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mothwingEnough 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?
