What its the mythological difference between a moth and a butterfly? All the books I have read just clump them together. I like moths. They are so cute.
I like moths too. don't know that there's too much on either of them in ancient myths, or rather, their differences per se. the fact that one is diurnal and the other is nocturnal is sort of interesting. one is like a winged night dream, the other like a bright daytime idea.
>>17497942
do you know the difference between a day trip and a night trip? a journey where you get to know yourself. Spirit trips. There is a safety in the sun's burning rays that there is not in the moon's dripping light.
I'm gonna say that since most people who created common mythologies aren't the smartest they didn't even notice a difference between the two. Same form, same life cycle, same habits. One just comes out more often at night.
Butterflies weren't on Jodie Fosters lips in the Silence of the Lambs.
Is there a spiritual concept behind moths? I had a dream that a large white moth was in my kitchen and was trying to talk to me.
>>17499745
Yeah it means you need a life
>>17497932
You mean biological difference.
Symbol of That Which Can Be Attracted
“Like a moth to a flame” is a cliche used to denote the extent which something is able to be attracted to something else. If a certain fishing lure is being touted as a fantastic fish-catcher, the advertiser will say, “Fish come to it like moths to a flame.” This symbol stems from the physical attraction moths have to a light source.
Omen of Good Luck
Butterflies apparently have a great deal to do with luck, both good and bad. “In Louisiana it is thought that good luck will follow shortly after a white butterfly flies into your house and flies around you.” However, the same action is an omen of death in Maryland.
Soul
Butterflies are souls of the dead
waiting to Pass through Purgatory
The butterfly symbolizing the occurs in numerous cultures over many centuries. Perhaps the most prominent association of the butterfly with the soul is with Psyche.
The myth of Psyche originated in the Orient. A Myth said the Rhetors (mere talkers) is “an untrue narrative representing truth.” This myth is a good example of approaching “profound realities of Nature by poetic intuition.” “Its secret sense shows through thanks to the symbolism of the butterfly.”
By her beauty, Psyche has aroused the jealousy of Venus. She had seduced Eros himself. Carried away by Zephyre into a flowery valley. She lived there in a dream Palace. Each night she greeted there a lover that she was not supposed to see. On the false-hearted advice of her sisters, giving in to curiosity, she came once with a lamp, to see the one who shared her bed. A drop of oil fell on the god who took flight. Thus began the terrible afflictions from which the unfortunate one could escape only thanks to the complicity of Love. When she had surmounted them her wedding was celebrated in Olympia and she was admired at the banquet of the gods.
Now in Greek, Psyche signifies at the same time soul and butterfly. The myth was interpreted by playing on this double sense. It became the story of the soul touched by divine love, but which, by reason of the mistakes made, must undergo some tribulations before having access to happy immortality. The night butterfly [the moth] attracted by the flame, like the soul attracted by heavenly truths, burns in the flame, reflection of the trials that must be endured to eliminate the fleshy sink-stones before knowing the joys of the beyond.
The work of George Hoefnagel (1542-1601) attempted to illustrate sacred texts using symbols. Many of his works contain caterpillars and butterflies, symbolizing man and his soul.
Moths are creepy as any lovecraft
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>>17500555
In México a black butterfly is a death omen
