Re: swan design and symbolism for wedding engagement
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on July 1, 2001 at 15:26:59:
In reply to: swan design and symbolism for wedding engagement posted by Tracy on July 1, 2001 at 12:39:01:
: I was wondering if anyone has line design witha swan motif: and/or information on the symbolism of swans?
Websites with symbols and their meanings are linked off the page
linked below.
In the old mediterranean cultures, swans sybolized noble purity.
It was associated with Apollo, carried him across the sky and gave him
the gift of prophesy.
The swan supposedly forsees death (this: "swan song")
In German lore, virgins could be transformed to prophetic swan
maidens.
In the medieval period, it was the symbol of the hypocrite.
They sometimes symbolize feminine grace, and Aphrodite and Artemis
were accompanied by swans.
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