I'm not religious, so I think it represents love and faith in others, as well as imagination and optimism. It's through the eyes of a child, and in the beginning the adult can't see it. It's a person sharing their love of life and innocence with those who have already lost them.
Yesh. I do agree with that - but the reason I felt it represented God was because of that.
It was the innocence of the child chasing the butterfly, carefree, curious, and full of awe.
It was the Butterfly Dragon leading the child on a journey, silently watching, always slightly out of reach, across a chasm.
^That's where I felt most that it was religious (though it could be any mentor, really). The little mousething jumps across the chasm even though she can't make it. Then the Butterfly Dragon dives and catches her as she was falling, and gently places her on the cliff.
Like a mentor/God challenges you until you are about to break, then catches you and pulls you up again.
In the end, when the Dragon gives her the mask, it's like spreading the word, passing the baton, giving her the responsibility to become a bearer of love and truth and innocence, as well as a challenge to others.
Did you notice at the end, the mouse-dragon was different than the original?
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