Greek
Athena
The Greek goddess of wisdom, crafts and clever planning, whose bird is the owl.
Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, skilled craft and strategy. In myth she is born fully grown from the head of her father Zeus, often after Hephaestus splits it open with an axe (some tellings name Prometheus). She is linked with the owl and the olive tree, and she won the city of Athens by offering the olive tree against Poseidon's salty spring.
In the story of Arachne, a proud weaver who boasts she is better than Athena is turned into a spider in the best-known telling, though versions differ.