Folklore surrounds these six animals and their connection to death. Learn more about where the stories come from.
In folklore, animals are depicted as messengers, symbols, or omens. Many of these stories are similar in cultures throughout millennia and feature, and the unexplained. The animals mostly related to symbols or omens of death are scavengers, nocturnal, or associated with negative events.
Animals are associated with symbolism because they are part of the natural world. When we started looking at nature to learn about the environment, we began to look at the natural world for omens. "There's a tradition of people looking to nature and interpreting signs in nature as though were speaking directly to them," says Magliocco., Egyptians imagined Anubis this way because jackals often roamed cemeteries feasting on the flesh of the deceased.
Chinese cultures see the insect's process of emerging from the ground as an analogy of the dead rising into eternity. According to the National Museum of Asian Art, during the Han dynasty, cicada-shaped hade amulets were placed on the tongues of corpses.means the soul of the dead. The mythology of Psyche, a mortal woman released from death by the god Zeus, who gave her immortality inspired the meaning. On Greek pottery and in mythology, Psyche has butterfly wings.
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