Nin-ninna or Divine Lady Owl

(Yeah for some reason is much harder to write here on the blog than on fb. There i start with an idea and fill it with details in comments. No need for much care for style though sometimes i am surprised myself of the outcome that is due mostly to relaxation and the familiar environment. Here the vast white space of the editing page is somehow intimidating.)

At Hogwart Academy Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad...

Who saw the movie was moved by the scene where students were given the option. At Hogwart, a fictional escape from the rigors and barriers of a still largely Christian society who lived by the Word of God and the commands of feudalized Church, ancient Sumerian and Egyptian real animals which were actually revered as gods back in those times and places were grafted on the exotic scenery suggesting an escape from urban England as well, a mythical greenish northern decor populated with characters pretending reminding of ancient people of northern Great Britain which to me raised politicanists or even subversionist suspicions.

Well i don't really know about old times in northern Britain as i know more of Mesopotamia and Egypt, past civilizations i have been interested with lately. I assume owls are native to that place as the whole of Europe but most likely not revered as gods in ancient or modern times. As for cats, i don't know so i'll have to pause and ask Google on that.

https://www.google.com/search?q=when+cats+were+introduced+in+great+britain

Pre Roman Times. Totally unexpectedly Google's answer brought more information than i hoped for but i was thinking of earlier. Pest control. Cats were used in ancient time not as pets but mostly as pest control (agents). Like eskimos' dogs which in time became pets in Northern America many hundreds of years after they ceased to be used for sleighs traction.

I don't know if i'm gonna put here again the bass-relief with Inanna and the owls. I think i will better put a Google link and let people pick their own ideas.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Nin-ninna+or+Divine+Lady+Owl

Both Sumerian and Egyptian civilization were based on the cultivation of grain in special places on Earth with hot climate and predictable floods. I assume they had granaries to deposit the grain. Also in the fields main problem of course would had been mice. Both owls and cats were probably blessings for the granaries keepers and they were probably encouraged to live by and in the end cats in Egypt were domesticated, then revered and the proof is the mummies of cats we find today.

Quite straightforward facts and speculations, nothing special so far. However there is a reason i started this and went so far.

I believe useful animals leaving nearby can influence a society. I always thought shepherds borrowed some traits of behavior from their herds. A special relationship with the animals was needed for optimal communication. After all, in the Bible Hebrew/Christian/Muslim God is sometimes called Our Shepherd. Ancient Hebrews who were first herders then farmers thought of their God as a Shepherd.

The image of an owl on a pole in the middle of the grain field around crop time or in special boxes inside barns must had been a familiar one to the ancient Sumerians. Both cats and owls can act at night when the keepers back then were helpless especially inside a barn full of grain.

So after hundreds of years they might have borrowed something from them. They were probably mentioned in many conversations and started to be represented as images on clay tablets or reliefs like these. In the end they proved so useful by saving a large percentage of their crops they gained a place at the left and right of their Earth-Mother-Goddess who turned her legs into owl legs and grew owl wings and of course long legs (to catch the mice with).

However. Inanna or whatever was her name in different periods who was also a goddess of war might had borrowed the magic powers of owls. Night vision. Excellent hearing. Stealth.

See where i'm getting at already?

Then Buddha meditating. Anybody thinks what i'm thinking?

Also.

https://www.google.com/search?q=buddha+sumer&source=lnms&tbm=isch

And the cherry on top of the pie. A Romanian word for owl.

https://www.google.com/search?q=buha+site%3A*.ro