An emailer has asked why my LINKS image is a butterfly for Easter. Good question - simple answer. The butterfly is sometimes seen as a symbol of resurrection because it emerges from its tomb-like cocoon to life - in all its beautiful glory. In some places the Cleopatra butterfly (pictured above) is nicknamed the Easter Jesus because it makes its appearance in the spring, around Easter. Here's a close-up, larger image of an Easter Jesus.
3/23/08
Links and Butterflies
An emailer has asked why my LINKS image is a butterfly for Easter. Good question - simple answer. The butterfly is sometimes seen as a symbol of resurrection because it emerges from its tomb-like cocoon to life - in all its beautiful glory. In some places the Cleopatra butterfly (pictured above) is nicknamed the Easter Jesus because it makes its appearance in the spring, around Easter. Here's a close-up, larger image of an Easter Jesus.
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When my niece/goddaughter was three or four years old, I gave her a butterfly garden for Easter. It was a net cage with some branch-like structure, and one mailed away for chrysalises. I heard several reports on the progress of the butterflies as they struggled, freed themselves, and then dried their wings in the dry Cambridge apartment air. Her dad took her down to the Charles to let the final flutterbyes go.
ReplyDeleteI preached no sermon with the gift. My plan was to let the idea of cycles of death and resurrection become instilled in her so they could be referenced later when she started coming to church with me. That's how I see my role as godmother -- to build the basic understanding about being fiercely loved, about how good it is to have connection between and among living creatures, how there is much more to reality than what we can perceive with our five senses or measure with our scientific tools. The details of how I name and celebrate those basics come now that she's older.
If she doesn't choose as I did, I think she'll make a great Buddhist! :-)