OWL MACE HEADS
This picture shows two
examples of a common Costa Rican owl form mace head. The hafted example
has a computer generated handle. In the past and around the world, owls
have been seen more as a negative influence. They have been linked to
death, magic, the underworld, harbingers of disaster, darkness, demons,
prophesy, north wind, witchcraft, drought, a god of death, bird of ill
omen and demonic influences, just to name a few. But on the other hand,
they were seen by the Greeks as wise, by the Aztecs as having a powerful
force of rejuvenation, and by the Australian aborigines as a sacred bird
associated with rain, water and birth.
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