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Farmer's Power Animals.​ I love so many things about this book. Information from Ted Andrews's Animal-Speak, Jessica Dawn Palmer's Animal Wisdom, and Steven D. Owls, as they always have, continue to be a source of wisdom, spiritual and intellectual. There are myths and legends from all over the world, from the Americas to the Far East. The Mayans called the screech owl of the Yucatan “the moan bird,” and believed that it meant death. This was and still remains the easiest bird call to imitate. This was due to certain peoples, like the Dakota, and some Germanic tribes and Scandinavian Vikings, who would signal the approach of attack with the hoot of an owl. In Europe and America, owl was seen as a harbinger of death. There are many superstitions surrounding the owl, many of which focus on death. While the Lakota tribe had an “Owl Society,” where the warriors fought primarily at night and painted dark rings around their eyes because they believed that would allow them to have an owl’s acute vision. The Pawnee and the Sioux saw the owl as a messenger (akicita) to the first of all evil creatures (Unktehi). Diana, the Roman response to Athena, was strongly associated with the moon, and also the owl. In Ancient Greece, the owl was a symbol of a higher wisdom, and it was also a guardian of the Acropolis. According to myth, an owl sat on Athena’s blind side, so that she could see the whole truth.

The owl was a symbol for Athena, goddess of wisdom and strategy, before the Greeks gave their pantheon human forms. It becomes a symbol of the feminine and fertility, with the moon’s cycles of renewal.Įven the mythology relates owl to this wisdom and femininity. Related to the night is the moon, which owls are also connected to. Owls live within the darkness, which includes magic, mystery, and ancient knowledge. Owls are often seen as mysterious, mostly because many owls are strictly nocturnal and humans have always found night to be full of mystery and the unknown. However, there are other qualities that owl has. Rather than intellectual wisdom, though, owls are connected with the wisdom of the soul. Through pop culture references, like Winnie the Pooh, and through folklore, we all associate owls with wisdom at some time or other.