Sign symbolism

• Circumflex pointing upwards: like a cut tree, symbol of death
• Circumflex pointing downwards: pruned branches, like a tree whose sap you want to save to fortify it: symbol of introspection
• Wide vertical line at nose level: symbol of combat, confrontation
• Two curves between the two eyes and at cheek level: symbol of family, group, tribe.
• Upper eyebrow: mark of certainty
• Forehead area: reflection, meditation, knowledge, what is above spiritually as well as physically
• Fully colored chin: symbol of absolute, primacy, the ground, the nurturing bark
• Point under chin, downward: symbol of seriousness, gravity, something deeply implanted in the ground
• Lines starting from the eyes obliquely outward and downward : like stylized traces of tears that would have run down the mask, acceptance, renunciation
• Colored underside of mouth, with vertical sides: birth of something, beginning, entrance
• Complete turn of eyes: gaze, intention, projection
• Horizontal lines: sign of intangibility, permanence, infinity
• Horizontal lines that aren't complete: traces, memories, things that mattered, that aren't forgotten but are less poignant. Shapes that aren't quite flat can indicate intentions
• Mouth turn: expression, communication, sociability
• Shape flaring upwards: symbol of growth, expansion, flowering (like a growing tree)
• Oblique lines on cheeks, widening downwards: roots, origins, nourishment (like roots)
• Mark under tongue with rounded base: fecundity, birth, fruit (like a seed that has grown)
• Round/oval mark under mouth: origin, potential, hope (like a seed)

Color symbolism

• Yellow: reflection, experience, judgment, heredity, those from whom we learn, inherit (the yellow of autumn, those who will die to make way, Mats: amber)
• Green: family, descent, those who carry the inheritance, the filiation we beget, the trace we leave (like the green of spring, Mats: sap)
• Red: the color of passion, will, commitment (the flower or fruit, that which fertilizes)
• Black: the color of coal, the end of life, of a cycle (humus and ash)
• Blue: brothers and sisters, equals, identical, those we rub shoulders with (seeds, Mats: seed)
• Violet: the color traditionally associated with the Zoraï people, it can signify tradition, the people, ancestors, Zoraï culture or power
• Pink: delicacy, fragility, softness but also unknown, secret, inaccessible ( Prime Roots flowers)
• Brown: protection, solidity, construction, appearance (Mats: bark)
• Orange: color of fruit; maturity, nourishment (phyic and spiritual), pleasure
• White: color of snow, dormancy, potential, but also of ash, which is the negation of the cycle of life, which reduces to nothing the vital circles, what remains after the passage of Fire. And of course also the color of Jena, of light.