The vision that Zeus sends is of two eagles fighting each other to the death, which a person in the crowd skilled in lore reads to mean the death of the suitors. Later in the book, Telemachus again sees the omen of the eagle, this time clutching a goose in its talons, as he leaves to return home to Ithaca.

Birds, in The Odyssey, are transient messages from the gods. Athena herself takes the shape of a bird on several occasions; birds represent her sly and gentle take on divine intervention.

“Throwing filthy rags on his back like any slave, he slipped into the enemy’s city, roamed its streets – all disguised, a totally different man, a beggar,” Helen recalls. This exactly foreshadows the tactics Odysseus employs, with Athena’s help, to reenter Ithaca.

Because of such association, the bird—often referred to as the “owl of Athena” or the “owl of Minerva”—has been used as a symbol of knowledge, wisdom, perspicacity and erudition throughout the Western world.

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And Sydney’s mom continued with the story… Athena told Haley she would get her owl down for her. Athena used her wisdom to come up with a plan to lure the owl down with berries she found in a bush nearby. The owl’s eyes grew big when he saw the berries, and he immediately flew down from the tree he was perched in.

Your godly parent is Athena! Your godly parent is Apollo!

Athena (Ancient Greek Αθηνά) is the goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts. Unlike Ares, she is the disciplined side of war. She has many demigod children. Like her, Athena’s children are born from her thoughts.

Athena the goddess of war and wisdom, once went to workshop of the smith god Hephaestus. Athena wiped Hephaestus semen, with scrap of wool, from her leg and threw it upon the earth. The goddess of earth, Gaea, was accidentally impregnated by the semen of Hephaestus and bore a son Erichthonius.