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Mourning

The meaning of grief for the dead. Attested as a COLOUR-DEPENDENT reading: the cited source assigns it to the black butterfly specifically, not to the butterfly in general.
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Medium confidenceresearched

1 attested1 source · T2

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The corpus has no enrichment row for this concept (symbols), so it carries its label, description, aliases and provenance and nothing further. No visual traits or cautions are recorded — not because they failed to load, but because that data does not exist in the corpus.

Provenance

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  • Butterfly Tattoo Meaning: Transformation, Colors & Styles (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    iNKPPL Tattoo Magazine

    Tattoo magazine meaning article. Verbatim: the butterfly is "a universal emblem of transformation, beauty, and spiritual awakening"; "In Ancient Greece, butterflies were associated with the soul and the afterlife"; "In Japan, the butterfly represents happiness, tenderness, and love."; "In Christian tradition, the butterfly is a symbol of resurrection and rebirth"; and "Black Butterfly – Symbolizes remembrance, mourning, and inner strength." CLAIM NOT USED: the same page asserts a single pan-'Native Americans' meaning. No edge was built on it - a trade magazine is not a competent source for a claim about hundreds of distinct living Indigenous nations, and reproducing it would be the tribal flattening at motif scale. Recorded here so the refusal is auditable.

    industry source · retrieved 2026-08-29

Related concepts

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  • ← incomingButterflyMotifAttested
    strength 0.50researched

    COLOUR-CONDITIONAL, not a property of the motif: "Black Butterfly – Symbolizes remembrance, mourning, and inner strength." A plain butterfly node asserting 'mourning' would be wrong.