/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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>There is a long-running tradition of using owls as a symbol of knowledge. This might be because their eyes resemble Nerd Glasses, because they are silent and mysterious, because their heads appear as round as a bald old sage's, or maybe just because Owls Ask "Who?" Most likely, though, it's because of their importance in various ancient cultures, especially the Greeks, where the owl was the bird of Athena, the goddess of, among other things, wisdom. Ironically, Athena's bird was the owl not because the Greeks themselves saw owls as wise, but because Athena's patron city Athens (and its environs) swarmed with wild little owls.