Pavoncella

"Two of the most recurring symbols in Sardinian weaving are the pavoncella (top) and people dancing ballu tundu (bottom). While the second has always been referenced as an apotropaic ritual, the first has uncertain origins, maybe bringer of luck or fertility"...

I want to thank @DrWatson_writer for posting this very interesting info 

This is very interesting indeed. The top symbol consists of two birds facing yellow flowers growing on a tree. This is a common tree of life symbol and usually the animals facing the tree of life are animal calendar markers for the fertile period of the year....

Soooo:

The birds look like peacocks, which are "birds of rebirth". But the word "pavoncella" doesn't mean peacock. It means Lapwing. One of these cute fellows...

And in Sardinia depictions of lapwings are everywhere...

And in Sardinia lapwings are regarded as the symbol of "fertility, abundant rains and health of the flocks"...Why?

On the page "Checklist of the birds of Sardinia" we find that Lapwing is a migratory bird which spends winters in Sardinia...

And it is the rain that falls in Sardinia, between the arrival and the departure of the Northern Lapwings (Autumn, Winter, Spring) that makes Sardinia green, creates and supports (the tree of) life in Sardinia...And supports the flocks...

And so pavoncella, the fertility symbol, the symbol of rebirth (of nature)...

The guys at the bottom dancing ballu tundu are probably just celebrating the arrival of rains...

I guess...🙂

To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…then check the rest of the blog posts related to animal calendar markers I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...