth that would explain an aspect of the UW Bothell campus using typical themes like: the creation of something from nothing, to explain the world, to explain values, to record history, or entertainment. For our creation myth, we decided to explain the purpose of the numerous amounts of crows on our campus.

The myth starts off with a mysterious egg that is pushed out of the ground. By Death. From that egg hatches three crows: one dumb crow, one strong crow, and one smart crow. Each night thereafter, they go back to the place they were born and pay respects to their creator. One night however, the dumb crow did not show up to pay respects to Death and it was killed in revenge. The other two crows were scared for their lives as well so they decided to make more of themselves so that more crows would be able to show respect to Death.

So whenever you are on the UW Bothell campus and see plenty of crows flying around in the sky, you know the reason is because they have come to pay respects to their creator: Death.

Written by Austin Aiona