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Are there any sort of birds that symbolize the mind? psychic things? ?

Writing, want any help I can get while I research this 

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  • As the only  actual evidence of a spirit force using a bird to symbolic the spirit (mind), that would be a dove, from the New Testament.

     Everything else is just made up stories.

  • 1 month ago

    Owls (Roman) Ravens (Norse)

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    Goose? cluck like an old hen (so a chicken); struts like a rooster(a male chicken), what a turkey, eyes of an eagle(or hawk),  --all are bird brained(very small)  Might as well compare the mind to a ROCK.

  • Elaine
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    The Egyptian god Thoth was represented by an ibis. 

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  • 2 months ago

    I think the word you're looking for is "psychopomp" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp ).

  • 2 months ago

    The eagle, symbol of John and the mind using the imagination. It is also Daedalus and Icarus in both levels of flying towards the sun and falling to the sea of the mind.

    Look also into Odin and his two ravens, "thought and memory".

    Source(s): Some old work, mythology, and, of course, google/wiki
  • Mike W
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    You try looking into the roles that birds have in different cultures.  They had prominent roles in Greek, Egyptian, and Babylonian mythology.  There are more, but that should be a good place to start.  

  • 2 months ago

    Many people think of owls for this, although in actual fact, owls are not very bright at all!

  • roger
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    Owls are associated with brains. Not sure about psychic. Maybe a robin can be a harbinger of spring or doom.

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    Chickens, especially roosters, are a symbol of prophecy and divination throughout Christian tradition, from the rooster that would crow to let Peter know that he had denied Christ three times to the rooster of Barcelos that psychically divined a beggar's innocence and crowed to proclaim his innocence.

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