# The eye that mocks ... mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and will be eaten by the vultures "The ravens of the valley will peck out the eyes of the person who mocks ... mother, and the vultures will eat them" # scorns obedience to a mother "considers his mother worthless and will not obey her" # ravens large, shiny, black birds that eat plants and dead animals # vultures any one of several large birds that eat dead animals and have small, featherless heads