Galleries : Undying Tales 2021 : UT 19 - Philippine Eagle-owl
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PHILIPPINE EAGLE-OWL - 6.5x6.5 inches $250.00 sold
Bubo philippensis Status: Vulnerable In the pantheon of the Visayan people of the Philippines, is the omniscient goddess Dalikamata. She is depicted as a beautiful woman, with thousands of eyes on her body, each of which is gifted with clairvoyance. She sees the past, present, and future, and she sees each person and knows all actions. At night she weeps for the ill actions that she sees humans doing to one another. It is said that the dew drops on the plants in the morning are the tears that she has shed, and that these tears can be a powerful ingredient for medicines. As an intermediary between the human and spirit world, she takes her charge of watching over human souls seriously, and so she put eyes on the wings of a butterfly to remind humans of goodness during the day, and she set the eagle-owl to watch over the night.
Size: 7 x 7 inches Detail closeups:
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