• Raised from the bottom of the ocean, the pearl is a symbol of the moon, as it floats up out of the darkness of non-existence and shines with its matt sheen over the world.
• The upper half of the shell is associated with Heaven and the lower with Earth.
To a certain degree, the shell and the butterfly are contradictory symbols. The former is a symbol of the sea, whereas the latter is that of free flight. Give us wings and we will fly! Such is the age-long dream of going up and above the “ocean of life.”
• The early depictions of the universe showed the sun as the symbolic center, or the heart, of the cosmos.
• We see a couple in the incomprehensibly vast cosmic system that falls under the spell of the kosmokrator itself – the sun. Before leaving them, the sun is bound to look back, bestowing its own reflection upon the pair of lovers as a blessing.
“It takes a lot of perseverance for the diver to find that single perfect pearl on the bottom of the ocean. Similarly, it takes a lot of efforts to find the gift of love in the vast ocean of life.”
