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With their radiant, pristine wings, white butterflies are a symbol of purity, innocence, and healing—both physically and spiritually. Common white butterflies include the Cabbage White ...
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The scales on butterfly wings are pigmented with melanins that can produce the colours black and brown. The white colour in the butterfly family Pieridae is a derivative of uric acid, an excretory product. [13] [40]: 84 Bright blues, greens, reds, and iridescence are usually created not by pigments but through the microstructure of the scales.
The earliest Buddhist art is from the Mauryan era (322 BCE – 184 BCE), there is little archeological evidence for pre-Mauryan period symbolism. [6] Early Buddhist art (circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) is commonly (but not exclusively) aniconic (i.e. lacking an anthropomorphic image), and instead used various symbols to depict the Buddha.
In the English county of Devon, people once hurried to kill the first butterfly of the year, to avoid a year of bad luck. [28] In the Philippines, a lingering black butterfly or moth in the house is taken to mean a death in the family. [29] An Ancient Greek myth tells of the cithara player Eunomos ("Mr Goodtune"). During a competition, the ...
The existence of a painter-butterfly would be played out on the countless celestial bodies which, after death, should be no more inaccessible to us than the black dots on maps that symbolize towns and villages are in our earthly lives." [6] When in need of solace, nature is where Van Gogh went to find peace.
In works of art, literature, and narrative, a symbol is a concrete element like an object, character, image, situation, or action that suggests or hints at abstract, deeper, or non-literal meanings or ideas. [1] [2] The use of symbols artistically is symbolism. In literature, such as novels, plays, and poems, symbolism goes beyond just the ...