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My very first owl 🦉 design what do you think?

✨ ‍️ Wizard of Wisdom ✨ - Celtic Lore considers the owl  a guardian of integrity. The owl 🦉 is a wise warrior whose wisdom bestowed it the knowledge to the Underworld location, ancient Egyptian and Hindu cultures believed the same. The owl  has night vision and as such acts as messenger between our world and the heavens. The Celts’ also revere the owl as an emblem of the fertility goddess and the owl is depicted on clothing and home décor. The owl is also a emblem of the Celts’ ancient fertility goddess, appearing in various household items, clothes, and animal enclosures.

The goddess of knowledge, Athena, considered the owl as sacred, the owl is sacred to the Greek goddess of learning, Athena and is even depicted on some Ancient Greeks used the owl on currency as a symbol of prestige, intellect and prosperity.

Native Americans consider the owl a symbol of wisdom, prudence, and guardian of sacred knowledge, because the owl processes the ability to predict the weather. Native American folklore tells of the owl bestowed upon them the ability to use this vision during rituals when the needed the prophet of secret knowledge. Also its ability to see at night is legend among the Native Americans, and this attribute would be invoked during ceremonies when an oracle of secret knowledge was required.

The owl is a messenger of secrets , and related to sorcerers, seers and shamans in West African and Aboriginal Australian cultures. Medieval Europeans folklore tells of the owl’s secret identity being a witch ‍or wizard ‍️.

 I wonder if this is why Harry Potter depicts the owl as a messenger and able to communicate with sorcerers? ✨

☯️ Symmetry is another manifestation of the balance of Yin and Yang, of the unimpeded flow of ch'i. ☯️

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