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When Zeus commanded Hades to send Persephone back up to Demeter, Hades gave her a pomegranate seed to eat, so that she would have to return to the underworld. Askalaphos, the son of the river Acheron and the naiad nymph Gorgyra, bore witness against her, so Demeter pinned him down with a heavy rock in Hades' realm. Herakles, while in the underworld, rolled the stone off Askalaphos but Demeter turned him into an owl of the genus Bubo.
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Ares turned his granddaughter Polyphonte into an owl when Zeus wanted her punished for having sex with a bear. Polyphonte became a small kind of owl whose voice is heard at night. She does not eat or drink and keeps her head turned down and the tips of her feet turned up. True to her ancestral god she is a portent of war and sedition for mankind. The word used in the original Greek is στρίξ (strix), an owl or nightbird but the description with the head and feet upside down would also fit a bat.
The little owl, Athena noctua, is well-known as the companion of the goddess Athena, though it is uncertain how she became associated with the nocturnal birds. In Europe, the owl therefore represents wisdom and is the symbol of many a university.
The ancient Greeks showed #Athena with her favourite bird in their art, like for instance this bronze statuette of Athena flying her owl, dated ca. 460 BCE. But Athena and the little owl are not the only owls in Greek #mythology... 🧵
@taylorlorenz I would mention the ridiculous censoring that is going on on YouTube right now and how centralised platforms will, eventually, be hostile towards themes that advertisers don't like, which is obviously adult content but also mental health, LGBTQ, and lots of other topics an advertiser doesn't want to be associated with. Instead of saying "unalived" to appease the platform, you can just say "murdered" on a decentralised platform that doesn't have to cater to advertisers.
