MUERTE Y ESPERANZA
El significado simbólico mas usual de la flor, remite a la belleza y la fugacidad. Se la representa en numerosas naturalezas muertas moralizantes, sobre todo a partir del siglo XVII, para evocar la fragilidad de la vida humana, al margen de los cuales hayan sido sus placeres. Entonces a veces se recuerda las sombrias reflexiones de Job, "..el hombre nacido de mujer, vive poco y lleno de inquietudes, brota como flor y se marchita, pasa como sombra sin pararse...".
Por otra parte, al estar la vida terrestre considerada desde la perspectiva cristiana, como una preparacion para el más alla, la brevedad de la floracion, y su papel en el ciclo de la naturaleza, pueden tambien sugerir una simple etapa preliminar de la vida eterna. Toda flor seria.."jeroglifico de esperanza, y si como al ver flores, normalmente esperamos un montón de frutos, nadie duda de la flor anuncia el bien futuro".
LA ROSA Y SUS ESPINAS.

San Benito, fundador del monaquismo en el siglo VI, no conservo en su retiro mas que un pequeño rosal, para recordarle que si bien las flores acarician los sentidos, las espinas pueden mortificar la carne. Admitida poco a poco por su valor ornamental, que el Oriente musulman y Persa, supieron transmitir a Occidente, aceptada como homenaje en las tumbas de los santos, la rosa acabó por cristianizarse, hasta simbolizar en el siglo XII el amor espiritual.
EL LIRIO, LAS LAGRIMAS Y LA LECHE

La mitología tambien nos ha transmitido una narración en la que la aparicion de la flor blanca, siempre de origén femenino, constituye un lazo entre la tierra y el cielo, la Diosa Juno, habría dejado escapar dos gotas de su seno mientras amamantaba a su hijo Hércules, hijo de Júpiter. Una de ellas se convirtio en la via Lactea, la otra cayó en tierra y se transformó en lírio.
The most usual symbolic meaning of the flower, he sends to the beauty and the fleetingness. It is represented in numerous moralizing dead natures, especially from the XVIIth century, to evoke the fragility of the human life, to the margin of which there have been its pleasures. Then sometimes he reminds the shaded Job reflections to himself, ". the born woman man, lives through little and fully of worries, bud as flower and withers, passes for a shade without stopping...".
On the other hand, after there is the terrestrial life considered from the Christian perspective, like a preparation for further away, the briefness of the flowering, and its role in the cycle of the nature, they can suggest also a simple preliminary stage of the eternal life. Any serious flower. "hope hieroglyphic, and if as on having seen flowers, normally we wait for a heap of fruits, nobody doubts the flower announces the future good".
THE ROSE AND ITS THORNS.
Emblem of Venus, goddess of the love and of the beauty, the rose woke up the suspicion of the church of the first centuries, inclined to push back the culture and the pagan practices, for example the sacrifices of animals, in which the celebrant and the victim was adorned with roses crowns, can summarize of the opposition between the ancient world and the Christian thought, for the contrast, roses - crowns of thorns crown, on one hand the ancient idolatrous rituals, the gifts to the dead persons, and the taste for the luxury, for other one Christ's passion and the deprivation.
Benedictine San, founder of the monaquismo in the VIth century, did not preserve in its retirement any more than a small rosebush, to remind to him that although the flowers caress the senses, the thorns can torment the meat. Admitted little by little by its ornamental value, which the Moslem and Persian East, they could transmit to Occident, accepted like homage in the graves of the saints, the rose finished for cristianizarse, up to symbolizing in the XIIth century the spiritual love.

THE IRIS, THE TEARS AND THE MILK
According to the legend, Eva overwhelmed by the shame and the pain of having being expelled from the paradise, shed tears that, on having come to the soil, they transformed into irises. For this reason the same flower appears in the images of the Announcement, in which proclaiming the Redemption, it symbolizes on the contrary the immaculate purity of the Virgin. In the hand of the angel in Italy, or placed in a vase in Flanders, the iris, it can evoke the musical tone of the Announcement, thanks to its corolla in the shape of horn provided sometimes with three flowers, the branch remembers Maria's triple virginity, earlier, during and after the birth of the Child, as well as the Trinidad, - father, Son and Holy Spirit-.
The mythology also has transmitted to us a story in which the appearance of the white flower, always of origén feminine, constitutes a bond between the ground and the sky, the Goddess Juno, it would have allowed to escape two drops of its bosom while he was nursing its son Hércules, son of Jupiter.One of them turned into the Milk route, other one fell down in ground and it transformed in lírio.
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