Purple Iris

Iris was a Greek goddess whose duty was to lead souls of women to the Elysian fields, a place of perpetual bliss on the western margin of the earth. In token of that faith, Greeks painted irises on the graves of women.

Though Christians would describe the details of the afterlife differently, we must admit that our words and images and expectations of the afterlife are also flawed, partial, and inadequate. But most of humanity seems united in the belief that beyond this earthly life, there is indeed something.