{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Wicca and Neo-Paganism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_pag_err_err15_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_pag_err_err15_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_pag_err_err15_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pag/err/err15.htm","summary":"No one knows better than a bird of the air\n Where treasures are concealed.\"\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ARISTOPHANES, The Birds\nIT was an ancient belief in many countries that the birds knew all things, and, as OVID says, announce the will of the gods, because they are near them; that is, they fly to heaven, or as SENECA expresses it, \"Birds are inspired by the divinities.\" And it was especially an old Etrusco-Latin, as well as a Greek conviction, that they knew where treasure was concealed\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Part Two: Chapter II--BIRDS AND TREASURES","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Wicca and Neo-Paganism","translated_text":null,"word_count":12153}