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Owl symbolic jewellery. Boucher vintage brooch Owl, crystals, enamel

Boucher vintage brooch. Crystals, enamel. Owl symbolic jewellery

Owl symbolic jewellery

People around the world recognize the majestic power of the night-hunting owl. According to the Celts, the bird symbolized age and its attendant wisdom. Owls have a long history with humans. The relationship is probably not as close as that between humans and diurnal birds of prey. Nevertheless, owls abound in myths, poems, paintings, and folklore.
Perhaps, the owls’ almost human “face” that makes them so popular with many people. Today representations of owls, whether it is a painting, a sculpture, or a piece of jewellery are popular with collectors. However, owls are probably hated and feared in some cultures as much as they are liked and revered in others.
According to Indian law and Greek mythology, owls represent wisdom. In many countries owls symbolise bad luck or death, while others believed them to guard the souls of women or ward off famine or plague.

Boucher brooch Owl

Boucher brooch

The most renowned owl in Celtic literature is the transformed Welsh flower-bride Blodeuwedd, who turned into an owl as punishment for betraying her husband and persuading her lover to kill him. We also find an owl (the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd) in the Welsh epic of Kulhwch and Olwen, but the wise bird was unable to provide the hero with the information he needed to find his lover.

Owl symbolic jewellery

Boucher vintage brooch Owl and Moon

Moon and owl Boucher brooch

In Ireland a vestigial owl goddess is found in the figure of Echtach, sister or double of the cannibal goddess Eghchte. Some have interpreted the great spiraling patterns that appear in eye-like pairs on some pre-Celtic monuments in Ireland, Britain, and France as representing an owl-faced goddess. This controversial viewpoint links those ancient monuments to others in the eastern and central Mediterranean.

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Cadoro vintage brooch Wise Owl

Cadoro Wise Owl brooch

Gerry's creation brooch Owl

Gerry’s creation brooch

Lea Stein brooch owl

Lea Stein brooch

Trifari vintage brooch, 1964

Trifari vintage brooch, 1964. Galina Karputina collection

Avon Vintage brooch, 1972

Avon Vintage brooch, 1972. Galina Karputina collection

Vintage brooch Owl by Boucher

Boucher brooch

Beautiful red Vintage brooch Owl

Red Owl brooch

Jewelled Owl vintage brooch by Avon

Avon

Polymer clay figurine Silver Owl. Jeweler Alexey Shevelyov

Polymer clay figurine. Jeweler Alexey Shevelyov

urprised Owl. Jeweler Alisa Knizhnik

Surprised Owl brooch. Jeweler Alisa Knizhnik