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Owl

Sight in the dark: knowing that works where ordinary attention fails. Wisdom in the Greek reading, and an announcement of death in a good deal of folklore, which are less far apart than they look.

Where the reading comes from

The owl was Athena's bird and is on the drachma. Both readings come from the same fact, which is that it hunts at night in silence and is heard before it is seen.