The phrase often refers to the malleability of human kind:
The ability that we all have to transform and be transformed by the many experiences we
endure throughout our life. Also, it is an allegory to the creation of man from the
group by God and the making of Adam. It is also the precursor to the phrase "from dust
you come, to dust you will return", as the clay packs that same ethereal dust from
which man was supposedly created.
It also pays tribute to
the fact that we are not the strongest, nor the toughest, nor the most perfect. We are
simple creatures...made of clay. It is a call to humbleness, a remembrance of our
imperfections, and a reminder that all that we may destroy, we can create
again.
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