This is the only frescos frieze repeated for two different  pictures:1] the boxing children,2]the antelopes...

       The position of the bodies in the boxing boys could be similar to THAI boxing: both boys' feet,

seem to participate in the fight*..Also we can notice the blue color of their raised heads...

          The antelopes ,or the antelope, whose image its reflected in the water,  is one of the most moving frescoes of Akrotiri...

          Also here, we can feel a certain aggressiveness, to probably verify the artist's will to paint the reality emotions: positive as life or negative as death, emotions dominate our behavior, in order to survive, love  ourselves, or love the others.

           Love is the feeling of life ...

          Our symbol here is the blue (heart shaped) leaves, the common characteristic of two different plants:

                   The Common Ivy and the grapevine…Both plants use in shamanistic medicine could explain way in a Boetian Amphora of 700 bC, the heart was painted instead of the head, in the image of the goddess, with a fish painted in the womb..

       

                                                                                 

          The heart symbol of “ IMPERATRIX”, in the TARROT cards**, is additional evidence of this prehistoric

   consideration, that Mediterranean  cultures still preserve: to think with their hearts***.

         

In fact common Ivy the sacred plant of Aphrodite – Venus, or the grapevine symbol of Dionysus or Bacchus both touch our emotional function in a way that ancient civilizations consider as divine…

         It is said that the worshipers of Bacchus confused the grapevine leaves with those of the Ivy…

        The heart shape leaves of Ivy, personification of Aphrodite, becomes the sacred plant of Dionysus before its worshipers

transform it to grapevine, so to continue its shamanistic traces up to nowadays…

         Wine, “warm the cockles of somebody’s heart” we still   say in Greece…    

         The Greek priests presented a wreath of Ivy to newly-married persons, and the Ivy has throughout the ages been regarded as the emblem of fidelity. The custom of decorating houses and churches with Ivy at Christmas was forbidden by one of the early Councils of the Church, on account of its pagan associations, but the custom still remains.

        Today this symbol being Saint Valentine's love, is  one more  evidence that the prehistoric symbols survived society transformations to remain as cultural values of  the Mediterranean civilizations...