BUTTERFLY... БАБОЧКА...

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable,
butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.
And everyone deserves a little sunshine.

~Jeffrey Glassberg

"The butterflies were presumably one of the pleasures that awaited the deceased in the afterlife, reflecting the Egyptian belief in the immortality of the human soul."

Aristotle gave the butterfly the name psyche , the Greek word for soul.

Many cultures relate butterflies to the human soul. In ancient Greek the word for butterfly is "psyche" which means "soul", and was also the name of Eros' human lover.”
_{[Source: Manos-Jones, M. (2000). The Spirit of Butterflies: Myth, Magic, and Art. New York : Henry N. Abrams.]}

 

 

 I made this Butterfly earrings for my friend.

 I made this crochet blue butterfly earrings using

 100%Mercerized Cotton Yarn Thread "Iris Crochet Embroidering"

Hook 1.65mm/6

Size of this crochet butterflies approximately half inch by half inch.

 

 

 An Indian Butterfly Legend

If anyone desires a wish to come true
they must
capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it.

Since they make no sound, they can’t
tell the wish
to anyone but the Great Spirit.

So by making the wish and releasing
the butterfly
it will be taken to the heavens and be granted.

                                                                                                                                     ~Author Unknown

 

 “Butterflies are souls of the dead waiting to pass through purgatory.”
~Irish Saying 

 

 

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/chid490animalmourning/dragonfly-and-butterfly