Are there any creation myths about butterflies?
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YUP... and here is the site where you can research...\n\nhttp://www.ariacd.com/ButterflyMyths.htm
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The most common metamorphosis in ancient mythology is a god or goddess changing themselves (or their appearance, anyway) into an animal of some sort, generally in order to fool a human.  Some of the stories are fascinating, like Leda and the swan, where Jupiter morphed himself into a swan, and Leda gave birth to an egg from which sprang the twins Castor and Pollux.  Apparently he managed to transform some of her basic functions too, for her to give birth to an egg!
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I hope these sites help you\n\nhttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm\n\nhttp://www.temple.edu/classics/oedipus.html
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With the flutter of a butterfly's wings somewhere around the world...the wings beating could stir up something in the air...causing a boar to snort...scaring up an entire herd of zebras... yada yada yada.  Basically something that simple can lead to a chain of events that cause something great or huge.  It kinda reminds me of the game six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
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Yep. Dragon legends are found in nearly every culture and in all parts of the earth, so I would say it's fairly likely that they legends and myths have at least some basis in truth, and that dragons and people lived on the earth at the same time.\n\nMore importantly, the Bible talks about a fire-breathing dragon in Job chapter 41, and I believe that the bible is true, so I have to accept as a fact that God created a type of dragon that spewed fire.\n\nFor further study on this topic, visit this site:\nhttp://www.drdino.com
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I always thought that it would be cool to have a comparative creation myth class. That would take a whole semester. I would be most pleased to have my children learn the Christian creation myth along with the Greek one (which is the one I subscribe too, though I'm an evolutionist), the Aborigine Dreamtime myths and a few Native American myths. They're all great stories. It would, of course, fall into the Humanities category. I would love to see the essays that came out of that class. \n\nBut I don't think anybody wanted a whole class on creationism. I think they wanted to have it inserted in the science curriculum somewhere, which is just silly.
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Wrong section to post this question.\n\nTry re-posting in Mythology and Folklore.\n\nPeace.
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About butterflies: (Are you familiar with the greek story of Demeter, Persiphone and Hades? ) Well if you're not it goes a little bit like this: Demeter (mother nature) has a daughter (Persiphone.) One day when she (Persiphone) went out for a walk, Hades (king of the underworld) fell in love with her and rose to the Earth and abducted her.Once in the underworld Hades fed Persiphone with a pomegranate (fruit of the dead) and so she bound to him forever!!! Demeter did not like what had happened and she was very sad and with her sadness nature began to die out. But Hermes (clever lower god) managed to get an agreement between Hades and Demeter in an attempt to save life on Earth! Persiphone would spend three months with Hades and the remaining nine months with Demeter (hence we have three months of winter--when Demeter is sad because her daughter has left her) \nSO, for your story, you could write about how Mother Nature created the beautiful butterflies as a gift to her daughter. The daughter had just recently gotten married and Mother Nature wanted her daughter to keep something of her so that she could feel her close. Mother Nature knew how her daughter loved rainbows and colours, and so she made them of beautiful colours, and able to fly so that they could dance in the sky and be an amazing sight to watch and be entertained by. Mother Nature wanted her daughter to take them back to her house. The daughter was very happy, but a short time later she was saddened when she found that the butterflies had not survived the trip. The next time she went to visit her mother, she told her of what had happened and so Mother Nature agreed to make more butterflies for her but this time she would keep them in a safe place until the next time she would return. ...\nor something like that....
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try this link:\nhttp://www.imagesfromnature.net/photos/butterflies/2001/pages/butterflies2001_009_m.html
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Yes, the Butterfly Effect and Chaos Theory are related. I think the Butterfly Effect is part of it.\n\nThe Butterfly Effect states that even those two events in the natural world appear identical, there are difference which can't be measured. However, those differences cause a divergence, which could lead to very different results. The effect is named after a fictional butterfly that flaps its wings in South America and it triggers a set of events which causes major storm in Asia.\n\nChaos theory is more involved in finding patterns in random events. This is really separate from probability and statistics. Chaos theory is very new compared to more older branches of mathematics, such as algebra, geometry and calculus.
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There are several verses in the Bible which start with a "b", but there is no mention of butterflies in the Bible.
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they are either butterflies\n\n\n\nThis butterfly's common name is an allusion to the polygamy formerly practiced by members of the Mormon religion. Harish Gaonkar, of the Natural History Museum in London, writes that "the origins of giving common English names to organisms, particularly butterflies for tropical species started in India around the mid 19th century ... The naming of Mormons evolved slowly. I think the first to get such a name was the Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), because it had three different females, a fact that could only have been observed in the field, and this they did in India. The name obviously reflected the ... Mormon sect in America, which as we know, practiced polygamy\n\n\nor an insect looking like a cricket\n\nThe Mormon cricket (Anabrus simplex) is a shieldbacked katydid, and not a cricket at all. They are large insects that can grow to almost three inches in length. Mormon crickets live throughout western North America in rangelands dominated by sagebrush and forbs. It is flightless, but capable of traveling up to two kilometers a day in its swarming phase, during which it is a serious agricultural pest
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I think the word YET needs to enter your train of thought. 10 years ago there was no evidence to suggest that the Archaeopteryx wasn't the ancestor of all birds, now we know more and find that there is something that pre-dates it. In 20 years time there might well be eveidence to pre-date it yet further.\n\nWho knows what will turn up? Do you think this find discredits the theory of evolution or is it just the established theory of the evolution of birds that, until more evidence is discovered, has been undermined?
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The many versions of creation stories are probsbly the easiest ones to find.  Also Santa/St.Nicholas stories should be easy.  I can't refer you to books by name, but many fairy tales particularly have several versions.\n\nLittle Red Riding Hood is a tale that has changed a lot in its history and development.  There are a number of versions of Beauty and the Beast - I guess even Shrek is a version of it.  The Twelve Dancing Princesses is another that has many versions.\n\nThe websites I've attached should help you.  Good luck with this project.
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It is a myth....a bedtime story.  The Earth was formed over millions of years.
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How about this version of the myth?
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we as humans have pulled apart and studied so many little things about creatures, humans, places. etc.. there is nothing left for the imagination.\n\nAlthough back in the olden times.  people could only go on what they felt and saw.  A lot of stories were made up (folklaw) to explain these happenings the best they could..  Some were written down others passed on though the generations. \nSome made a little nicer for kiddies stories.\n\nAlthough that doesn't mean all folktales are wrong or made up creations of people. \n\nI guess like myself, i believe in dragons.  yes they don't exist on this dimension and in the physical world to ours any more. \nBut they do visit from time to time. \nMuch like a Ghost or a Angel would.