I've always like Raven and never associated anything dark with them.

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In the dream I was in a diminsion with in a dimension I was also in Italy.  I was with a small friend of mine, she had auburn hair. We were being chased by "evil" ... I don't really know what they were some sort of evil force.  Anyway I said to my friend (and the strange thing is I don't have any friends with red or red tinted hair...) Let's go into this Italian Temple .  But it was a cathedral .... it sort of looked like the Roman Collosium ((Sorry for my horrible spelling >.<)) So we went in.  We ran up a set of biege stairs that were carved out of stone.  The stairs opened up to this room .  Inside the room were hundreds of thousands of books.  There were also a ton of carved statues, they were all of dragons, all sorts.  I look up at the vaulted ceiling and see a stained glass mosaic.  It's colors were amber,blue, and black.  It was a a stained glass mosaic of a mother raven.  It was a raven that had been soaring high and she was saving her kin.  She died doing so.  The mosaic captured her last moments of life.  She was in the sky with her head thrown up (to the right) to the sky.  Her beak was open and in the dream I heard her death cry (mentally).  I knew all about the raven and her circumstances just by looking at the mosaic.  

What do you guys think the raven symbolized ... I'm not too sure so I was wondering if anybody else had any ideas .... = P Thanks!

Heya Suki

My impression:

Cathedral - the dream is addressing something spiritual

The concept behind the raven, one who died to save its kin.  Sounds like the same concept as Jesus to me.

Cheers,
Rook