Tyto alba Anhang = Barn Owl
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Nacht. ↔ Fledermaus./Eule
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)
The barn owl’s scientific name means the “white owl”. tyto= owl and in Latin
alba = “white“. Barn Owl known as “screech owl”, referring to the piercing
calls of these birds.
Barn Owl Natural History:
Is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most
widespread of all birds. T. alba found almost anywhere in the world.
The light face with its heart shape and the black eyes give the flying
bird an odd and startling appearance, like a flat mask.
It produces the characteristic shree scream, ear-shattering at close
range.
Males in courtship give a shrill twitter.
It can hiss like a snake to scare away intruders, and when captured or
cornered, it throws itself on its back and flails with sharp-taloned feet,
making for an effective defence.
Tyto alba nocturnal as usual for owls, but it often becomes active
shortly before dusk already and can sometimes be seen during the day, when it
relocates
from a sleeping place it does not like.
It has an effortless wavering flight as it quarters pastures or similar
hunting grounds. Like most owls, the Barn Owl flies silently; tiny serrations
on the leading edges of its flight feathers help to break up the flow of air
over its wings, thereby reducing turbulence and the noise that accompanies it.
It hunts by flying low and slowly over an area of open ground, hovering
over spots that conceal potential prey. They may also use fence posts or other
lookouts to ambush prey. The Barn Owl feeds primarily on small vertebrates
(rodents).
Studies shown that an individual Barn Owl may eat one or more rodents
per night; a nesting pair and their young can eat more than 1.000 rodents per
year.
Barn Owls consume as much as twice their own body weight of rodents,
frogs, lizards, bats, moths and occasional small birds in a day.
Barn Owls have no crop like falcons and the digestive system is less
acidic than other raptors, so they cannot digest bone and fur. This undigested
matter is disgorged in
the form of a pellet. This is a conscious act.
Hunting nocturnally or crepuscularly, it can target and dive down,
penetrating its talons through snow, grass or brush to seize rodents with
deadly accuracy.
It is not a territorial bird and hunting territories can overlap.
Compared to other owls of similar size, the Barn Owl has a much higher
metabolic rate, requiring relatively more food.
Occasionally, nesting takes place in mine shafts and caves. The male
brings food to the nest as the female incubates the eggs and cares for chicks.
Some pairs remain together during the winter, others separate and come
together again to breed.
It is not a great traveller and often doesn’t venture far from its place
of birth.
Once established in a nest site they can have great loyalty to the site,
rearing their young for many generations.
Destroy the eggs and the chicks if they feel threatened. Their most vulnerable
times are just before the eggs hatch and up to two weeks after hatching.
The nest site is often very dirty and smelly and the chicks can become
quite grubby.
They have a special comb on one of their toes which they use to preen
and clean their feathers. After preening they emerge a beautiful white with
varying
markings in brown and apricot.
The Barn Owl has a large range of predators, so they live on average 2 -
4 years.
The barn owl’s eyes are large and fixed in the skull. They do not move,
but this is compensated by an extraordinary ability to turn the head through
270° and to
move it widely within a plane.
The White Owl’s eyes face forward, giving it binocular vision, and are
on the front of the face rather than the side. The eye consists of more rods
than cones,
so it is more sensitive to light and can see only limited colors.
They lower the upper eyelid when they blink, which gives them great
character.
The Barn Owl has acute hearing, with ears placed asymmetrically for
improved detection of sound position and distance, and it does not require
sight to hunt.
Barn Owls have acute hearing, which allows them to detect the slightest
rustle.
The pink cere at the base of the bill is covered with bristles, and
forms part of the facial disc structure, being extremely sensitive to sound
vibration.
Central issue:
The keynote of all owls is magic, wisdom and innervision.
The barn owl is a particularly ghostly figure. Its white plumage and its
ability to fly in absolute silence through the twilight give it the appearance
of a visitor
from another world while its call can be unnerving. It has an
association with death which came through in the provings (Condor and Vulture).
Thoughts about death and endings and
dreams of death were significant. There was also a tendency to notice or come
across dead people and dead animals.
Owl myth has evolved throughout the centuries. Owl a contradictory
symbol since flight is representative of spirit, yet it is a night creature and
therefore
associated with death, darkness and destruction. Man fears the darkness,
as he cannot see what is hidden.
