Erotic Mythology 🎃 on Nostr: Ares turned his granddaughter Polyphonte into an owl when Zeus wanted her punished ...

Ares turned his granddaughter Polyphonte into an owl when Zeus wanted her punished for having sex with a bear. Polyphonte became a small kind of owl whose voice is heard at night. She does not eat or drink and keeps her head turned down and the tips of her feet turned up. True to her ancestral god she is a portent of war and sedition for mankind. The word used in the original Greek is στρίξ (strix), an owl or nightbird but the description with the head and feet upside down would also fit a bat.