From my previous discussion about owls; I mostly focused on claiming them as death. True enough, but something is still vague from my ideas; especially claiming all of these species as death. To be specific, the classification of death may turn out to be false. It is ironic to make an existing claim (but somehow original) and you will just falsify it. Majority of the information that is shared in the internet convey owl as a symbol for death or associated with death. From other account, they view them as “birds of worldly wisdom or prophecies”, since this is due to the association with the Greek goddess of wisdom, Pallas Athena.
From my very first discussion about these birds, I mentioned that they are also human spirits or souls rather. Majority of the cultural beliefs, they consider owls as the human souls after their deaths. I find it hard to believe, since we human beings die and decay. Thus our soul may go to heaven or hell, maybe reincarnation to some cultures, or the paradise itself. Following the scientific belief, all living things follow the cycle; wherein we live, age, and eventually die from a particular death. The creativity of each culture makes human living more meaningful, but from my previous discussion about symbolisms and representation this only creates manipulations that will be passed to the succeeding generations. From that bit of information; it entails the restriction of human freedom towards animal understanding. It is sad to view owls being slaughtered nowadays due to their cultural profiles. Now we see how dangerous it is to create cultural profiles without researching.
I found this entertaining article entitled “Birdlife: Spooky myths about owls” by Marcia Davis from knoxnews. The article itself mostly discussed about owls as the human souls. However, the author claimed that the most feared owl is the barn owl, since she described it’s face as pale which somehow resembled as a human skull or simply a ghost. Most of all barn owls earned the title as the “bird of doom” or the “ghost owl.” At some point, not only that the owl earned the title due to is face features, but also its screeches at night. Several beliefs say said that people turn into owls as a punishment itself and somehow nailed into doors to ward off lighting, hail, and evil entities.
Inhabitants of America especially the Indians, believed that owls are the guardians of the spiritual world. To elaborate, the article stated that the “guardians” catch human souls and sends them to the underworld; others view them as wandering ghosts who are not satisfied to go to the next stage of life. Some Indians give their dead colleagues some owl feathers in order to have contact with their personal guardian towards the afterlife. Other cultures do crazy things to ward off these owls; like farmers walking naked in their fields to scare them off. Others throw salt to the birds of doom to scram. Lastly for Mexicans, they just cover their ears and pretend that they have not heard the voice of the owl.
“A hooting owl means witches are approaching or a death will occur.”
The statement from the article made me wonder that a simple sound from the bird can deliver such maliciousness. It is ironic to claim that most of our worldly cultures believe that owls are the deliverers of death or the stepping stones of witches. In the first place, witches do not exist because people are just normal and do not have the ability to practice black magic. Even though there are several practices of magic in our world; they are just psychological imaginations that human beings are capable to do. Thus that entails towards mental disorders; which somehow is the result of imagining bizarre things in their brains. Now, how on earth is this related to the discussion? Simply, the belief of owls as the witch’s associate is just a creative derivation from the human brain; which somehow creates a simple manipulation (machiavellianism) in order to have a meaningful enjoyment in their culture. I still believe that the foundation of chemistry is alchemy; since people from that era have the curiosity to develop things in terms of matter. As for black magic it is irrational enough to believe it because it is not related to science; instead it is just a disorder within the human brain.
The belief of the “Doomsday Bird” is somehow true or maybe false. Why? From the article itself, it described that owls were the guardians of the afterlife. The dread expression towards the bird creates a significant appearance; simply because of their cultural profile as human spirits. Again, it is simply a sign from the dark triad characteristics especially machiavelliansim; since the creator of the belief is also a night owl. How did I know that the creator is also a night owl? To be exact, it is just an assumption that they heard the spooky sound of the owl at night and realized that someone died after that event. Thus, that entails that they are conscious about the darkness of the bird when they saw one at night; thus that would drive them crazy if it hoots in front of them. From their unusual actions; mental disorders develop and results to imminent death like suicidal attempts. Well, this is just based about the truth as the doomsday bird.
