Ondeni

Beliefs

Ondeni Pantheon

The Blackbird

A major figure in the religion, the "goddess" commonly referred to as The Blackbird, The Tender to the Night, or the Crowbirther is usually represented by a pale girl with jet-black hair posed sullenly and surrounded by crows or ravens, usually either completely nude or covered in a blanket for black bird's feathers which run down to the ground like a cloak. Her face is adorned with four separate lines that either all run completely vertical near her cheeks, lips, and forehead, or in groups of two on the sides of her face to form a diamond-like shape. The Blackbird is primarily used in Ondenism to represent the positive features of darkness and the night, much like her counterpart, XXX, is meant to represent the positives of light and the day, though also is meant to represent the beauty that can be found in ugliness. Many statues and paintings of The Blackbird will feature the goddess hiding her face in shame, or with ugly, injured birds placed near her face and shoulders. Worship of The Blackbird is primarily symbolic, as with other deities within the religion. Though most worshipers do believe in the myths surrounding the goddess and her realness as a being,