Sparrows

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Do sparrows symbolise anything?

[Clanad]

Sparrows were once depicted in sailor's tattoos to signify numbers of miles they had sailed. Seems one per 5000 miles. Additionally, prison inmates favored a sparrow tattoo with a banner held in its beak with the word freedom engraved. Finally, there is a religious significance. See Matthew 10:29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

[Octavius]

Apparently....

SPARROW: A symbol of freedom and humility because of it's envied freedom to come and go in the temple, and..

SPARROW: Was a symbol of Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of Beauty, Love and Pleasure who is fabled to have sprung from the froth raised by the genitals of Saturn, when cut off by his son Jupiter, and thrown into the ocean.

If you search google for 'sparrow symbolism' there are quite a few.

[MustafaTinkl]

Blimey, Clanad, the way you have written it makes the "religous significance" a bit obscure. Firstly, the coin referred to was actually called an "as" and it was with this that two sparrows could be purchased in the market. Secondly, the phrase is ""one of them shall not fall to the ground without the consent of your Father", with the meaning that God is involved in absolutely everything, however small. This underlying message is in fact one of good and most welcome news for those whose lives are controlled, as they see it, by the divine.

[scooby20_10]

It is a symbol of God and freedom.

[Peter Pedant]

Lechery

.....as lecherous as a sparrow