The Mill

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The Mill, which is placed on the highest level of the nativity scene together with Benino and Herod’s castle, has a double meaning – being a reference to time as well as death. The flour and the Miller are also references to death, as is the whiteness of snow and the colour white in general (which recall death and the world of the deceased).
The blades of the will symbolize first and foremost the Cross, but also time, which is suspended in the nativity scene. “Time stays still”, or in better words we have entered another dimension in time when the divine Nativity – just as eternity crosses paths with time and the Shepherd leaves his 99 sheep, or 99 worlds, on the Mountain – “bends the heavens and descends” to recover the lost sheep: the Man.
The Mill also makes reference to the Virgin Mary, recalling both the local worship of “Our Lady of the sieve” (a depiction of Mary dressed in white with a sieve in her hands) and that of “Our Lady of the mill”, which is based in Lugo.