Wreath

Garlands decorating a frieze with bucráneos.

A garland is a wreath open at one end, made of flowers, branches, or leaves. This is also the name given to the woven strip of flowers and branches that form a circle. In Roman temples they appear decorating the space between the horns of a bucranium.

Etymology

The origin of the word comes from "guirlande", which in turn comes from the Italian "ghirlanda", a braid.

Types

• Beads or beads.
• Of flowers (such as "Poo Maalai" tamil:,,, "hoovina maale" will sing:))))
• The Hawaiian Lei the traditional garland of Hawaii
• Of pine
• From popcorn and/or red blueberry
• Of strings
• Spy
• Floor climber

In poetry

Garlands appear in numerous poems, including La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats.

In the Bible (English Standard Edition), Proverbs 4:9 describes wisdom as: "She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown." What translated would be: "she [wisdom] will place a graceful garland on your head; she will give you a beautiful crown".

In the 1913 novel The Golden Road, The Golden Road, by Lucy M. Montgomery a "fading garland" (fading garland) is used as a metaphor for the sunset of life or aging in general "[...] Did she realize in a flash of prescience that there was no earthly future for our sweet Cecily? Not for her were to be the lengthening shadows or the fading garland. The end was to come while the rainbow still sparkled on her wine of life, ere a single petal had fallen from her rose of joy. [...]&#3. 4; (Chapter XXX).

In the 1906 children's book The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit, the garland is also used as a metaphor: "Let the garland of friendship be ever green." "Let the garland of friendship be evergreen."

In India

In India, where flower garlands play an important and traditional role in all festivals, Hindu deities are decorated with garlands made of different fragrant flowers (often jasmine) and leaves. Both the fragrant and non-scented flowers and religiously significant leaves are used to make garlands to worship Hindu deities. Some of those flowers are as follows: Jasmine, Champaka, Lotus, Lilies, Ashoka, Oleander, Chrysanthemum, Rose, Hibiscus, Pinwheel Flowers, Manoranjitam etc.