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  2. Bohemian Grove - Wikipedia

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    Since the founding of the club, the Bohemian Grove's mascot has been an owl, symbolizing wisdom. A 30-foot (9 m) hollow owl statue made of concrete over steel supports stands at the head of the lake in the Grove. This statue was designed by sculptor and two-time club president Haig Patigian. It was constructed in the late 1920s.

  3. Cremation of Care - Wikipedia

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    The Owl Shrine covered in moss, standing among trees behind a stage at one edge of a man-made pond. The ceremony involves the poling across a lake of a small boat containing an effigy of Care (called "Dull Care"). Dark, hooded figures receive from the ferryman the effigy which is placed on an altar, and, at the end of the ceremony, set on fire.

  4. Moloch - Wikipedia

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    The sacrifices are portrayed in an orientalist and exoticized fashion, with children sacrificed in increasing numbers to burning furnaces found in the statue of the god. [66] Flaubert defended his portrayal against criticism by saying it was based on the description of Carthaginian child sacrifice found in Diodorus Siculus .

  5. List of Bohemian Club members - Wikipedia

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    The Bohemian Club's mascot is an owl, here cast in masonry, and perched over the main club entrance at 20601 Bohemian Ave, Monte Rio, CA 95462. The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note.

  6. Haig Patigian - Wikipedia

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    He designed the Owl Shrine, a 40-foot high hollow concrete and steel structure which was built in the 1920s to have the appearance of a natural rock outcropping which happened to resemble an owl. [1] The Owl Shrine became the centerpiece of the Cremation of Care ceremony at the Bohemian Grove in 1929.

  7. Owl of Athena - Wikipedia

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    The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...

  8. Bohemian Club - Wikipedia

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    The Bohemian Club's City Clubhouse, from the corner of Taylor Street and Post Street. The City Club is located in a six-story masonry building at the corner of Post Street and Taylor Street, two blocks west of Union Square, and on the same block as both the Olympic Club and the Marines Memorial Club.

  9. Decadeslong Treasure Hunt Believed to Come to an End After ...

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    A decadeslong treasure hunt that has been fascinating participants in France since 1993 is believed to have come to an end after the discovery of a long-buried owl statuette this week.

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