Among animals, and particularly birds, charged with symbolic significance linked to the sacred, the owl is one of the most striking. Your post, @ladyrebecca, gives us extensive information about this symbolic and enigmatic character, in mythology and popular knowledge.

In literature (my field) it has had very revealing appearances. For example, in Latin American literature, a Mexican poet named Enrique González Martínez (from the late 19th century), with regard to his critique of Rubén Darío's Modernism and the figure of the swan, writes these verses in a poem entitled "Twist the neck of the swan":

Watch the wise owl spread his wings
from Olympus, leave the lap of Palas
and poses on that tree the taciturn flight. . .

He does not have the grace of a swan, but his restlessness
pupil, that nails itself in the shade, interprets
the mysterious book of nocturnal silence.

Enigmatic, attractive in its plumage and gaze, the owl will continue to be one of the most interesting birds of natural and symbolic zoology.

Thank you for your post, @ladyrebecca.