Eight Triangles Division

A design featured in Elyjiw's Sixty Score of Easter Eggs with my own (non-traditional) coloration. 

My own design etched, then dyed black, on a duck egg. 

I have only come across a few examples of this division in books on Folk Pysanky. The division divides the egg in half down its length, an then divides the egg in fourths with diagonal lines. The triangles created often are isosceles triangles (depending on how round your egg is) and can be divided into increasing numbers of triangles. Another example appears here.

On these pysanky:

Triangles are powerful symbols in both pre-christian and Christian pysanky. They can represent the magical number in nature (mother/father/child, air/fire/water) or the Holy Trinity. Triangles with a circle in the middle represent the eye of God.

Pysanka 1:
The triangles have been filled in with hatch marks, effectively making them into baskets, which represent knowledge, motherhood, and providing for others. Each of these are connected by curlicues that look like ram's horns, which represent strength, leadership and creativity. Purple represents patience and waiting.

Pysanka 2:
This pysanky incorporates many eight-pointed star motifs, which represent the sun (the source of life and light) and the love of God. The ram's horns appear here, as well, and the God's eye is more apparent. Black represents eternity.