Nowadays there are so many and they reproduce in such a promiscuous way that they constitute a veritable plague in cities, to the point that in many places they are considered on the same level as rats.

Their cabal, chirping in the branches of the trees or shamelessly begging on the sidewalks, make them the perfect simile of those merry wives of Windsor, immortalized by the great Shakespeare, who participated, in some veiled way, in the hermetic philosophy of the Alchemy, which saw in them the allegory of the volatility of matter.

But in the Ancient World, the dove, as hateful as it may be today, had a superlative importance, since it was not only the representative bird of great goddesses of the Egyptian pantheon, such as Isis, but Christianity elevated it to the category of making it the Third Person of the Trinity, representative of the Holy Spirit, while for many Slavic peoples, as well as those defeated Visigoths, who also manifested their mathematical knowledge of the golden number in the basilicas that survived the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, they represented the human soul.

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