Welcome to the third "Give the Fiddler a Dram" podcasts.
Birds have been around long before humans wandered onto the scene. Back then, they were dinosaurs. They survived several planet-wide extinction events, and evolved. Bird imagery occurs universally in all human endeavor throughout all human history. It's like people wanted to be birds...humans wore their feathers (and killed them), slept on their down (and killed them), ate them (and killed them), wanted to eat like them (invented pesticides and killed them), wanted to live in nests (invented suburbs), wanted to fly (invented flying machines that dropped nuclear weapons on other people)...do you detect a pattern? At least people realized birds were earth's original musicians, and tried to emulate them (imperfectly, which explains national anthems and the song "Duke of Earl").
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