What does the owl stand for?

There is a folk saying in our country that "night owls enter the house, but they are afraid of night owls laughing if they are not afraid of their barking". Owls are often regarded as "ominous birds", called soul-chasing birds and mourning birds. In ancient books, they are also called strange owls, ghost cars, ghosts or wanderers as symbols of bad luck and death. The reason for these views may be that owls are very strange, and their eyes are big, round and bright, which makes people feel scared; Ears erect, like a mythical two-horned monster, made the ancients use "eye-catching tiger kiss" to describe cruelty; The owl's cry in the dark is as gloomy and desolate as a ghost, which makes people feel even more horrible. In ancient times, it was called "a bird with a bad voice". In Shuo Yuan Xiao Ming moves eastward, "the owl meets the pigeon and says," I want to migrate, and the west hates my voice. ..... "Fable. In addition, owls lie down during the day and come out at night, flying silently like ghosts, and often only see a flash of shadow, which also makes people who don't know much about their behavior have all kinds of terrible associations. Love birds, the goddess of wisdom in ancient Greek mythology, was a small owl (a kind of owl, which was considered to predict events), so the ancient Greeks regarded the owl as a symbol of Athena and wisdom. Japan In Japan, the owl is called a lucky bird, and it has also become the mascot of the Nagano Winter Olympics, representing auspiciousness and happiness. People are afraid of owls and think they can be used to exorcise evil spirits. Accordingly, Thomas, who killed the owl, used the simulated image of the owl to suppress evil. Britain In Britain, people think that eating burnt owl eggs and grinding them into powder can correct their eyesight. Yorkshire people think that soup made of owls can cure whooping cough. The descendants of Vancouver Indians in Canada still retain the totem dance of owls, which not only has the image of large woodcarving owls, but also dances. The dancer's costume pattern is an owl, covered with its prey, the mouse. Other such contradictory concepts can be found in Shakespeare's time. In his plays Julius Caesar and Macbeth, he predicted death with the cry of an owl; However, in the play in the futility of love, the owl sang a "happy song". As a literary metaphor, owls can be found in ancient myths, the Old Testament and the works of Hemingway and Milne.