Tag: SYMBOL DICTIONARY
Oh, poor Hera. You spilt your precious milk and it created the stars across the sky.
Others say that the bright line of stars across the sky (which, I have to admit, I have rarely seen, being a good city girl), is the Night’s backbone.
So this above image is what the page for the symbol of the hibiscus looks like in my little Symbol Dictionary.
It’s a bit confusing.
Vrekkepani
The frangipani is an exotic, sweet-smelling, beautiful little flower. I wore fabric frangipani’s in my hair on my wedding day. My mother had a bouquet of frangipanis on her wedding day. For me there will always be this sweet connotation between the frangipani and the Bride. But.
besig
busy
“Worker bees are always female.” I read this statement as a child. But given what we know now about gender and that it is not binary, I have to question whether the little honey bees in my lavender bushes are female
Now the seal is a strange creature, in’it? Not particularly beautiful, yet graceful in the water. Playful. We look into the seal’s big black eyes and wish we could wrap ourselves in her skin, that we could rather gaze on the beautiful woman we perceive. We would entrap and enslave her, we would have her bear our children, perfect children, and we would tap all joy from her life to satisfy our own momentary desires.
“I don’t know if you’re aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native homes of the Congo, they only speak French?”
vreugde
joy
The very first set of paintings I had up at an exhibition in a real art gallery (as opposed to the community hall) contained a panel where a hummingbird and a dragon play a macabre tug-of-war
When I made my dragon box, I used a picture of the humble pangolin as the model for the scales
