Ladybird

[mothwing]

Enough whining. Let me treat you to a Ladybird and some other pretty things. 

 

I didn't know the Ladybird was also associated with Virgin Mary in Russia, but apparently, they also have a nursery rhyme about the Ladybird. The English one bears a strange resemblance to a  German nursery rhyme about the chafer, I wonder what the Russian one will look like. 

Hey, maybe it hit them when they were converted. In northern Germanby, the Ladybird used to be associated with Freya, that was changed to a Mary association with our conversion... I wonder what ladybirds were for Russians before they were converted.  

"(божья) коровка", the dictionary says. "Ladybird", but the components make up something like... "divine pull-cow"? Hm. Fertility?

Comments

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. The water on the leaves is amazing.

I'm having an interesting experience with Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I bought it well over a year ago and still haven't finished it. I pick it up, read a couple chapters, put it aside for a while, pick it up again, etc. Not because I don't enjoy it, but because I don't want the book to end.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

I think I know that feeling, Abby (although I didn't have it with this much as much as I had it with the Bartimaeus-series...)! Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell IS a really good book, and it's really a shame that Arabella has been abducted, I liked her a lot.

Can't wait to get home and go on reading it. :)