The barn owl is a nocturnal animal
and this affected many provers. They were awake, lively and energized through
the night but inactive and very sleepy during
the day and particularly in the
afternoon. Moonlight was important with lunar periodicity.
Things seen peripherally are never full perceived and they therefore
become a source of fear and anxiety but when those things are observed squarely
and face
on, the truth is exposed and they become powerful in a more positive
way.
It seems that this contradiction between facing things and avoiding them
could be an important issue in the remedy.
Correlation with Nature:
A. Blurred vision/ Shadow
The White Owl’s eyes are fixed and face forward, giving it binocular
vision, and are on the front of the face rather than the side. It can see what
happen on
the front of its face, but it has to move its face on all sides to see
in different directions, so they are vulnerable if attacks happen from other
areas of sight…
Peripheral vision and
things happening just on the fringe of vision came up in the provings:
“Sensation of something happening on the fringes of my
perception which always vanished
when I focussed my attention on it. A shadow moving on the edge of vision. Not
there when looking.”
Things seen peripherally
are never fully perceived and they therefore become a source of fear and
anxiety but when those things are observed squarely and
face on, the truth is
exposed and they become powerful in a more positive way.
It seems that this
contradiction between facing things and avoiding them could be an important
issue in the remedy.
B. Death, darkness, endings
The barn owl is a particularly ghostly figure. Its white plumage and its
ability to fly in absolute silence through the twilight give it the appearance
of a visitor from another world while its call can be unnerving…
Talking intensively about
death and dying.
Thoughts of death and
dying, feel as if she will die in her sleep.
Feel dark and removed;
Things seem very black
Falling into sleep like
falling into death, the darkness in the whole thing is frightening. It’s the
darkest time of the year.
The dead are always
looking down on us; they watch the top of our heads and see things moving below
on Earth.
Watching the river from
the window and feel as if – ‘It’s turbulent and moving – there’s lots of stuff
in it – lots of rubbish being cleared out. Lots of endings
are occurring – stuff
that has been left is being sorted out.’
I can’t sleep. Everything
seems so black. Think it would be better if I was dead.
C. Vulnerable, anxious
Barn Owls will destroy the eggs and the chicks if they feel threatened.
Their most vulnerable times are just before the eggs hatch and up to two weeks
after hatching…
Apprehension with no
apparent reason, < afternoons
Afraid to look in the
shadows as if someone was behind her
Scared and fearful <
alone
Frightened going to sleep;
Frightened on looking in the mirror, I am not the person I see in it.
I have been feeling
sensitive, exposed, jelly-like and unsteady. I Couldn’t put my finger on it before,
since the remedy.
I’m terrified of slipping
into an abyss.
I thought a vampire was
going to bite my neck. I feel awful and so tense and anxious. Feeling like
something dreadful is going to happen.
D. Accidents and injuries
Hunting nocturnally or crepuscularly, it can target and dive down,
penetrating its talons through snow, grass or brush to seize rodents with
deadly accuracy, but the dive may cause injury or death because it may hit a
rock or any hard object…
I slammed my finger in a
door and skinned my left thumb separately.
I had to fill out an
accident form as slight injury to right thumb and left thigh.
I was kicked by a horse
nearly two weeks ago.
My bruised toes now
hurting.
DD.: Bubo virginianus:
The particular issue in
Bubo virginianus is around 3-dimensional orientation and depth perception. In
Tyto alba the particular symptoms were around peripheral vision.
Low light, black and white
vision predominates over bright colour vision in the barn owl, and there was a
monochrome feel to parts of the provings and some
dreams were in black
and white.
Both the Great Horned Owl
and the Barn Owl have issues around truth, knowing the truth and telling the
truth. In Bubo virginianus there is a need to stand back as an observer and get
the picture in perspective. Doing this brings about a wisdom that can be passed
on but more importantly is known and preserved.
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Umwelt
[Ulrike Gebhardt]
Das unterschätzte Tier Lauschangriff
mit Parabolschleier und schiefen Ohren
Sie sieht zwar teilnahmslos aus,
doch die Schleiereule detektiert leiseste Geräusche. Wie eine
Satellitenschüssel auf Dauerempfang spioniert sie in den Wald hinein.
