Postscript 15 May 2006

Already people are asking me if I made all this up. Here are credits, in order of appearance

snoedel.punt.nl
www.thetruereligion.org
www.discovervancouver.com
www.tibetinfor.com
Hamlet III, ii
word of mouth, Carlos Isla, 1976
personal email from Caltech scientist, April 2006
www.butterflyalphabet.com
The Scarlet Letter, Ch. XII
Biblioteca Academiei, "Manuscrisele Slave," p.706, footnote 1
"Dream of the Rood," line 55

The Old English word "gescaeft" (lit. shaped) probably should be translated as "Creation" rather than as "nature." The photograph of the butterfly wing by Kjell Sandved is copied from a version of the poster in my possession, signed by Sandved and dated 1989.

RH