Pomegranate hanging amulet

handcrafted made with plywood. 
Pomegranates have diverse cultural-religious significance, as a symbol of life and fertility owing to their many seeds but also as a symbol of power, blood, and death. Pomegranates symbolise fertility, beauty and eternal life in Greek and Persian mythology.

The Ancient Greeks considered the pomegranate to be a
symbol of fertility and associated it with the goddesses
Demeter, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Athena.

In Christian symbolism (Hieronymus) the numerous seeds in
this fruit represent the Church, unity in faith and a
community of believers; in the same vein, a pomegranate
appears in depictions of Mary as the Mother of the Church.

The Bible only mentions pomegranates in the
Old Testament. The hems of Jewish priestly vestments are
decorated with a stvlised of this fruit and - as such - a
pomegranate is a metaphor for the richness of the promised
land of Israel. In the Song of Solomon, Sulamith's cheeks are
compared to halves of a pomegranate.