In good feather...

I woke up yesterday morning and found bird's feathers on my bed!  White and light grey, fluffy, pretty nice actually.  But I wasn't comfortable - suffocated, maybe an allergic reaction(?).  And it was too early for such a surprise - 5.05AM to be exact!  The birds must be really, really busy shedding off their feather.  But what for?  Preparing for the monsoon season?  Haha!

When I met up with a friend, she jokingly told me maybe I had an angel visiting me that night, that's why the feathers were on my bed.  And mind you, they were only on my bed, none on the floor.  I didn't quite get it at first, until she mentioned that angels have white wings, bla, bla, bla.  Which is quite ironic since the afternoon before I saw a movie poster which has an angel on it.  I didn't tell her though, who knows what crazy conclusion we might have came up with...

Once I got home I did a simple search on "myth dove feather", and these are some interesting results Google came up with:

Birds in Mythology

Life, death, luck, and love have all been tied to the tail-feathers of these ... Mythology associates doves with love and Mother goddesses such as the ...
www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com/mythology.htm

READ MORE - All about Greece, greek history, mythology, language ...

In more recent mythology, Eros is the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and one of the younger deities ... The golden arrows with dove feathers are arrows of love, ...
www.hellenism.net/cgi-bin/display_article.html?s=28&a=54

APHRODITE : Greek goddess of love & beauty ; mythology ; pictures ...

Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. .... Ancient mythology furnishes numerous instances in which Aphrodite punished those who ...
www.theoi.com/Olympios/Aphrodite.html

Animal Totems: The Power and Prophecy of Your Animal Guides - Google Books Result

by Millie Gemondo, Trish MacGregor - 2004 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 280 pages
In Greek myth, the dove was Athena's bird and represented the renewal of life and ... Among the Pueblo Indians, dove feathers were used in prayer sticks, ...
books.google.com.my/books?id=4cHG7Oau_f4C&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=myth+dove+feather&source=bl&ots=RAD-JhvrmJ&sig=baDq5Pj_6CIqsc_Z6nUPZ0KswV8&hl=en&ei=fiTySq7MDI2Y6wPq4_0N&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Dove Goddess

26 Feb 2005 ... It is not clear if the dove was only a symbol of a divinity or an attribute for a certain goddess in the Pre-Hellenic mythology. ...
www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dove_goddess.html

Birds in Mythology - Myth Encyclopedia - Birds and Creation, Life ...

According to Greek mythology, the feathers of crows and ravens were originally ... In the ancient Near East and in Greece, the dove was a symbol of love and ...
www.mythencyclopedia.com/Be-Ca/Birds-in-Mythology.html

I have to say, I never really know what breed the birds are, I never really saw them.  All this while I only heard the cooing sound, and I assume they are either pigeons or dove.  And I should try to search for "myth pigeon feathers" if I want more info, but I'll pass.  Not interested, thank you.  I only searched for "dove" to verify the story which my friend told me - that doves are usually linked with angels and Gods for Christian.  I wondered: why dove?

I still haven't found the answer, and I don't intend to. 

What I can say is, based on the search results, doves are linked with love, holiness and healing.  But someone must have forgotten something - ALLERGIC REACTION!

Really, my body was itchy all over, and I was cranky the whole day yesterday because of it.  So much for love, huh?  And healing...?  More like causing illness to me!  Sheesh!