Butterfly, Steele Creek Cemetery, Charlotte, NC
Butterfly and Caterpillar, Angelina Park, Mesopotamia Cemetery, Greene County, Alabama
Cocoon/Butterfly Metamorphis, Courtesy Richard Waterhouse, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA (1850)
Ascending moth (Luna?) on a tombstone in Puerto Rico. Photograph courtesy Kathe Deitzler.
Butterfly or Moth, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
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Butterfly or Moth
Symbolic of resurrection - the caterpillar, the chrysalis, and then the butterfly or moth.
The moth, attracted to light, ascends in its final flight toward Heaven. The moth sometimes symbolizes a short life.
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