Skull ButterfliesAround 350 BC, Aristotle made the first recorded instance of the word psyche in reference to mindset. He used a butterfly to explain it: He said caterpillars cocoons were like tombs. And the butterfly emerging from it was like the anima or soul. Fluttering free from the prison of the corpse after death. As far back as history goes, this same butterfly symbolism pops up in almost every culture and civilization: From Taoist writing in China to paintings