Native Meaning: Transformation, healing, life-death-rebirth cycle

Jewish Meaning: Wisdom, healing (bronze serpent), hidden power

Netiv: Symbol of awakening, inner movement, and ancestral memory

Native Meaning: Communication with the Spirit World, prayer, honor

Jewish Meaning: Used metaphorically in Psalms for protection (e.g. “shelter under wings”)

Netiv: Sacred breath, divine connection, whispered legacy

Native Meaning: –

Jewish Meaning: Light, divine presence (Shekhinah), memory of the temple

Netiv: Light in darkness, ancestral guidance

Native Meaning: Balance, unity of earth and spirit, life cycles

Jewish Meaning: –

Netiv: Cosmic structure, sacred time, harmony in diaspora

Native Meaning: –

Jewish Meaning: Commandments, spiritual awareness, fringe of the tallit (prayer shawl)

Netiv: Threads of identity, fringes of memory, sacred responsibility

Native Meaning: Sacred presence, interconnection of beings

Jewish Meaning: Etz Chayim (Tree of Life), Torah, spiritual growth

Netiv: Rooted in spirit and earth, lineage and learning

Native Meaning: Heartbeat of Mother Earth, ceremonial call

Jewish Meaning: –

Netiv:  Echo of ancestry, invitation to prayer

Native Meaning: Cleansing, transformation, center of ceremony

Jewish Meaning: God’s presence (burning bush), light of Shabbat

Netiv: Catalyst of spirit, center of sacred gatherings

Native Meaning: –

Jewish Meaning: Silent, represents divine breath, origin of all sound

Netiv: Beginning of story, unity in silence and mystery

Native Meaning:  Life, community, wholeness

Jewish Meaning: Eternal nature of divine covenant, community cycles

Netiv: Wholeness, return, community without hierarchy

Native Meaning: Journey, vision paths

Jewish Meaning:  Spiritual weaving (e.g., challah, braided rituals)

Netiv: Interwoven identities, nonlinear belonging

Native Meaning: Healing, purification (sage, cedar, sweetgrass)

Jewish Meaning: Ritual cleansing (hyssop, myrrh, frankincense)

Netiv: Earth-based rituals, ancestral medicine

Native Meaning:  –

Jewish Meaning: Awakening, return, repentance, divine call

Netiv: Sound of return, call to memory

Native Meaning: Sacred land markings, history holding

Jewish Meaning: Tablets of the Law, memorial stones (matzevot)

Netiv: Carriers of truth, memory keepers

Native Meaning: Turtle Island — creation, land, Mother Earth

Jewish Meaning: Vessel of hidden holiness

Netiv: Sacred shield or inner tabernacle

Native Meaning: Fertility, medicine, community, and ceremony

Jewish Meaning: Abundance, righteousness, and sacred purpose

Netiv: Fusion of sacred ancestral wisdom

Native Meaning: Focus, protection, hunting, and the warrior spirit.

Jewish Meaning: Teachings about Kavanah (intention). Tension in spiritual striving.

Netiv: Inner journey of the seeker-creator: aiming with clarity, pulling from ancestral memory.