Animal, insect fish, etc., symbolism Every animal, insect, etc., that exist on earth, symbolic and representative of a certain theme of certain archetype, a certain expression of life, and of a dimension of you a certain caterpillar goes into a cocoon and comes out a radiant light butterfly, and this is symbol of the soul of the way it transforms transform the bee that gathers the honey beautifully working every moment of its life to work to gather the pollen and turn it into honey scorpion crawls across the desert and has its big pinching claws as well as it’s deadly poisonous tail learn to be like the scorpion to strike the spider that weaves its web, and then just waits for it to pray to fall into it sticky grasp, and then to wind the prayer up in a tight bundle the shark that ceases Praise ocean never sleeping always hunting the darkness sits calm and unruffled on the pond. Meanwhile, underneath his legs are kicking, and then it can dive down and grab Its food. You can walk on land they can fly you can float on water.
And each region has its own unique animals and creatures that live there, and one who lives as a native begins to commune with the spirit and the soul and the arc type of that creature, and with the name the animal nature collective
St. Bonaventure (1221–1274): “Creatures are shadows, echoes, and pictures … vestiges, likenesses, and spectacles of God … They are set before us as divinely given signs … This is the book of creatures, which by its visible things offers knowledge of invisible things.” Itinerarium mentis in Deum, ch. 2