Possibly. The carvings at GT can be interpreted that way, but they could also be something entirely different. To take your own example, in Greek religious mythology, the eagle was not particularly wise at all - the Owl was the wise bird, not intrinsically, but because the owl was the companion/totem bird of Athena, the Goddess of Strategems and ‘cleverness’. Religions are full of subtle distinctions and peculiarities like this that are, unfortunately, not obvious from a bunch of rock carvings 11,000 years’ distant. You may be exactly and precisely correct in your interpretation, but there’s no way to prove it.
Absolutely, a good example is the African bushmen tribes. They are very few in numbers and could end up being crowded out of existence. It’s good that there is still room for such people to live how they like and for the most part are left in peace to get on with it.
This thread is getting way off topic.
Perhaps we should ask the African Bushmen. They were shown some abstract cave paintings that had been baffling archeologists, the Bushmen were easily able to decipher and tell the story being depicted. Our problem is that our higher education system fails to think outside of it’s own box. It has it’s hypothesis and woe betide anyone who disagrees.
The owl as a symbol of wisdom is telling you the wisdom is of a particular nature, in the case of an owl the wisdom is silent and springs on you unexpectedly, an eureka moment. Birds in general are a symbol of wisdom, the fine tuning comes in the particular species used.
Does that matter?
Yes. If you want to continue the discussion then we have this section of the forum for that.
Fair play, will remember that for next time. 
My apologies to all for the digression. A good discussion of ideas is hard to cut off . . .
Capitalising on something is not Capitalism. The terms are not really related as the capital in Capitalism refers to ownership and financing of enterprises, not processes of daily life. Capitalism is not some intrinsic or inevitable law of nature as some would have you believe, it’s an invented economic and social system just like other invented economic and social systems. We choose which system we want to use.
Off topic I know but I just had to.
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