Wer sich unter der Schleiereule
eine mit dünnen Stoffen behängte Eule vorstellt, liegt genauso daneben, wie
derjenige, dem die Fantasie – unbelastet von zoologischen Fakten – einen wild
um sich schießenden Pistolenkrebs in den Kopf zaubert. Das Wort Schleier stammt
in diesem Fall aus dem weidmännischen Sprachgut. Etwa seit dem 16. Jahrhundert
bezeichnen Jäger den herzförmigen Federkranz, den Tyto alba um die Augen trägt,
als Schleier. Etwas missverständlich, denn die Pracht vernebelt dem Nachtjäger
keinesfalls die Sinne.
Tagsüber tarnt sich das Tier
zwar als teilnahmsloser Beobachter des Trubels auf dem Waldboden und hockt wie
ein zersprengtes Schaumstoffkissen ohne größere Regung zwischen den Ästen.
Doch in der Nacht spitzt der
Vogel die Ohren.
Ein Federkranz als Verstärker
Die Schleiereule kann Geräusche
hören, die zehnmal leiser sind als das, was menschliche Ohren noch wahr nehmen
können. Dazu trägt ihr Schleier entscheidend bei. Der Federkranz fängt das
leise Rascheln der Maus, die durch das Wiesengras flüchtet, ähnlich einer
Parabolantenne ein und verstärkt den Schall mit Hilfe steifer Federn, die sich
am Rande des Kranzes befinden. Diese schwingen
wie der Resonanzkörper eines
Musikinstrumentes mit, ganz im Gegensatz zu den zarten Federn im Inneren des
Schleiers, die den Schall rasch durchlassen.
Typisch für alle 11 Arten aus
der Familie der Schleiereulen ist der herzförmige Federkranz um die Augen, der
Gesichtsschleier. Die bei uns heimische, etwa 34 Zentimeter große Schleiereule
(Tyto alba), haust in Kirchtürmen, Scheunen und Ruinen. Ihr Wohlergehen steht
und fällt mit der Populationsstärke der Hauptnahrungstiere, Feld- oder
Wühlmaus. Die Schleiereule sieht und hört extrem gut, aber das, was sie selbst
an Lauten fabriziert, ist eher ein Schnarren und Knarren, bei dem sich Frau
Nachtigall wohl
die Ohren zu halten würde. Wer
trotzdem einmal lauschen möchte, kann dies hier tun.
Das Gehör der Schleiereule ist
so fein und präzise, dass sie selbst in absoluter Dunkelheit zum Erfolg kommt. Es
sind Fälle beschrieben, in denen die Eulen durch einen Sprung in den tiefen
Schnee, allein mit Hilfe des Gehörs, Beute machten. Wenn eine Schleiereule
einen viel versprechenden Laut hört, richtet sie Kopf und Blick rasch in dessen
Richtung. Stammt das Geräusch tatsächlich von einem Beutetier, stürzt sich die
Eule kopfüber in die Dunkelheit, immer darauf bedacht, sämtliche Sinne auf die
Geräuschquelle zu konzentrieren. Kurz vor dem Aufprall wird der Kopf
zurückgenommen, die Krallen vorgestreckt und das Opfer gepackt.
Während es beim Menschen eher
als Laune der Natur angesehen wird, wenn linkes und rechtes Ohr in Form und
Position variieren, ist diese Asymmetrie bei der Schleiereule Programm. Dadurch
gelingt es ihr trotz des kleinen Kopfes, Lautstärke- und Laufzeitenunterschiede
zwischen dem Ohr, das dem Geräusch zugewandt ist, und demjenigen, das abgewandt
ist, präzise zu bestimmen. Die Schallquelle ist damit rasend schnell
auszumachen und der leere Magen füllt sich.
Allerlei: Schleiereulen = Symbol
von Pallas Athene/= Künderin des Todes/des Feuers. (Feuer- und Flammeneule)
Besonderheit: Schleiereulen
haben ein alltägliches Ritual während der Jungenaufzucht. Bevor das Männchen
zum Beuteflug aufbricht, lockt es das Weibchen mit Rufen ans Ausflugsloch. Dann
vollführt er unter ihren Augen eine Art Flugzirkus, um sie zu beeindrucken.
