Thanks to San Google and Santa Wikipedia for clarifying the "giant owl" reference for me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_GroveJones claimed that the Cremation of Care was an "ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony," and that the owl statue was Moloch. The Grove and Jones' investigation were covered by Jon Ronson in Channel 4's four-part documentary, Secret Rulers of the World. Ronson documented his view of the ritual in his book, Them: Adventures With Extremists, writing "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity: the Elvis impersonators, the pseudo-pagan spooky rituals, the heavy drinking. These people might have reached the apex of their professions but emotionally they seemed trapped in their college years."
Indeed, one cannot make these things up.
Interesting! A myriad of people, myself included, have a yearning for days gone by, i.e. wanting to relive their childhood, whether snatched from us or not, of which, fortunately, my desires are not due to any nefarious acts - that I recall... OTOH, goats keeps popping up in my psyche, more so since I joined this board.
Another case in point is that the sales of barn wood did not decline significantly during the last recession due, in part, to people with means wanting something - anything - to have in their homes (and businesses) to further continue eliciting their emotions of an earlier, less stressful time, e.g. no running water or electricity, albeit an oxymoron.
