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Butterfly, butterflyfly in the sky butterfly, butterfly flies so high butterfly, butterfly lands on my thigh butterfly, butterfly motionlessly lies butterfly, butterfly gracefully dies Adryan Bates Butterflies belong to the Lepidoptera family. They have always represented lightness, metamorphosis and the free spirit of Mankind. Egyptians: Butterfly has a symbolic meaning, represents the spirit which leaves the dead. Egyptians were very fashinated by its three vital stages: a transformation after an other, the caterpillar dies in the motionless chrysalis, which born again as adult butterfly, able to fly and to rise on the sky. Greeks: Also for the Greeks, there was a symbolic lead butterfly - spirit: an old world psyche was employed to indicate either the soul and the butterflies; nekydallos, word which indicated the chrysalis, is composed of the root nekys, i.e. "died", perhaps to mean the death in becoming pupe. Romans: Romans used to say "animula", little soul, which testifies, once again, the deep link between butterflies and the spirit. Russia: Still today in Russia, to indicate the butterflies, the dialectal word dushichka, which literally means "small soul". Christians: Christian religion, wants the butterfly as symbol of the soul, as its lightness and its incostance. In the imagery, butterflies represent also resurrection. American Natives: The butterfly is the symbol of the lawsuit of transformation which carries towards the things of a higher order. Japan and Orient: The butterfly represents the femminility and the harmony of all things. Here you have some drawings to paint, free for you! ![]() ![]() ![]()
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