There are many symbolic meanings associated with the butterfly. The Mandarin Chinese word for butterfly is "hu-tieh". "Tieh" means "70 years", therefore butterflies have become a symbol for a long life. In this culture butterflies have also become representative of young men in love. In the Japanese culture butterflies are thought to be representative of young maidens and marital bliss. Many Japanese families use the butterfly in the family crest design. Germany has a very unique belief about butterflies. As butterflies can often be found hovering about milk pails or butter churns, they have become associated with witches trying to steal the cream. The German word for butterfly is "Schmetterling", which is actually derived for the Czech word "Smetana" which means "cream". There are many links with butterflies in mythology from all over the world, many of which, in particular Greek mythology, link butterflies to the human soul. The Ancient Greeks also considered butterflies as the souls of those who had passed away.
In ancient Greek the word for butterfly is "Psyche", which translated means "soul". This was also the name for Eros' human lover and when the two figures are depicted they are often surrounded by butterflies. In one of the Russian dialects, butterflies are referred to as "dushuchka" which is a derivative of the word "dusha" also meaning soul. There is also an Irish saying that refers to the symbolic meaning of butterflies. This saying is: "Butterflies are souls of the dead waiting to pass through purgatory". There is a small town in Mexico that also associate butterflies with souls. It is to this town that Monarch Butterflies migrate every year, around the holiday known as the Day of the Dead. The people of this town see these butterflies as the returning souls of the deceased.
The butterfly symbolises a lot of different things to different people. The most common things associated with a butterfly are positive emotions: freedom, hope, love, joy and happiness are associated with the image of the butterfly because it is beautiful, flies in a whimsical fashion and feeds from nectar (sweet liquid) from flowers, which are also beautiful. However, because the butterfly lives for a short period of time and is very fragile and vulnerable, it can also symbolise impermanance, regret, sadness and death. When associated with the catapilar from which it developed and the chrasilys in which it transfoemed, it symbolises change and growth.
Butterflies show new life from the old. The butterfly also reminds Christians of the statement, 'born again' we become a 'new creation.'
new life and the emergence of indepence and growth.
a babe. Is signifies a babe...
Im thinking it could symbolise freedom and beauty.
Butterflies, they channge from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly ^^ cute
Butterflies symbolize a rebirth in Islam. In Islam dreaming about a butterfly is thought to symbolize that a person is near the end of their life.
It symbolise count olafs tatow
It symbolise the birth of Jesus
they symbolise everything
depends but in maori it can symbolise death
The verb of symbol is symbolise. As in "to symbolise something".
The verb form of icon is iconize. Which means to treat as an icon.
It is a province - in itself it does not symbolise anything.
The butterfly is a symbol of new life, as is the egg. Butterflies enter the cocoon as mere caterpillars, and emerge as beautiful, completely new creatures. They have to "die" as caterpillars in order to become something even better. Easter is about Christ's death and resurrection, and butterflies symbolise newness and beauty, overcoming death and ugliness to emerge victorious and free.
they don't symbolise anthing they are just chairs to sit on in a church