Genesis 1:26

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Face of the deep

The face of the deep (Genesis 1:2) signifies the lust of the unregenerate man, and the falsities that originate from it.

"Birds" represent rational concepts in the external man and intellectual concepts in the internal man.