What do the symbols and colors represent?
- Jules
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min read
Color Meanings
White: purity
Yellow: successful harvest, wisdom
Green: freshness and youth, innocence
Blue: magic and good health
Orange: power, ambition, endurance
Red: hope, passion
Brown: earth, harvest
Purple: faith, trust
Black: blackest time of the night
Symbolic Meanings
Star: success; even pointed star represents good fortune
Rose or Star: means love and caring. signify purity, life, the giver of light, the center of all knowledge as well as beauty, elegance and perfection.
Circles: protection.
Pussy Willow: Renewal
Flower: beauty.
Pine needles: represent eternal youth and health.
Evergreen is health, stamina and eternal youth.
Ladder: is symbolic of searching, or prayer
Heart: Love.
Dots: Dots of all sizes represent the stars in the heavens, tears or fixed points that have no beginning or end.
Birds: exemplify fertility and fulfillment of wishes.
Diamonds: indicate knowledge.
Never-ending lines or meanders: represent eternal life.
Netting: can represent Jesus fishing for men-it could also mean separating good from evil.
Sieve: A very common motif on the beautiful Hutsul pysanky. Is a symbol for dividing good from evil.
Basket: This ideogram suggests contained knowledge, motherhood as well as the giver of life and gifts.
Butterfly: is a naturalistic symbol denoting the Resurrection.
Flower wreath: symbolizes the rebirth of nature and life.
Fish: the symbol of Christianity, is associated with the story of Christ feeding the multitudes with just a few fish.
Plant motif: symbolizes the rebirth of nature and the cycle of life.
Birds: most birds signify the coming of spring.
Roosters: a masculine symbol, denote a rich married life and many children.
Hens: denote fertility, the bearer of the talismanic egg.
Straight Line. The straight line encircling the egg symbolizes eternity or the continuous thread of life.
Ribbon or Belt. This motif symbolizes eternity and is almost always seen in unbroken form so that the thread of life will not be broken.
Embattled Line. This variation signifies a forest or enclosure, something to be contained.
Engrailed and Invected Line. This suggests a place of meeting of union of opposites such as land meeting water.
Indented Line or Saw. This is a common line variation indicating fire as the symbol of the sun or life-giving heat. It may also represent water or waves with its growth and cleansing properties.
Meander. This ancient form of the line is popular in all regions of Ukraine. This motif emphasizes harmony and motion depicting infinity, waves and immortality.
Meanings and explanations of colors and symbols have been copied from Ukrainian websites and Pysanky books.
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