Owl Ball tumbler musical Toy, Painted Doll

Ball Owl tumbler
Wooden ball with a bell inside, hand-painted with tempera paint.
The ball is covered with matte varnish, making it warmer and fluffy in appearance.
Doll will be a wonderful Christmas gift and not only.
The famous philosopher and mystic Roerich N. To., claimed that the owl is an ambivalent (ambivalent) character.
This is reflected in the fact that on the one hand is the wisdom and insight with magic and the occult.
In pre-Christian times it was considered a sacred bird and associated with the mind, the secret knowledge.

Ancient Indian tribes for a strong beak, sharp claws respectfully called her "honorary eagle" and endowed her with wisdom, the gift of clairvoyance and prediction.

The Greco-Roman image of the owl was akin to Athena (Minerva) — goddess of wisdom, patron of art, craft, healing.

The European ethnic group is the owl sitting on a stack of books, a kind of emblematic image of wisdom.

As the owl leads a nocturnal, good to hear and see in the dark, silent flight, and the attack is sudden, the people made her a permanent member of the rites of the black and white forces, a zealous helper of witches, wizards and warlocks.
So Slavs — night bird associated with the supernatural, the unknown, acted as a talisman against evil spirits, evil spirits.

But all that duality inherent in night dweller planets, all peoples, without exception, with great respect for this bird, as its main strength — the ability to impart wisdom from ancestors to descendants, to see the hidden, hidden in the darkness.

Owl sent to earth to help people. As a symbol of a night of meditation, the personification of the totality of earthly and heavenly knowledge, she can see everything inside.
In a modern interpretation of the owl – a symbol:

learning;
limitless horizons;
a fair amount of mental baggage.

A large number of educational institutions, colleges, schools, institutes and universities world-elected as its symbol the owl as indicator of high quality teaching, and a gift in the form of an owl is considered especially honorary and symbolic, helps to Excel in learning.
The owl is hard to cheat, it always feels the truth and considers it the basis of the universe.