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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Beautiful, Brendan, Thank You!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just the right vision for northern hemisphere
caterpillars to pull us through...!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>~ Ilse<IMG height=40 alt="" hspace=0
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<A title=mckeague@iprimus.com.au href="mailto:mckeague@iprimus.com.au">Brendan
McKeague</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:04
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Butterfly Dreamtime Story</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>G'day folks - I came across this marvellous story recently and
would like to share it with you - such wonderful imagery and symbolism from
indigenous mythology (dreamtime) for the role of butterflies in Open Space - I
couldn't resist passing it on....enjoy.<BR>Brendan<BR>in warm and sun-filled
Australia<BR><BR><BR><B>Birth of the Butterflies<BR></B><I>An Australian
Aboriginal Dreamtime Story<BR></I> <BR>When the world was young, the
birds and animals had a common language and there was no death. No creature
had any experience of its mystery, until one day a young cockatoo fell from a
tree and broke its neck. The birds and animals could not wake it, and a
meeting of the wise ones decided that the spirits had taken back the bird to
change it into another form.<BR><BR>Everyone thought this was a reasonable
explanation, but to prove the theory the leaders called for volunteers who
would imitate the dead cockatoo by going up into the sky for a whole winter.
During this time, they would not be allowed to see, hear, smell or taste
anything. In the spring they were to return to earth to relate their
experiences to the others. The caterpillars offered to try this experiment,
and went up in the sky into a huge cloud.<BR> <BR>On the first warm day
of spring a pair of excited dragonflies told the gathering that the
caterpillars were returning with new bodies. Soon the dragonflies led back
into the camp a great pageant of white, yellow, red, blue, green creatures –
the first butterflies, and proof that the spirits had changed the
caterpillars’ bodies into another form.<BR> <BR>They clustered in large
groups on the trees and bushes, and everything looked so gay and colourful
that the wise ones decided this was a good and happy thing that had happened,
and decreed that it must always be so. Since then caterpillars always spend
winter hidden in cocoons, preparing for their dramatic change into one of
spring’s most beautiful symbols.<BR> <BR> <BR><BR>* *
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