Symbols - What does heaven look like
Moth [insect]
A moth is a fully enlightened person, one who is free of the Earth and is able to symbolically ‘fly’ in the Air [or higher]. It shares some symbolism with birds. In contrast with a butterfly, the Moth is 'of the night' it is a black shaman.
One of the more intriguing aspects about a moth, both actually and symbolically, is that despite it being 'black', it is attracted by the Light.
See Butterfly and moth for extra symbolism. Other related symbolism can be found in the descriptions for the caterpillar and chrysalis.
Observations
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- Attar, Fariduddin - The Dullard Sage
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Moths and the Flame
- Baudelaire, Charles - Hymne à la Beauté
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - The Phoenix
- Castaneda, Carlos - Wheel of Time - Describes rebirth
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Buttons and Rosettes
- Ernst, Max - Und die Schmetterlinge beginnen zu singen
- Laura Kennedy: Night-time visions of monsters in my room seem normal – at the time
- Mare, Walter de la - The Moth
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Describing the night and cognising the heart 02
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Discourse 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 01
- Qu'ran - The End of the World - Surah 101 & 102
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 01 From the Introduction
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 3908
- Yassawi - 02 HIKMET 1
- Yassawi - 06 from HIKMET 10
- Yu Xuanji - Farewell