When I was a teen and until I was married to my ex actually, my friends and family always called me Butterfly. It was a sudden thing, actually, and I couldn't figure out why. I was probably 15 when this started. I'm 24 now. When I was 17 I was allowed to get a tattoo of a butterfly on my left upper arm. I wasn't the religion I am now, but I still have it.
What is the symbolism behind it and possible reasons they nicknamed me that? I wasn't extremely social, I was pretty quiet. I wasn't running around and stuff, I was pretty much a quiet person who spoke her mind. Any ideas?
2007-11-28 03:49:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As someone else said (quoting Hannibal the cannibal), a butterfly represents change, or growth, or a blossoming. Perhaps your family saw you grow into a beauty, or blossom intellectually.
Or possibly someone called you Butterfly, liked the way it sounded, and continued to call you that so often that everyone else picked up on it.
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2007-11-28 03:59:57 · answer #1 · answered by Stranger In The Night 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Butterfly: metamorphosis and transformation Scientific research has shown that the butterfly is the only living being capable of changing entirely its genetic structure during the process of transformation: the caterpillar's DNA is totally different from the butterfly's. Thus, it is the symbol of total transformation. Butterfly represents a need for change and greater freedom, and at the same time it represents courage: one requires courage to carry out the changes necessary in the process of growth. Its Medicine is related to the air and the mental powers. It teaches us to find clarity in the mental processes, to organize projects or to figure out the next step in our internal growth. If Butterfly is your Power Animal or if you feel in any way attracted to it, this means you are ready to undergo some kind of transformation. Examine which stage calls your attention the most: the egg is the beginning, the birth of some project or idea. The larva is de decision to manifest something in the physical world. The cocoon has to do with "going inside", either through insight or the development of the project or idea. The breaking of the cocoon deals with sharing the splendor of your creation with the whole world. Once you understand the stage you are on, you can discover which is the next step. Possibly they named you that because you were like a butterfly, beautiful and delicate.
2016-05-26 05:24:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People give people cute nicknames, things that are lovable or pretty. Butterflies are pretty. I think you're reading a lot into why someone gave you the name. One person gives a nickname and other people catch on.
As for butterflies, I suppose they could represent new life. They go into their cocoon as a little caterpillar and come out as a butterfly and fly away.
2007-11-28 03:57:17 · answer #3 · answered by Little Red Hen 2.0 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there wow...butterflies are special to me also. It depends on the culture you look it. In some Asian cultures, butterflies symbolize marriage. To many, they symbolize the soul. So that when they see a butterfly, it represents someone's soul to them. But most of all I think they represent spiritual transformation. From the chrysalis of earthboundness to spiritual transformation when they become the butterfly. A very powerful symbol and totem really. Maybe you are called butterfly because that is your symbol, and maybe perhaps because you are so gentle and sweet to others.
2007-11-28 04:01:17 · answer #4 · answered by An Independent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Butterflies symbolize that nothing ever dies...it just changes. What the caterpillar calls the end the butterfly calls the beginning.
2007-11-28 05:20:29 · answer #5 · answered by Ahmad H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the late 60's and into the 70's, the thing expounded on butterflies was their "freedom"...have you never heard that "Butterflies are free"
It came about because the flit about so effortlessly, they are beautiful, and they appear to have no concerns with this world other than flitting from one place to the next.
2007-11-28 03:55:39 · answer #6 · answered by RT 66 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hannibal Lector said the significance of the butterfly is change---from larva to chrysalis, and thence to beauty.
2007-11-28 03:54:26 · answer #7 · answered by Michael M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Often butterflies are used to symbolize transformation (from caterpillar to butterfly), or rising from a death-like state.
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2007-11-28 03:55:40 · answer #8 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insects?
2007-11-28 03:55:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
caterpillars with pilots' licences
2007-11-28 03:55:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