[ES/EN] Mariposa. / Butterfly.

#Butterflies are one of the most interesting #insects on the planet. There are more than 165 thousand species divided into 127 families!

Las mariposas vienen en todas las formas, colores y tamaños. Si bien las más conocidas son las mariposas diurnas, la mayoría de las especies son nocturnas y pasan muy inadvertidas.

Butterflies come in all shapes, colors, and sizes. Although the best known are the diurnal butterflies, most of the species are nocturnal and go very unnoticed.

They attract for their #beauty, for the liveliness of their colors, for their #wings that look like flower petals, for their #elegance when flying, for their freedom. It is fascinating to know that, before, as far as they should think of another life, they had another body, which were worms, caterpillars, that crawled without being able to fly. He fascinates and disturbs his metamorphosis, thinking about the death of one appearance to revive in another, as if reincarnation were possible even in the same life, as if the same soul could inhabit different bodies.

La mariposa simboliza el alma humana. En muchas culturas, la mariposa es una metáfora del alma que ha adquirido cierto grado de consciencia: ya no es oruga ni nunca lo volverá a ser, ha vivido una metamorfosis irreversible. Y en su nuevo estado, rodeada de seres que aún se arrastran mientras ella necesita volar, aún desafiando leyes, está condenada a la soledad.

The butterfly symbolizes the human soul. In many cultures, the butterfly is a metaphor for the soul that has acquired a certain degree of consciousness: it is no longer a caterpillar nor will it ever be again, it has experienced an irreversible metamorphosis. And in her new state, surrounded by beings who still crawl while she needs to fly, even defying laws, she is doomed to loneliness.