the owl
animal · 4 works · 6 mentions · 12 anchored passages
owl · O owl · long-haired one · owls · she · the bird
spoken of as
2 expressionsOwl3 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Characters (Greek)
O long-haired one, do not address the village with auspicious speech.
Owls1 mention
Characters (Greek)
And if, as he walks, owls hoot, he is alarmed and says "Athena is mightier" before he passes on.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Bird of ill omen addressed and dispatched with a curse-carrying formula.
O long-haired one, do not address the village with auspicious speech.
In the house of King Yama, your gaming with sand shall be your portion, and a mouse shall nibble it away.
Speak only away, speak away, following the westward-facing year, as if in Yama's house, sapless, staring out, lodged there, staring out.
Orations
A bird used throughout as an extended analogy for the speaker himself, associated with Athena and used by fowlers as a decoy.
But the birds disbelieved her words, and thought her foolish, and said that she was mad;
Whence, I suppose, Aesop also composed the fable that, being wise, the owl advised the birds, when the oak was first springing up, not to allow it but to destroy it by every means;
For that bird, though it is no wiser than the others and no finer to look at, but is exactly the sort of creature we know it to be, is courted by the rest of the birds whenever it utters its mournful and altogether unpleasant cry;
Birds
The owl, both a member of the assembling Chorus and, separately, cited as Athena's sacred attendant bird.
Epops:
The owl will not attack us then.
And who is it brings an owl to Athens?
Characters
Birds whose hooting alarms the superstitious man and prompts a protective invocation of Athena.
And if, as he walks, owls hoot, he is alarmed and says "Athena is mightier" before he passes on.