Also, please see "Flowers" for more symbolism of flowers related to the Beatles, the ultimate flower children.
Sun Flower: Referred to in "Free as a Bird", was worn by John in "Blue Jay Way", the Wizards caps in Magical Mystery Tour have Sunflowers on them, and Peter Brown stated that George put one on Brian Epstein's coffin when he was buried.
"As its name signifies, the sunflower has close solar
associations, not only because of its appearance, but because of its
habit of turning its head to follow the sun during its journey across
the sky. The sunflower has magical powers, too, and adorned the crowns
of Roman Emperors, thereby conferring the ruler with the potent power of
the Sun that the flower held within it. The sunflower was later adopted
by the Christian Church to denote the saints, prophets, and apostles; as
the flower follows the Sun, so the true believer follows God.
Greek
legend had it that a nymph Clytie and the Sun God, Helios, were in
love. but Helios cast aside poor Clytie for another lover. Clytie died
of grief and was transformed into a sunflower, destined to live alone
and having to follow the course of her former love. Therefore the
sunflower, as a symbol has adopted an aspect of Clytie's personality:
the inability to get over some the emotions or to "let go."
The
Seed head of the sunflower contains a magical symbol. It shows a
perfect example of the golden spiral that has been created naturally.
The shape is one of the cornerstones of sacred geometry." (ISS)
"
Sunflowers are symbolic of adoration. Sunflowers turn their heads to
the sun, which is the origin of their common name. Sunflowers belong to
the genus helianthus,
a reference to Helios, the sun god. [...] Sunflowers are native to the
Americas and are the state flower of Kansas and the national flower of
Russia. Sunflowers bloom from July through September. Sunflowers are
traditionally bright yellow with a central disk or reddish brown."
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"Ovid tells the tale of a nymph, Clytie,
who pined away for the love of Helios,the Sun, until she was
transformed into a flower whose face always turns to follow her love
through the sky. This heliotrope was probably not what we call the
sunflower, which is named for its appearance rather than its behavior,
but the sunflower has long been linked to the unrequited devotion of a
lover, or to the longing of the earthbound soul for its heavenly home. A
sonnet attributed to Dante laments the disdain of his mistress: ‘‘Nor
did she who turns to see the sun / and changed, preserves her unchanged
love, /ever have as bitter fate as I’. Blake’s evocative little poem
‘‘Ah! Sun-flower’’ takes the flower, ‘‘weary of time, / Who countes
the steps of the Sun,’’ as an emblem of ‘‘the Youth pined away with
desire’’and ‘‘the pale Virgin shrouded with snow,’’ who arise from their
graves. Blake may have been prompted by an account of the neo-Platonic philosopher Proclus,
who cites the heliotrope as a symbol of souls who long for spiritual
illumination. The same source seems to have led Bronson Alcott to choose
the name The Dial (i.e., sundial) for the journal of the
Transcendentalists."
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