Owl Men
Walking through the British Museum I came across this strangely modern-looking owl sculpture, actually an Aztec vessel for sacrificial offerings. Interesting to see that if you were born on 1-Rain in the Aztec calendar you were liable to turn into a deadly tlacatecolotl, or human owl. (I can't work out what that is in the Gregorian calendar but here is a fascinating article about the Aztec calendar, which begins on 1-Crocodile and goes through Ocelot and Death's Head, ending with 13-Flower.)
Owl men were also popular in Seventies Cornwall, it seems.
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Dear Fed by Birds, I think the Cornish are notorious leg pullers, spinners of fabulous yarns, especially when lubricated with the likes of Old Spingo.
On the theme of hoots, today I've read about The Owl Project (owlproject.com) in The Wire magazine.
Regards, JB.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 11, 2008 11:31 PM
Yay for the Owlman of Mawnan! Although I think it's fairly clear from the - ahem - documentary evidence that the Owlman was in fact just a big owl.
Posted by: patroclus | December 2, 2008 6:36 PM