Pat Stamile from Sayville specializes in lilies that are purple and gold. He said about his purple and gold Sayville flower, "I grew up in Sayville and yes the colors were suggestive of the Sayville colors." and he created a flower of the "purest lavender" The reason why these flowers are so popular at wakes and funerals is because purple symbolizes death and gold symbolizes life. Jill Morton said "Purple symbolizes death" and "mourning." In "Visual Design: Color and Typography" by Amaris Vigil it said "purple symbolizes death." According to Hemat "Gold symbolizes reincarnation, the awakening of consciousness after the fall of the profane world. The indestructible metal stands for the center of spiritual being, for the freeing of the being from transitory existence to eternity. Gold symbolizes the sun, the sign of Leo, the god Apollo, the element of light."
Thus purple and gold stand for life and death.
The symbol of kings is purple and gold because the king has the power of life
and death over his subjects. F. Barnes wrote ""Purple and gold represents
royalty, as the antichrist presents himself." Purple represents dusk, gold
represents the sunrise. The lightning bolt, which is the symbol of Sayville
signifies instant
death. When asked the question "Is the purple and gold lily really the most
appropriate for funerals?" Pat Stamile said "Yes."
Thus, the Sayville purple and gold lily, with colors meaning life and death would be the most appropriate flower for a funeral.
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Pat Stamile: The world's top
lily hybridists.. His flowers can be seen at wakes all over the
world. According to a member at the Sayville Garden Club, the Sayville
Flower with its purple "is the most beautiful in the world." Another flower
he developed is called "Cast a Spell." Sunny Border said, "finest daylily hybridizer ever, Patrick Stamile" |
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Flowers of Paul Stamile from Sayville << Cast-A-Spell Web of Intrigue>> |
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Magic Amethyst |
 Sayville's
colors with the lightening bolt symbol. |
 The most popular color for the inside of coffins is purple. |
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"Lily Munster" was called "Lily" because the lily flower symbolizes death and is the flower traditionally used for funerals and coffins. Note she dresses in purple. |
Lilies for use on coffins, here the popular purple and gold mix on a casket. |
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Member of National Council of the State Garden Clubs, Inc., Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc. In the February 9th, 2004 meeting, our club had the owner of Purple Thumb Gardening give a speech about her business. The club meets at the United Methodist Church, all gardeners are welcome. |
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Sayville Garden Club member asks questions to Pat Stamile:
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All about funeral history. The
history of funerals is quite interesting. Information on the National Museum of
Funeral History. The National Funeral Museum is very interesting. Info on the
history of military funerals. Funeral history service. The origin of flowers at
wakes. Funeral rights and customs thought the ages, and in China, last rites for
the Chinese. Customs of Hindus, full details. Very interesting. Catholic last
rite services on Long Island, New York. The Rockville Centre Diocese on Long
Island, NY. Death and its rites in times past in the Victorian era, Egyptians,
Romans, and Viking. Roman pyres and the use of cremation. Complete list of
florists on Long Island, free fast delivery. Sayville Garden Club. Sayville
Florist. Sayville, Long Island Funeral Home. Pictures of lilies. Growing tips
for lilies and sources for seeds. Free information and pictures and photos of
the flowers. The history of buriels and wakes. Ancient burial rites of Romans,
Greeks, Celts, Egyptians, Jews, Babylonians, and Hebrews of ancient Israel.
Bouquets for caskets, low price with free delivery. Same day shipping to Long
Island, NY. New York, Suffolk County florist. Common burial customs from around
the world. he symbolism of purple and gold, and the demonic, occult lightning
bolt.
The arrangement to send cheap and delivery to buy online for home and
sympathy. Get a discount for child and spray order to online etiquette. Have
sympathy UK and quote to Las Vegas delivered for baby in the home by Snyder.
The florist braunfels are new for Florida and gruene plants are Jewish silk
flowers in California for delivery in shop at Jacksonville. Sorry the casket
for the family home is mound by Chicago and plants in California and Delaware
are preserved. Sayville funeral home. Raynor & D' Andrea Funeral Home of
West Sayville. Funeral rites of the Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Neolithic, bronze
age, copper age, and iron age. Also ancient Britain and the Viking. Early Indian
and Native American, Aztec, and Incan. Mummies of archaic people. Indians and
thier customs of the last rite. Information of very cheap, inexpensive
coffins and caskets. Crypts and cripts. New Orleans graveyards. The old custom.
Pine boxes. Leas boxes. The black riderless horse in Washington for the
presidential state funeral for the president. The Irish wake. Wierd, strange
tombstones. Caddillac in Texas buried sideways by Texan who was a millionaire
oil man. Weird, bizarre ceremonial for the dead, voodoo and Macumba ceremonies.
The weird ceremony in the church. Catholic priest.
The history of funeral service is a history of mankind. Funeral customs are as old as civilization itself. Every culture and civilization attends to the proper care of their dead. Every culture and civilization ever studied has three things in common relating to death and the disposition of the dead: Some type of funeral rites, rituals, and ceremonies A sacred place for the dead Memorialization of the dead Researchers have found burial grounds of Neanderthal man dating to 60,000 BC with animal antlers on the body and flower fragments next to the corpse indicating some type of ritual and gifts of remembrance. With no great psychological knowledge or custom to draw from, Neanderthal man instinctively buried their dead with ritual and ceremony. II. The Role of Fear Primitive man lived in a world of fear. He reacted to most natural phenomena such as weather events based on that fear. He eventually attributed many life events to his instinctive knowledge of a higher being or power. In his primitive mind, live and death events were the acts of spirits. Since he was not able to see or sense these spirits, he lived in a world of terror. In an effort to enact some type of truce with these "gods" or "spirits," man devised charms, ceremonies and rituals to placate these spirits. Although we may find ancient burial customs to be strange or in some cases repugnant, they obviously arose for a reason. The first burial customs then, were crude efforts to protect the living from the spirits which caused the death of the person. Fear of the dead caused the burning of bodies to destroy evil spirits. Many primitive tribes even today simply run away from their dead, leaving them to rot. Zoroastrians similarly allow their dead to simply rot or be devoured by vultures. They consider fire to be too sacred to be put to use disposing of the dead and burial is thought to be a defilement and injury to mother earth.