I didn’t find out anything more about the funeral part of the name, but the Aegolius genus is named after one of 4 guys that tried to steal honey from Zeus. They all got caught, but the lady from all the Justice statues in courthouses told Zeus the cave was sacred so he shouldn’t kill them there, so he turned them into birds. Aegolius got turned into an owl.
I didn’t find out anything more about the funeral part of the name, but the Aegolius genus is named after one of 4 guys that tried to steal honey from Zeus. They all got caught, but the lady from all the Justice statues in courthouses told Zeus the cave was sacred so he shouldn’t kill them there, so he turned them into birds. Aegolius got turned into an owl.