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Subject: Athena's pet owl
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In a message dated Sun, 23 Jun 2002 8:49:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, dmeadows@idirect.com writes:

> I think the continuous problem folks have with this is that 
> they
> seem to assume the owl is a pet rather than an attribute.
> 
> dm

Originally they may have been just attributes, but the mythographers eventually have these "attributes" acting like pets.  The raven of Apollo, e.g., informs him that Coronis is having an affair.  Poseidon's dolphins fetch Amphitrite from the Atlantic ocean.  And so on.  So long as they can do things in stories, even if stories of relatively late creation, they could possibly have a name.  

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