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Secret symbol of the followers of Oscar Wilde, love between two men white: Sweet and lovely, innocence, pure love, faithfulness [4] pink: A woman's love, [6] a mother's love; I'll never forget you [4] yellow: Rejection, disdain, disappointment; [5] [4] pride and beauty [8] purple: Capriciousness, whimsical, changeable, unreliability [4] mauve ...
Human beings, observing the growth and death of trees, and the annual death and revival of their foliage, [1] [2] have often seen them as powerful symbols of growth, death and rebirth. Evergreen trees, which largely stay green throughout these cycles, are sometimes considered symbols of the eternal, immortality or fertility.
Fufluns, god of plant life, happiness and health and growth in all things; Liber, cognate for Bacchus/Dionysus; Nemestrinus, god of the forests and woods; Ops, goddess of fertility and the earth; Pilumnus, nature god who ensured children grew properly and stayed healthy; Pomona, goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards
The Beautiful Symbolism of Butterfly Tattoos, Revealed—Plus, 11 Inspiring Butterfly Tattoo Ideas. Kelsey Kryger. November 5, 2023 at 8:06 AM ... Butterflies have long served as powerful symbols ...
The Tree of Liberty has been a symbol of freedom since the French Revolution. As a tree of life, it also symbolizes continuity, growth, strength and power. In the 19th century, it became one of the symbols of the French Republic, along with the Marianne and the sower. Since 1999, it has been featured on French one-euro and two-euro coins.
The boy Buddha appearing within a lotus. Crimson and gilded wood, Trần-Hồ dynasty, Vietnam, 14th–15th century. In the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Buddha compares himself to a lotus (padma in Sanskrit, in Pali, paduma), [3] saying that the lotus flower rises from the muddy water unstained, as he rises from this world, free from the defilements taught in the specific sutta.
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Maia embodied the concept of growth, [13] as her name was thought to be related to the comparative adjective maius, maior "larger, greater". Originally, she may have been a homonym independent of the Greek Maia, whose myths she absorbed through the Hellenization of Latin literature and culture .
[4] [5] In Asian cultures, [6] the sacred lotus is used as a symbol of growth towards perfection and enlightenment as it is rooted in the mud at the bottom of the pond, but rises and blooms above the water. [7] In Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism, the pose is also called the "vajra position" (Skt. vajrāsana, Ch. 金剛座 jīngāngzuò). [8] [9]