Superb Owl Sunday 2025

Apparently, by longstanding lore and custom, today is Superb Owl Sunday. How, exactly, should one celebrate this?

How to Celebrate

Easy: find a superb owl, then admire it.

Here, for example, is how superb owls were celebrated in ancient Greece. This pottery, now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris ^[1], dates from about the 5th century BCE. It shows an owl in combat, using what appear to be hoplite arms and armor to attack an olive branch (which is difficult to see in this photo, but check the references for other views).

Or, it seems to me, it could be a whimsical depiction of Athena. She’s often depicted in her rôle as a warrior goddess with spear & helmet, and her totem animal is the owl for wisdom.

Just admire it, and move on.

You have now celebrated Superb Owl Sunday, correctly and completely. You need not trouble yourself with any further ceremony on the subject.

Not even sportsball-related ceremonies.

The Weekend Conclusion

That was easy!

(Ceterum censeo, Trump incarcerandam esse.)

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Notes & References

1: Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully wing, first floor, room 43, case 17.

Accession number CA 2192.

Summary from the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University: “An owl, wearing a crest, and carrying a spear and shield, advances to the right, toward an olive frond that springs from the ground”.↩