On the other hand, falsifying the belief is all about the rationality of a person’s brain. True, that it is startling when something happens unusual in front of us. The thing is, it is not proper for a person to generate certain images towards an object without knowing its background first. If I were in the shoes of that person from my previous example, the first thing that I would do after the fright scene is to observe the bird and forget everything that had happened to me. The main point that I am referring to is about the person’s reasoning right after an event. I did claim that owls right now have a new archetype; which is rationality, but there are things that can be contradicted in certain bits of information.
I did further research about archetypes, so I found this article entitled "Animal Archetypes" by Thomas Goldman from ezinearticles. It was a short article about archetypes of animals, but there are things that made me drive to explain my claims. From the article itself, I do agree that children usually identify animal archetypes with their small brains. Especially when they read fable picture books; from those roles that animals portray in stories children easily identify their significance. However, most of the worldly cultures identify or symbolize animals in two ways; which are “food” or “danger.”
“Archetypes are one of the levels of the building blocks of this entire physical-universe. They are fundamental definitions that can be found anywhere on earth, in any culture, on any continent, even before that society has any contact with other cultures.”
TRUE! I do agree from the statement itself. To elaborate my decisive acceptance, animal archetypes are already present ever since the world has formed. Right after man has formed a society, they eventually made use of their brains to generate new archetypes to cover the existing archetype. Same goes for the profile of the owl, readers, we now all know that most cultures define owls as bad omen, death and others signify them as wisdom. At some point I did mention that they are personified as death himself, but the thing is that the twist is coming to a reality. That reality is something that defiles my previous claims.
My first claim says that owls are simply death, since that is mostly known across the globe. Second would be that owls are archetypes of a human person’s rationality. Lastly is that owls as the person’s rationality towards death. Most of my claims define only death itself, but from the ideas that I have gathered; people mostly view owls as wise. Considering the fact that they are wise is due to their natural behaviors as nocturnal birds of prey. The thing is that my claims are entirely connected towards one direction; which is “WISDOM”. My claim about wisdom is not simply the common association to the Greek goddess Athena, but rather it is the ‘wisdom towards death itself; while considering the rationality that death is impossible to avoid.’
My idea may be crazy though, but is makes sense that owls are not simply symbolized as death and wisdom, but rather it is complementary to death and wisdom. Thus, this would result to worldly balances in each culture, but at some point this would also devastate their ancestor’s cultural beliefs towards the owl.
To conclude, there are several claims that can be contradicted by certain information that would be raised or simply a penetrating rebuttal. From my previous ideas, I generally combined them into one. Thus, that also made me end up believing that owls are also symbolized as wisdom. Following equality, symbolisms are simply symbolisms; there are things that would make a symbol false towards the main object and the other one is true enough since it is seen. The thing is, we ourselves should look deeper to their cultural profiles and relate it towards the scientific realm. Thus, that would make a difference to the owls and that would also push through to their conservation and survivability in our ecosystems.
I found this entertaining article entitled “Birdlife: Spooky myths about owls” by Marcia Davis from knoxnews. The article itself mostly discussed about owls as the human souls. However, the author claimed that the most feared owl is the barn owl, since she described it’s face as pale which somehow resembled as a human skull or simply a ghost. Most of all barn owls earned the title as the “bird of doom” or the “ghost owl.” At some point, not only that the owl earned the title due to is face features, but also its screeches at night. Several beliefs say said that people turn into owls as a punishment itself and somehow nailed into doors to ward off lighting, hail, and evil entities.
Inhabitants of America especially the Indians, believed that owls are the guardians of the spiritual world. To elaborate, the article stated that the “guardians” catch human souls and sends them to the underworld; others view them as wandering ghosts who are not satisfied to go to the next stage of life. Some Indians give their dead colleagues some owl feathers in order to have contact with their personal guardian towards the afterlife. Other cultures do crazy things to ward off these owls; like farmers walking naked in their fields to scare them off. Others throw salt to the birds of doom to scram. Lastly for Mexicans, they just cover their ears and pretend that they have not heard the voice of the owl.
“A hooting owl means witches are approaching or a death will occur.”
