Athena and poultry
In the poems of Homer Athena four ornitomorfny takes shape. We know of at least four of the myth, in which Athena makes the birds of female characters.
In the Iliad Athena sits on an oak, like a hawk, and the "Odyssey" is transformed into a sort of a bird and flies away after the conversation with Telemachus, after a conversation with Nestor turns into an eagle and flies away, after a conversation with Odysseus transformed into a swallow and sits on the bar at ceiling.
We know that Athena had given the Teiresias ability to understand the language of birds. One of the names of the Goddess - Chaika.
Athens rock Efii (Duck-Duck) was in Megaride. According Gesihiyu, Athena is honored at megartsev in this shape because, having turned into a duck-Nyrka, hid under their wings Kekropa and took him to Megara.
Owl - a sign of service Pallas; owl - "taloned bird of Minerva. It was known for saying "carry owls to Athens".
The story of the transformation Niktimeny, daughter of the king of Lesbos, who sat down with his father, the owl leads Ovid.
Beat poet described the myth that children of Eumelus Meropidy on Kos did not want to sacrifice to Athena and have not visited the sacred grove of Athena and Artemis. Athena in the guise of the girls and the other gods emerged from their homes. When Meropida was mocking Athena, she turned it into Sovenko.
Athena has turned into a crow daughter Coronea pursued by Poseidon. Later, the crow, soobschivschaya Athena violation daughters Kekropa ban, was severely punished, deprived of voice. Lucretius said that crows do not fly into a place near the temple on the Acropolis in Athens, but, contrary to the stories of poets, not because of the wrath of the goddess, but because of the natural properties of terrain. The statue of the Crown (a town in Elis) depicts Athens with black in his hand.
Dedalus threw his nephew, jealous of him, with strongholds Athens, but she turned the boy into a partridge.