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- "Dies ist eine heilige Eule."
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Well, he needs some robes or something to go with it. Of course there are those who might be offended by it, but my take is that if God doesn't have a good sense of humor we are all done for anyway.
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It's funny because I only clicked on the comments to see WTF a holy owl is referring to (since to my knowledge no religions worship owls or have holy ones!)... thanks to this image/photo alone, it all makes sense now...
Also, you could Google, "Moloch owl" and see a bottomless pit of Illuminati conspiracies open before you.
I saw on Youtube once, citizens would go worship the Moloch Owl, make human and animal sacrifices, and worship at the massive statue.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena
In Ancient Greece, the owl was thought to symbolise knowledge and wisdom (which is probably why Duo is here to help us learn languages).
Also in hindu mythology, owl is the 'ride' of Laxmi, the Goddess of wealth and prosperity.
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How holy is it anyway? You can argue that knowledge, in general, is scared but a holy owl?
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You got so many lingots for this one comment -- you practically don't have to work for them at all, lol
me too :v now i have a religion, the powerful owl who brings knowledge to us, bless!
It's zu jemandem beten: ich bete zu Duo; zu welchem Gott betest du?
Perhaps you were thinking of anbeten, but ich bete Duo an is "I worship Duo" rather than "I pray to Duo", and the an is not a preposition there so it does not come before the name "Duo".
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Yep., it almost thinks of itself as the Holy Spirit or Logos. In the Duo world the Holy Spirit descends upon us in the form of an owl rather instead of a dove!
The first tenet of duoism: thou shalt not praise the Owl in thy native language.
The second creed: if you have five gold trees, you will be reincubated as a polyglot (or an owl).
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Just checked your profile -- you have completed 5 or 6 language course here on Duo. How many of these languages do you speak efficiently ?
"Die Eule der Minerva beginnt erst mit der einbrechenden Dämmerung ihren Flug".
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who clicked into the comments to find outwhat a Holy Owl is.
Owl is a symbol of knowledge. Knowledge is holy. We worship knowledge. Congratulations we are now transcendent beings of some sort
"Gott" means "god" (including capital-G God). "Heilig", here declined as "heilige", means "holy".
A holy owl? I put an holy owl and was marked wrong. Do Britain really say a holy cow/owl/ground/etc nowadays?
I can't speak for the British, but I've never heard "holy" said with a silent h.
Neither do I; the only words I know where both possibilities are acceptable are "historic" and "historical".
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Himmlische dein Heiglitum...
Correct English is "This is AN Heilige Eule - always put an "n" after "a"
First of all, your sentence is just a weird "Deunglisch" type thing. You only wrote the first half in English. Second, what you said does not in any way apply to English. You don't always put an n, that's why "a" exists as a real word. Since the translation for the German part of the sentence you half-translated is "holy owl", you would most certainly not have the word "an" since "h" is a consonant. "An" before "h" is only acceptable if the "h" is silent, which it isn't in this case.
What is the difference between the use of das and dies when saying these/this?
Duo should be like Pepe, where there's a bunch of different outfits for him and you can have rare duos
