The four basic rows means fire, air, ocean, land. The right hemisphere means male and the left female. The up hemisphere means gods and the down humans. The surround 12 rows means the 12 main Greek Gods of Olympus.

The Macedonian Sun — Ήλιος της Βεργίνας — is the Vergina Sun with 16 rays. This ancient Greek symbol, the Vergina Sun, is commonly used from the ancient times up to today in Macedonia region in Greece, as well in other parts of ancient or modern Greece and Hellenistic regions.

Early representations of the symbol go back to at least the 6th century BC, with hoplites depicted as bearing sixteen-pointed and eight-pointed sunburst symbols on their shields and armor and the same symbols being represented on coins from both island and mainland Greece from at least the 5th century BC. The Iliad describes the first panoply of Achilles as having star motifs.

Manolis Andronikos found the symbol on the Golden Larnax believed to belong to Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. The "sunburst" symbol was already well-known as a symbol used widely in Hellenistic civilization. The symbol might represent the Sun god (Helios), whose role as a patron deity of the Argead dynasty might be implied by a story about Perdiccas I of Macedon narrated by Herodotus (8.127).

The Vergina Sun is an official state emblem of Greece.