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Athena Glaukopis is a form of the Wisdom-Goddess Athena in Her aspect of a bright-eyed Owl Goddess. Glaukopis is related to the Greek glaux, the proper name for the little owl (in the Latin Athene noctua), the specific type of owl sacred to Her (though despite its Latin proper name it is just as likely to exist out during the solar day as at night). The wittle owl—er, I mean the footling owl—very much lives upwards to its common proper noun, equally it generally does not clear 8 inches tall even on its tippy-talons. Athena may have some of Her origins in an Owl-Goddess Who (ha!) could take both owl and human form; and in the Odyssey Athena typically disappears in a rush of wings or in the class of a fellow bird of prey such as a seahawk. If She was in fact first an Owl-Goddess then it may be that Her office as Wisdom-Goddess springs out of the Owl-Goddess office; for the intense staring eyes of the owl fabricated it emblematic of brilliant wisdom and intelligence.
The proper name Glaukopis near likely originally meant "owl-faced" or "owl-eyed"; over time, through association with Athena, information technology came to mean "blue-eyed" or "grey-eyed", and it is a very familiar epithet of Athena in the Odyssey. How it got from "owl" to "blue-greyness" is an interesting question; my guess is that from meaning "owl-eyed" it went to "brilliant-eyed" or "gleaming-eyed". Now in the owl's case "bright" or "gleaming" would refer to a clear yellow; just since humans (and one would assume, human-formed Goddesses) do not usually accept bright yellow eyes, the brightest, well-nigh startling natural color possible would exist a light blue or grey. Related to this alternate meaning are such Greek words equally glaukinos, "bluish-grayness", and even Glaukos, the name of a ocean-God (referring to the ocean's blue-greyness color); in English the discussion glaucous derives from the Greek, and means "bluish-green" or "sea-green". As the color of the Sea it may likewise make reference to Athena as Poseidon's daughter (a different parentage than the usual in which Zeus is Her begetter), which is said to explicate Her blue eyes.
Athena is of course closely associated with the city of Athens (though in that location is debate as to whether the Goddess was named for the city or the city for the Goddess), especially the Akropolis, the sacred centre of the town built on a limestone outcropping. The Athenians connected Athena and the owl and so closely that portraits of the two were depicted on each side of the silver coins of Athens, which were then known colloquially every bit "owls" (which inspired ane of my favorite quotes, from Aristophanes's The Birds: "Lauritic owls will never leave you lot; they will dwell in your home and nest in your bag, hatching out pocket-sized alter", "Lauritic" referring to the silvery mines of Laurium which supplied Athens). And in ancient times likewise as in mod ones, the Akropolis is a favorite home of lilliputian owls.
I was inspired to practise this piece when somewhere in reading about Athena I saw Her referred to as "the owl-eyed daughter"; I really liked the idea of the Wisdom and Ability Goddess, Who can do anything, as a young teenager with great big eyes ringed with kohl in imitation of or solidarity with Her owl. She is shown here wearing a woven peplos (a type of robe or garment), with a petty owl and Her olive tree in the background. The medium is watercolor pencil.
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