Erst dann geht er auf Beuteflug. Bei seiner Rückkehr wird er vom Weibchen immer
sehr zärtlich empfangen u. mit Schmuseeinheiten bedacht. Das Weibchen ist
während ganze Brut- und Aufzuchtszeit in Nesthöhle. Sie legt in Abstände Eier,
so Jungen sind unterschiedlich alt. Männchen bringt Futter vorbei. Das Weibchen
bietet währenddessen regelmäßig Paarung an. Das Paar ist sich treu.
Deception
Owl medicine is symbolically associated with clairvoyance, astral
projection, and magic, both black and white. Owl is called Night Eagle on several
medicine wheels used by Amerindian teachers. Traditionally, Owl sits in the
East, the place of illumination.
Since time immemorial, humanity has been afraid of the night, the dark,
and the unseen - waiting fearfully for the first crack of morning light.
Conversely, night is Owl's friend.
Owl hunts its prey at night. Not only can Owl see in the dark, it can
also accurately pinpoint and identify any should. This gives it a great
advantage when seeking food. Owls are the night hunters. Some native people are
fearful of Own and call its feathers "deceiver feathers." An Owl
feather is silent. You cannot hear Own when it flies, but its prey definitely
knows when it strikes, for its beak and talons are razor sharp.
Owl is oftentimes the medicine of sorcerers and witches. If Owl is your
medicine, you will be drawn to magical practices and perhaps explore the dark
arts. You should resist any temptation to practice black magic or any art that
takes energy away from another person or being. If you have Owl medicine, these
night birds will have a tendency to collect around you, even in the daytime,
because they recognize a kinship with you.
Is it any wonder that in many cultures Owl is a symbol for wisdom? This
is because Owl can see that which others cannot, which is the essence of true
wisdom.
Where others are deceived, Owl sees and knows what is there.
Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, had a companion Owl on her shoulder
which revealed unseen truths to her. Owl had the ability to light up Athena's
blind side, enabling her to speak the whole truth, as opposed to only a half
truth.
If Owl is your personal medicine, no one can deceive you about what they
are doing, no matter how they try to disguise or hide it from you. You may be a
little frightening to be around, since so many people have ulterior motives
which you see right through. If you are unaware of your medicine power, you may
take your keen insights and abilities for granted. Others never do. You may
frighten them and reflect their blindness, for you cannot be fooled. Owl
medicine people know more about an individual's inner life than that person
know about herself or himself.
If you have pulled the Owl card, you are being asked to use your powers
of keen, silent observation to intuit some life situation. Owl is befriending
you and aiding you in seeing the total truth.
Owl can bring you messages in the night through dreams or meditation.
Pay attention to the signals and omens. The truth always brings further
enlightenment.
Contrary
If you have Owl upside-down in your cards, you have been greatly
deceived by either yourself or another. Perhaps witch-craft or black magic is
being used against you, or maybe you are using witchcraft or sorcery to aid you
when you should be praying and asking the Great Spirit for guidance. The
message is to befriend the darkness inside yourself. Look deeply, and soon the
bright light of dawn will illuminate you. Then ask yourself what you are in the
dark about. How and by whom are you being deceived? Are you being greatly deceived,
or just slightly deceived? Owl tells you
to keep an eye on your property and your loved ones. Remember that Owl
is always asking, "Who?"
Overview
Owl is a creature of the night and has been symbolically associated with
wisdom because it can see what others cannot. It is the only bird that flies in
total silence.
As a power animal, Own encourages you to develop your intuitive
abilities and inner senses, and to seek the knowledge that is hidden from most
people. Owl is a protector and will help you to discern more readily the
motives and intentions of others, especially those who may attempt to deceive
you or take advantage of you in some way. Owl also helps you to recognize that
there is a dark side to your nature that should not be ignored or repressed.
You need to see that it is there so you can come to terms with it.
Owl is symbolic of discernment and the need to look out for deception.
You have to see to know. You have to know to see.
Honor intuition. Use discernment. Outsmart deception. Trust your first
impressions.
Source: Sams, Jamie and Carson, David.
DD.: Great Horned Owls compete with the Red-tailed Hawk for nest sites.
Each species has been known to kill the young and destroy the eggs of the other,
but in general, both species nest in adjacent or confluent territories without
conflict.
Great Horned Owls are incapable of constructing nests and typically
expropriate existing Red-tail nests.
