>>21582674the (male) pinecone was the "fruit" of the tree of knowledge of good and evil - it is symbolized in art already shown in this thread but also as the tip of the thyrsus (or sometimes as an artichoke, used as a natural sweetener in antiquity)
in scripture, this caused the first death
it will be offered to mankind once again (pic related) and will be presented as a way to attain immortality, when it will actually bring about the second death
note that it is multicolored - as a reference to the rainbow, or the entity described in Revelation 10
