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The Soul

The meaning of the immaterial self. Attested in an Ancient Greek context where the same word covers both the soul and the butterfly.
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2 attested1 source · T2

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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

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  • ← incomingButterflyMotifAttested
    strength 0.50researched

    ANCIENT GREEK CONTEXT. The source: "In Ancient Greece, butterflies were associated with the soul and the afterlife".

  • ← incomingEyeMotifAttested
    strength 0.25researched

    NEO TRADITIONAL CONTEXT, and an INVERSION of the usual reading rather than an instance of it: "In some Neo Traditional interpretations, the eye loses all human connotations and becomes a door to alien souls, devoid of feeling." Strength 0.25 records that this is one style's reinterpretation, not a general association.