Title: Grave Stone Meanings ! Post by: Medusa on June 22, 2009, 04:48:55 am Grave Stone Meanings Anchor/Ships - Hope or a Mariner Arches - Victory in Death Arrows - Mortality Bird - Eternal Life Bird flying - Resurrection Book open - Teacher Bible open - Minister Bouquets flowers - Condolences, grief, sorrow Broken column - Loss of Head of family Bugles - Resurrection or Military Butterfly - Short lived, Early death Candle being snuffed - Time, Mortality Cherub - Angelic Corn - Ripe old age Cross - Emblem of faith Crossed swords - High ranking military person Darts or Coffin - Father time Gentleness, Affection, Purity Flying birds - Flight of the soul Fruit - Eternal plant Garlands - Victory in death Hands shaking - Farewell Harp - Praise to the Maker Hearts - Soul in bliss or love of Christ Horns - The Resurrection Hourglass - Swiftness of time Hand of God Chopping - Sudden Death Hourglass with wings - Time flying, short life Imps - Mortality Ivy - Friendship and Immortality Lamb - Innocence Laurel - Fame or Victory Lily or lily of Valley - Emblem of Innocence and purity Morning glory - Beginning of life Oak leaves & acorn - Maturity, and ripe old age Palm branches - Signifies Victory and Rejoicing Picks & Shovels - Mortality Poppy - Sleep Portals - Passageway to eternal life Rings broken - Family circle severed Rose bud - Morning of life, renewal of life Rose fully opened - Prime of life Roses - Brevity of earthly life Shells - Pilgrimage of life Stars & Stripes on Eagle - Eternal vigilance liberty Thistles - Remembrance Tombs - Mortality Torch Inverted - Life extinct Tree Stump with ivy - Head of family Immortality Trees - Life Trumpeters - Heralds of the resurrection Urn with Blaze - Undying friendship Urn with wreath/crepe - Mourning Weeping willow - Emblem of sorrow Wheat sheaf - Ripe for harvest, divine harvest, time Willows - Earthly sorrow Winged Effigies - Flight of the soul Title: Re: Grave Stone Meanings ! Post by: gryffen on August 12, 2009, 08:53:59 am We have a cracking graveyard up in Culross - mainly a plague town where 80% of the population are buried under gravestones - like this :
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4DzLbV79i7g/SlosamMZGjI/AAAAAAAAXrc/Oc5etbYLpOU/s400/Photograph+Skull+and+Crossbones+Gravestone+Old+Churchyard+Dollar+Scotland.jpg) Imagine nearly a whole acre full of gravestones like that - very haunting Title: Re: Grave Stone Meanings ! Post by: Medusa on August 12, 2009, 02:13:52 pm We have a cracking graveyard up in Culross - mainly a plague town where 80% of the population are buried under gravestones - like this : (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4DzLbV79i7g/SlosamMZGjI/AAAAAAAAXrc/Oc5etbYLpOU/s400/Photograph+Skull+and+Crossbones+Gravestone+Old+Churchyard+Dollar+Scotland.jpg) Imagine nearly a whole acre full of gravestones like that - very haunting AHHHH WOW babes that looks wicked............. Would lov to go and see that place hehehehehe Where's my invite hehehe Medusa Title: Re: Grave Stone Meanings ! Post by: gryffen on August 12, 2009, 04:29:52 pm Lass - open invite!
Culross is great - East Weymms is the local coven area - ceremonies happen in the middle of the graveyard next to a little boys tomb (read below topic about it). Kirkcaldy (where im from- and yes - that plonker Gordon Brown!) same highschool tooo =( Pitlochry, Aberfeldy, Kinlochleven - Straven - soooooooooooooooo many! Title: Re: Grave Stone Meanings ! Post by: Medusa on August 12, 2009, 05:36:53 pm Hey babes You are not gonna believe who I just spoke too......................blast from the past ? No very sadly not my baby "dragonrider" Venus ! She just joined FB Her and Neff are both doing well Wow thats was really weird and good to hear from her O0 Medusa |