The Olive Branch Sterling Silver Climber Earrings feature a timeless design crafted for style and everyday elegance.
 
Across cultures and history, silver has carried spiritual and symbolic weight as well as financial value. Sumerian and Egyptian artisans were working it into religious objects by the third millennium BCE, and Egyptians at times prized it above gold. Across many mythologies Greek Selene, Vedic Chandra, Celtic Arianrhod its cool white sheen tied it to the moon and to cycles of renewal.
 
The olive branch's association with peace traces to ancient Greece, where it was linked to Eirene, goddess of peace, and to a truce observed among all city-states during the Olympic Games; victors were crowned with wreaths woven from wild olive branches. Athenian myth holds that the goddess Athena won patronage of the city by gifting it the first olive tree, over Poseidon's saltwater spring, securing the tree's place as a civic emblem of wisdom and prosperity as well as peace. The symbol was absorbed into Abrahamic tradition through the Genesis flood story, where a dove returns to Noah's ark bearing an olive leaf as a sign that God's anger had passed.