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Position:Home>Visual Arts> What does a sand dollar symbolise?Question: What does a sand dollar symbolise!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have heard it means money!. also it is a symbol of the complexity and simplicity of life!. you have heard that there are two sides to a coin!? that's what I mean, that opposites complete each other and are related!.!.!.so it takes both pos and neg to make a complete whole!. Similar to yin/yang philosophy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Legend of the Sand Dollar THERE'S A PRETTY LITTLE LEGEND THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TELL OF THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF JESUS FOUND IN THIS LOWLY SHELL IF YOU EXAMINE CLOSELY YOU'LL SEE THAT YOU FIND HERE FOUR NAIL HOLES AND A FIFTH ONE MADE BY A ROMAN'S SPEAR ON ONE SIDE THE EASTER LILY ITS CENTER IS THE STAR THAT APPEARED UNTO THE SHEPHERDS AND LED THEM FROM AFAR THE CHRISTMAS POINSETTIA ETCHED ON THE OTHER SIDE REMINDS US OF HIS BIRTHDAY OUR HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE NOW BREAK THE CENTER OPEN AND HERE YOU WILL RELEASE THE FIVE WHITE DOVES AWAITING TO SPREAD GOOD WILL AND PEACE THIS SIMPLE LITTLE SYMBOL CHRIST LEFT FOR YOU AND ME TO HELP US SPREAD HIS GOSPEL THROUGH ALL ETERNITY Sorry about all the caps, but I didn't want to fix the cut & paste!. I remembered seeing postcards with this on the coast!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Doesn't symbolize anything----a sand dollar is a living, breathing organism on this planet (of the sea variety) I happen to think they are very pretty!!. Www@QuestionHome@Com |