In general, a lot of symbolic importance has been given to winged animals, and always very much in accordance with their morphology. The dove in particular, is considered a symbol of peace, purity and spirituality and always opposed to the attributes of the eagle and the hawk. He offers us two different facets. In Minoan times, the prehellenic civilization of Crete had been associated with carnal love, and in Greece, with the goddess Aphrodite (Venus for the Romans), although today we still retain expressions such as “my little dove”. In the Old Testament, Noah, at the end of the flood, sent three doves into the sea and one of them returned with an olive branch in his beak. Since then it is a sign of peace and reconciliation with God (remember that the flood was sent by God to punish humanity). In Christian iconography, it represents the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. In the Bible we find reference to the descending dove, as the Spirit of God in the baptism of Jesus Christ, Saint Mark 1:10 (at the moment of coming out of the water, the sky was ajar and the Spirit of God in the form of a dove descended on Him ). In the illustration we see the dove descending, representing the Spirit of God that invades man. The rising dove represents the immortality of the soul. We have reference in the account of the martyrdom of Saint Polycarp in which a dove left the martyr’s body at the moment of his death. The ascending dove is also used as an emblem of the resurrection and symbolizes the soul of the righteous who rises towards God, thus seeking unity with the Divine consciousness. We can define that the descending and ascending dove represents the oscillation between human consciousness and Divine consciousness.