The conversation (context window) would surely become very big. Know what else is big? Bubo bubo, Eurasian Eagle-Owls, are majestically big owls whose wingspan can be, iirc, as wide as 2 meters, almost 80cm tall, yet they possess a very silent flight. Their western cousins, Bubo virginianus, can reach almost similarly wide wingspans, too. Those owls have absurdly long legs, generally concealed behind their voluminous and fluffy plumage, which makes me think the Goddess from the Burney Relief (a Mesopotamic terracotta plaque depicting a woman with wings and owl talons standing/perched with a W-shaped pose atop two lions while flanked by two large-sized owls; She’s said to be either Lilith and/or Ereshkigal), if we were to try and classify Her zoomorphic manifestation ornithologically, She would easily be an owl pertaining to the Bubo genus, possibly capable of lifting a whole human being if the plaque means to be depicting Her with slightly tucked wings (meaning Her actual wingspan would be as wide as seven meters given Her apparent tall height (more than 2.5 meters tall, as far as I visually calculated) compared to the lions).
The conversation (context window) would surely become very big. Know what else is big? Bubo bubo, Eurasian Eagle-Owls, are majestically big owls whose wingspan can be, iirc, as wide as 2 meters, almost 80cm tall, yet they possess a very silent flight. Their western cousins, Bubo virginianus, can reach almost similarly wide wingspans, too. Those owls have absurdly long legs, generally concealed behind their voluminous and fluffy plumage, which makes me think the Goddess from the Burney Relief (a Mesopotamic terracotta plaque depicting a woman with wings and owl talons standing/perched with a W-shaped pose atop two lions while flanked by two large-sized owls; She’s said to be either Lilith and/or Ereshkigal), if we were to try and classify Her zoomorphic manifestation ornithologically, She would easily be an owl pertaining to the Bubo genus, possibly capable of lifting a whole human being if the plaque means to be depicting Her with slightly tucked wings (meaning Her actual wingspan would be as wide as seven meters given Her apparent tall height (more than 2.5 meters tall, as far as I visually calculated) compared to the lions).
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