The statement from the article made me wonder that a simple sound from the bird can deliver such maliciousness. It is ironic to claim that most of our worldly cultures believe that owls are the deliverers of death or the stepping stones of witches. In the first place, witches do not exist because people are just normal and do not have the ability to practice black magic. Even though there are several practices of magic in our world; they are just psychological imaginations that human beings are capable to do. Thus that entails towards mental disorders; which somehow is the result of imagining bizarre things in their brains. Now, how on earth is this related to the discussion? Simply, the belief of owls as the witch’s associate is just a creative derivation from the human brain; which somehow creates a simple manipulation (machiavellianism) in order to have a meaningful enjoyment in their culture. I still believe that the foundation of chemistry is alchemy; since people from that era have the curiosity to develop things in terms of matter. As for black magic it is irrational enough to believe it because it is not related to science; instead it is just a disorder within the human brain.
The belief of the “Doomsday Bird” is somehow true or maybe false. Why? From the article itself, it described that owls were the guardians of the afterlife. The dread expression towards the bird creates a significant appearance; simply because of their cultural profile as human spirits. Again, it is simply a sign from the dark triad characteristics especially machiavelliansim; since the creator of the belief is also a night owl. How did I know that the creator is also a night owl? To be exact, it is just an assumption that they heard the spooky sound of the owl at night and realized that someone died after that event. Thus, that entails that they are conscious about the darkness of the bird when they saw one at night; thus that would drive them crazy if it hoots in front of them. From their unusual actions; mental disorders develop and results to imminent death like suicidal attempts. Well, this is just based about the truth as the doomsday bird.
On the other hand, falsifying the belief is all about the rationality of a person’s brain. True, that it is startling when something happens unusual in front of us. The thing is, it is not proper for a person to generate certain images towards an object without knowing its background first. If I were in the shoes of that person from my previous example, the first thing that I would do after the fright scene is to observe the bird and forget everything that had happened to me. The main point that I am referring to is about the person’s reasoning right after an event. I did claim that owls right now have a new archetype; which is rationality, but there are things that can be contradicted in certain bits of information.
I did further research about archetypes, so I found this article entitled "Animal Archetypes" by Thomas Goldman from ezinearticles. It was a short article about archetypes of animals, but there are things that made me drive to explain my claims. From the article itself, I do agree that children usually identify animal archetypes with their small brains. Especially when they read fable picture books; from those roles that animals portray in stories children easily identify their significance. However, most of the worldly cultures identify or symbolize animals in two ways; which are “food” or “danger.”
“Archetypes are one of the levels of the building blocks of this entire physical-universe. They are fundamental definitions that can be found anywhere on earth, in any culture, on any continent, even before that society has any contact with other cultures.”
TRUE! I do agree from the statement itself. To elaborate my decisive acceptance, animal archetypes are already present ever since the world has formed. Right after man has formed a society, they eventually made use of their brains to generate new archetypes to cover the existing archetype. Same goes for the profile of the owl, readers, we now all know that most cultures define owls as bad omen, death and others signify them as wisdom. At some point I did mention that they are personified as death himself, but the thing is that the twist is coming to a reality. That reality is something that defiles my previous claims.
My first claim says that owls are simply death, since that is mostly known across the globe. Second would be that owls are archetypes of a human person’s rationality. Lastly is that owls as the person’s rationality towards death. Most of my claims define only death itself, but from the ideas that I have gathered; people mostly view owls as wise. Considering the fact that they are wise is due to their natural behaviors as nocturnal birds of prey. The thing is that my claims are entirely connected towards one direction; which is “WISDOM”. My claim about wisdom is not simply the common association to the Greek goddess Athena, but rather it is the ‘wisdom towards death itself; while considering the rationality that death is impossible to avoid.’
My idea may be crazy though, but is makes sense that owls are not simply symbolized as death and wisdom, but rather it is complementary to death and wisdom. Thus, this would result to worldly balances in each culture, but at some point this would also devastate their ancestor’s cultural beliefs towards the owl.
To conclude, there are several claims that can be contradicted by certain information that would be raised or simply a penetrating rebuttal. From my previous ideas, I generally combined them into one. Thus, that also made me end up believing that owls are also symbolized as wisdom. Following equality, symbolisms are simply symbolisms; there are things that would make a symbol false towards the main object and the other one is true enough since it is seen. The thing is, we ourselves should look deeper to their cultural profiles and relate it towards the scientific realm. Thus, that would make a difference to the owls and that would also push through to their conservation and survivability in our ecosystems.
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