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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sabre123, post: 4560945, member: 8258&quot;]Maybe [USER=5006]@kyratango[/USER] has some insight on the cicada, brother Komo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Random info from the web:</p><p><br /></p><p>The cicada was/is used as a supposed symbol for Aix-en-Provence, France.</p><p>----------------------------</p><p>Louis Sicard, a ceramicist based in Aubagne, was asked in 1895 by a wealthy tile manufacturer to make a typical provençal artefact as a gift for its business clients.</p><p><br /></p><p>He created a paperweight, a cicada sitting on an olive branch bearing Mistral&#039;s epigram (pictured top left). It was a huge hit and Sicard adapted it for brooches, vases and cups.</p><p>-----------------------------</p><p>The Imperial Chinese were fascinated with cicadas and regarded them as a &quot;promise of eternity&quot;.</p><p>-----------------------------</p><p>Cicadas feature prominently on provençal fabrics - les indiennes -, and jumbo pottery versions hang on the façades of houses to which they allegedly attract luck and happiness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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