The classic tradition of writing pysanky, the ornate decorating of Easter eggs dates back over 1,000 years. The present day symbolic ornamentation of the pysanky consists mainly of geometric motifs. The most important motif on the batik decorated egg (psyanka) is the stylized symbol of the Sun, seen as a broken cross, triangle and aneight-point rosette or a star.
–William W. Lawrence Sr