As for the images, I chalk it up to layers because I do also see other beings as well, but it was the butterflies that grabbed me (if you can picture a butterfly grabbing someone).

The butterfly image symbolizes "the mother" to me. It was a spirit message relayed to me at several points along my merry path. And though "the mother" is quite a general title, as it has every right to be, it also is specific to me in meaning something akin to "the goddess".