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It is only with the development of alchemy that he recovers some of the aspects of his primitive symbology: here the raven is the nigredo or initial state, as a quality inherent in the "first matter." This state is one provoked by the division of the elements (putrefactio). Within the alchemical symbology, the crow maintains a certain allegorical representation of Solidion; the isolation of the one who lives on a plane superior to the others.