To become an insect To Reincarnate as an Insect
A Conga ant ( bullet ant) or a Kaingang warrior?		Countless people would like to transfer some of the supernatural power of insects to themselves. A good example are the Kaingang Indians of southeastern Brazil, who believe that the glory of their people is derived from being transformed into ants after death. As for the souls of young warriors fallen in combat, they could come back as beautiful giant Agrion damselflies with their lovely flight pattern.

Disturbing competitors
Even today, man continues to see the insect as something more than a mere animal. For millennia, our symbolic thinking has lent insects a perfection which we mistrust and yet envy at the same time. In a sense, all these myths and legends are our way of paying tribute to the insects and to their undisputed success as a living species.		A beetle lifting a twig bigger than it is.