Now this mytake is snippets from different websites, I'm just getting really into symbolism and would love to teach others. I'm trying to learn more :)
Long a symbol of love and passion, the ancient Greeks and Romans associated roses with Aphrodite and Venus, goddesses of love. Used for hundreds of years to convey messages without words, they also represent confidentiality. In fact, the Latin expression "sub rosa"(literally, "under the rose") means something told in secret, and in ancient Rome, a wild rose was placed on the door to a room where confidential matters were being discussed.
Each color offers a distinct meaning: red, the lover's rose, signifies enduring passion; white, humility and innocence; yellow, expressing friendship and joy; pink, gratitude, appreciation and admiration; orange, enthusiasm and desire; white lilac and purple roses represent enchantment and love at first sight. The number of stems in a rose bouquet can also express specific sentiments. June is National Rose Month.
To Native Americans in many western tribes, wild roses were a symbol of life. Paiute, Nez Perce, and Interior Salish people believed that wild roses kept ghosts from causing harm to the living, so they were often placed in the homes or clothing of people who were in mourning or felt haunted. Wild roses were also sometimes attached to cradleboards to bring vitality to infants. In some tribes, rose motifs were used in quillwork, beadwork, or other Native arts to represent survival and vitality as well. Wild roses also played a role in traditional Native American herbal medicine, and rosehips (the fruit of wild roses) were eaten as food in many tribes, either directly or as part of a pudding.
These true wild roses are all single with exactly five petals — never more, and almost all of them are pink, with a few whites and reds, and even fewer that range toward yellow.
(Below is a snippet of a poem I linked below so feel free to look up the full version)
“”Seven petals for seven tribes
growing on the trail
where they cried.
Center of gold
for the land white men stole.
Four thousand
of my ancestors died.
The trail was long,
the journey harsh
native-american-totems.com/ plant-and-mineral-totems/ plant-totem-rose/
https://www.teleflora.com/ meaning-of-flowers/rose
https://www.native-languages. org/wild-rose.htm
https://www.manataka.org/ page1630.html
**Both of the rose photos are mine, that I took :)
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