Narcissa

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No: HPFGUIDX 78514

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Odile Falaise
<odilefalaise at y...> wrote:
> 
> And according to the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, p.
> 695:
> "...connection of this flower with the cults of the
> Underworlds... Narcissi were planted on graves.  They
> symbolize the numbness of death, but of a death which
> is perhaps no more than a sleep."
> How. Cool. Is. That.
> But wait!  There's more!  (Fanfic authors take note?):
> on p. 696: "...relates to the symbolism of water and
> the seasonal cycle, and in consequence to fertility. 
> This is the meaning of its ambivalence - death, sleep,
> rebirth."

Very cool. I've been far lazier than you in looking things up, but I
do know that lilies are also often associated with death as well,
particularly early death. Lilies have also been closely associated in
Christianity with Christ's death and rebirth, as well as white lilies
being important in Chinese culture, as white is the death color.

Thanks to all who mentioned all of the other flower-names throughout
HP.  But I still think these two are uniquely related in a dark
side/light side way somehow, now more than ever!

Entropy