Red-tails are therefore adapted to constructing new nests when a
previous year’s nest has been overtaken by owls or otherwise lost.
Freedom ↔
Restriction
Allerlei: It would seem the owl considered sacred in stone age. Is often
seen as a symbol of death, representing the mystery and unknowable secrets of
death and darkness.
Almost universally perceived as wise and all-seeing or all-perceiving
and is often associated with the moon, and with goddesses associated with the
moon.
Mythology:
Polyphonte, from the lineage of Ares, was beholden to honour Aphrodite,
but scorned her in favour of Artemis to whom she became a companion.
Aphrodite caused her to fall in love with a bear by whom, under demonic
urge, she bore two sons, Agrius and Orius, huge strong men. They had no respect
for either the gods or men. “If they met a stranger they would haul him home to
eat.” Artemis was disgusted and Zeus sent Hermes to punish them. Ares
interceded and with the help of Hermes turned them into birds. “Polyphonte
became [a strix], a small owl whose voice is heard at night. She does not eat
or drink and keeps her head turned down and the tips of her feet turned up. She
is a bearer of war and sedition for mankind.
Orius became an eagle owl, a bird that presages little good to anyone
when it appears. Agrius was changed into a vulture, the bird most detested by
gods and men.
These gods gave him an utter craving for human flesh and blood.” From
Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis (approx 2nd - 3rd C.
B.C.).
Inner wisdom
Knowledge
Integration
Feelings of persecution
Isolation
Extra-sensory perception
Awareness of mystical and spiritual experiences
Understanding dreams, visions, and subconscious thought projection
Can access inner secrets
Del. controlled, abused and dominated by others
Confidence, Determination
Outspoken, Confrontational
Speaking ones’ mind
Resentment, Rage
Anger; with tendency to destroy things
Inwardly focused
Introspective
Detached
Lack of self - awareness
No deeper understanding of themselves particularly those higher-level
psychic parts they do not fully understand
Sensation: too be exposed
Apprehensive, Forebodings
Feeling something bad will happen; and it will be my fault; Guilt
Intellectual
Harmony with self
Del. he is a teacher
Des. to share their wisdom but others do not always accept it
Sens. abandoned
Forsaken
Isolated
Unable to access emotions; can’t seem to get to the heart of the matter,
to the core of the issue
Death, darkness, endings
Sens. sinister; creepy
Terrible black thoughts
Suicidal
Blackness, Evil
Spiritual insight, great mental clarity and emotional objectivity and
detachment
Love: nature, birds, moonlight
Excitement from music
Completely unable to make important decisions; no awareness of all the
various aspects involved
Cannot support injustice;
Indignation
Generals:
Periodicity: lunar cycle; annual
Eyes: Sensitive to light, Problems with depth perception; balancing near
and far. Very good vision in the dark, Good peripheral vision, Stereoscopic,
Focus changes while eading.
Vision: focusing, blurring, depth perception,
everything goes dark; Owls see mostly in black and white. Ears: sx alternating,
or sx left-sided, Discharge gluey, Sens. as of a body internally, As if stopped
up, Hearing acute, Hearing comes and goes; is on a different level (high
pitch/low pitch).
The Lakota tell us that the old woman who guards the entrance to the
Milky Way, which is the spirit road to the land of the dead, was called ‘Owl
Maker’. Sumero-Babylonian (3,500 BC) sculptures depicted Lilith as a winged
female accompanied by owls; she was said to kill infants and endanger women in
childbirth.
Pallas Athene, the Greek goddess of wise counsel, courage, inspiration,
civilization, law and justice, just warfare, heroic endeavour and fertility was
affiliated with the owl, and Hine-nui-te-Po, the Maori goddess of ‘Po’, the
underworld, was often depicted wearing a ‘hei-tiki’ - an image which holds its
head tilted to one side as an owl does.
Paul Johnsgard, North American Owls: Biology and Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002
Solitary, Reserved
Self-contained
Avers. company
Sens. as if observing
from the outside
Des. solitude, Wants to be quiet, Av. small talk
Not inclined to have involvement with group
Wants to be quiet
Irritability; from noise
Vultures are associated with both death and rebirth
Owls are associated with death and endings
Illusions of
Allerlei: China: Unheil
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