The Spirit of Butterflies: Myth, Magic, and Art Review

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(More customer reviews)Every culture known to man throughout the rise and fall of civilizations, has carried a myth or symbol about the butterfly. Evidence of this includes the myth of Eros and Psyche, ancient Mycenean gold relics, wall ornaments of Teotihuacan in Mexico, the Japanese paintings, the Native American legend. This book captures the collective ethos of this powerful universal symbol well. It is well-illustrated.
So, what does all of this mean? Why is it such a recurring and powerful symbol in the collective psyche?
The spirit of the butterfly is the transformative symbol of the regeneration of love which can fly. Love gives you the wings to fly, to be free. This notion of the beauty of love with its gossamer wings, is something that is more precious than anything, for it allows one's heart to open within it where the seed may be born to flower. This flower may blossom fully into joy beyond one's own conscious power to imagine. The seed that may open up and spring up within one's heart can be a form of transformation that does last forever. This is a form of one's own opening to a current within one's own being, a current that can magnetize others when it is fully open. That power to magnetize is something that we are all born with, but that few seldom realize because they are not open to their own feeling in their heart of being free and at one with others.
That is what this book is about and why it is meaningful in capturing the essence of a universal symbol.


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This work combines myth, legend, poetry and art to explore the ways in which humans have perceived the butterfly. It chronicles the appearance of butterflies in history, including butterfly goddesses in Minoan Crete and Toltec Mexico and the dances of native Americans and Africans.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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